Gordon Cook wrote:
>accurate ellen?
>
Yeah, the second part of my question (implied in the article) was why not
give the new ELECTED board members a chance to weigh in on this
controversial issue. Esther's disingenious response was as quoted in the
article.
To which I responded, with all due respect (cough), I think they should be
entitled to an opportunity to speak for themselves.
Unfortunately, the only newly elected members who responded were Amadeu and
Jon Cohen, who both vigorously support the UDRP. I cannot fathom why
Pindar Wong or Ken Fockler or the others didn't use this opportunity to
pursue the question, or even to present their own views on this matter.
ICANN deftly avoided allowing the first elected board members to have a
policy voice in one of the most controversial issues facing the corporation.
>
>Rony asked -- as have many, many others -- why
> the "interim" board was in such a rush to
>pass the UDRP. Dyson, ICANN's Chairman of the Board,
> countered that the outcome would have been
>the same anyway because "the new board members are
> in fact more representative of big moneyed
>interests than the original [i.e., interim] ones." That's not
> very comforting; nor is the fact that the
>quip is absent from ICANN's official "scribe's notes" [23]
> but present in the video [24].
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