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>>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 4 00:36:34 2000
>Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 00:35:59 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ronda Hauben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: about the Federal Procurement Contract for ICANN
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>Letter sent to Teresa Reefe at NIST to protest Federal Procurement
>Contract being used to Privatize Public Resources
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>Dear Teresa
>
>I am curious about the use of a federal procurement contract to give
>away government held public resources to a private sector corporation
>like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
>
>This seems an inappropriate use of a procurement contract and there
>doesn't seem to be an appropriate authority to give public resources,
>especially crucially important infrastructure resources like IP numbers,
>the domain name system, and the protocols organization into the
>ownership and/or control of a private sector corporation via the kind
>of contract that the US government uses to purchase goods and services
>for government entities.
>
>Can you explain why this is the means of privatizating such crucial
>public resources?
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>I offered one of the proposals for how to determine an appropriate
>form for the care and administration of these crucial public resources
>to the Department of Commerce before the ICANN proposal was submitted.
>
>My proposal did not get any serious attention by any Dept of Commerce
>official. Instead they awarded a design and test contract to ICANN.
>The activity of ICANN has not been of a "design and test" nature
>as they cut off discussion and limit public imput into their process.
>Interim board members were selected by some secret process that has
>yet to be made public. And they are taking over the control and potentially
>ownership of a vital public resource without any public process or
>legitimate procedures.
>
>If the process were indeed a design and test process, my proposal would
>have been accepted.
>
>Thus can you please accept this as a protest of the award of public
>resources to ICANN under a contract drawn up for totally different
>purposes.
>
>I also want to protest that ICANN is not carrying out any design and
>test activities under their current memorandum of agreement with the
>Department of Commerce.
>
>And I want to ask that you inform me of what procedures I have
>available to me to challenge how public property and resources are
>being taken from the public and given to ICANN.
>
>Sincerely
>
>Ronda Hauben
>244 West 72nd Street Apt 15D
>New York, N.Y. 10023
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>(212)787-9361
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