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

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2002-05-28 07:05:45 -0400, James Love wrote:

>Governments, at least in the US, often have open records laws.  
>The UK is trying to enact an open records law.  These apply to  
>government organizations, for good reasons.

Overly broad regulations of that kind are also frequently  
short-sighted, and may have unintended side-effects: They may imply  
that the choice is not between an open and a closed record, but  
between an open record and no record at all.  Closed records mean,  
of course, less accountability than open ones.  No records imply no  
accountability at all.

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Thomas Roessler                        <roessler at does-not-exist.org>