(From Patrick Corliss) ..................................................................... F - ELECTED ICANN DIRECTORS LOCKED OUT OF ANNUAL MEETING PARTICIPATION A subtle procedural change means ICANN's newly elected At Large board representatives will be mere observers at this year's Annual General Meeting in Los Angeles next week. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4724 ...................................................................... There is nothing unexpected about this, at least for anyone who sees ICANN for what it really is and who has beenwatching its activities without rose-colored glasses. As I said months ago, before the At-large elections, ICANN will most likely never allow the at-large directors to sit on the board. ICANN passed a new bylaw, before the election process, which gives the entrenched board the power to completely annul both the at-large directors and the at-large membership. There is no longer any reason at all for ICANN to permit a disruption of its agenda by at-large directors. Karl Auerbach and the other at-large directors have, in my opinion, been living in a fool's paradise no different from that of all the other persons who have allowed themselves - as much from a desire to become part of a bureaucracy and for media exposure as for a desire to effect change - to be co-opted by ICANN. Joining ICANN, by opposers of its policies, means their neutralization and nothing more. Michael Sondow Michael Sondow ================================================================= "Lawyers come to think of administrative law and the administrative process as significant and worthy of study only in those areas where private interests think it worth their while to demand protection. As a consequence lawyers seeking for their clients elaborate procedural protection modeled on the judicial process may, in an excess of generalizing zeal, induce legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts to extend such procedures into areas where they are alien and inappropriate." -- Jaffe & Nathanson, "Administrative Law" ================================================================= INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INDEPENDENT INTERNET USERS http://www.iciiu.org (ICIIU) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel(718)846-7482 Fax(603)754-8927 =================================================================
