> .... This is the unholy alliance that gave us the ICANN board.
We still do not know who was part of that alliance, what criteria they
used to select the candidates for the initial board, and what quid pro
quos were made among those doing selecting.
(We've been assured that those selected made no agreements, but the
question is rather what agreements were made among those who did the
selecting itself.)
There are those among us who are still alive and who know the answers to
these questions. But they steadfastly refuse to answer. All we know is
that one highly paid senior partner in a major law firm claims to have
acted merely as the naive errand boy who had no knowledge of his mission
or even who sent him on his rounds. And now we see that same law firm
being, by far, ICANN's single largest creditor.
And considering that ICANN instantly entered into fairly lucrative
agreements[*] benefiting at least two people who are rumored to have been
involved with that less-than-immaculate conception, there is plenty upon
which to question the circumstances and to suggest the existance of hidden
deals.
I personally would consider the evidence to paint a picture that is the
opposite of an immaculate conception.
[*] These two agreements have an average run rate of about $114,000 per
month for ICANN's first 8 months of existance. These numbers are computed
directly from ICANN's "Statement of Finacial Position June 30, 1999".
--karl--
