[ncdnhc-discuss] Board retreats and fully transparent process for ICANN

[Dave Crocker]

At 07:46 PM 5/27/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
>Dave, you might check with your local city government to see what a good set
>of open meeting and open records laws look like.

1.  Although some local governments do have rules that require NO closed 
meetings, I suspect that is not the norm.  At a minimum, it calls to 
question the basis for insisting that the ICANN board be prohibited from 
meeting in private, as you seem to desire.

2.  As has been typical, the matter of scaling is being ignored.  City 
governments cover few people and small areas, compared with the scale that 
ICANN must deal with.

3.  As has been typical, the matter of operations administration is being 
ignored. City governments do not worry about direct operations 
administration, as ICANN does.  Neither do the international agencies that 
you cite.

So we again have a solid indication that concerns about ICANN are about 
fantasies that does not exist, rather than about the actual organization 
that does and the actual tasks it is concerned with.


>    Most of these sessions are public,

Most?  Not all?

Oh, then you must object to them, since you are demanding that ALL ICANN 
board meetings be in public.

d/

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