(from the ICANN website) http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-review-update-01nov00.htm > ICANN UPDATE - TOP LEVEL DOMAIN (TLD) APPLICATION REVIEW <snip> > It is important that persons having financial interests in the applicants > not be involved in making selections among the applications. Accordingly, > the members of ICANN's Board of Directors (who will vote on the selections) > and its officers and employees (who will be advising the Board on the > selections) have reviewed whether they have any relationship to applicants > or applications that would make their participating in the selection > inappropriate. Based on this review, the following persons recused > themselves prior to their consideration of any application: > > Person's Name Reason for Recusal > Amadeu Abril i Abril Relationships with CORE and Nominalia, which are > participating in various applications. > Rob Blokzijl On Advisory Board of CentralNic, a company which was > involved in preparing one of the proposals as a technical advisor. > Greg Crew CEO of partly owned telecom subsidiary of Melbourne IT, > which is participating in several applications. > Phil Davidson Employment by British > Telecom, which supports the .one application What about Ken Stubbs, the President of CORE and the head of the Names Council, as well as the Registrar Constituency's rep to the NC? (Or has Mr. Stubbs stepped down temporarily from the NC so that he can help push the Afilias application along?) What about Roger Cochetti, the gTLD Constituency rep on the Names Council, who is also involved in Afilias, if not all the applications for new gTLDs, as Network Solution, Inc.'s man in ICANN? How many more of ICANN's directors, committee members, and staff will profit from the new gTLDs? How much more fraud and corruption is ICANN going to engage in before the government and the courts put a stop to this, so that the Internet can survive? Michael Sondow ================================================================= Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both. --- 18 U.S.C. � 1001(a)(1) ================================================================= International Congress of Independent Internet Users http://www.iciiu.org (ICIIU) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel(718)846-7482 Fax(603)754-8927 =================================================================
