Subject: ICANN: Stomping on Thin Ice

From: Bob Allisat <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2036 01:35:58 -0500 (EST)

Declan McCullagh* wrote:
> Magaziner will meet Thursday with ICANN board
> members, including chair Esther Dyson and
> counsel Joe Sims, a lawyer at Jones, Day, Reavis,
> and Pogue. Dyson said no plans to change the
> bylaws are in the works. "I don't know of any
> plans to change that," she said Wednesday. 
> 
> "We'll go over there. We'll listen to what they
> have to say," Sims said. 

 You'll listen to them? Does this
 Sims fellow understand what this
 is all about? This is another 
 example of the arrogance these
 people demonstrate aty every turn,
 towards everyone outside their
 magic ICANN circle. If Sims is
 lucky he'll only get his ass kicked 
 out of the White House into the
 street.
 
McCullagh* continues:
> During the open meeting last week in Cambridge,
> Massachusetts, the board said it would strive for
> transparency, but it refused to open meetings to
> the public. 
> 
> Hans Kraaijenbrink, a board member who is
> chairman of the European Telecommunications
> Network Operators association, said directors were
> entitled to their "privacy." During a conference call
> last month with the Boston Working Group and
> Open Root Server Confederation, Dyson pointed
> to the amount of grandstanding in Congress as a
> reason to keep meetings closed. 

 Kraaijenbrink wants his privacy?
 Dyson discribes Congress as grand-
 standing? Does anyone else find
 this surreal and unbelievable?
 The exact nature of "Newco" has
 not been determined by the USG
 and, more importantly, has been
 almost universally panned as
 overly secretive, undemocratic
 and basically illegitimate. Dyson,
 Sims, Kraaijenbrink et al are
 strolling onto pretty thin ice.
 Let them stomp some more.

 Bob Allisat

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* http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16356.html