Fw: [ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN approves new bylaws that eschew public elections

Harold J. Feld hfeld at mediaaccess.org
Fri Nov 1 00:18:39 CET 2002


and what financial damages do you allege for qui tam jurisdiction?

Plus the government was not unaware of the "fraud", if any.

Harold

todd glassey wrote:

> FYI -
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Chiu" <CCHIU at aclu.org>
> To: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:29 PM
> Subject: RE: [ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN approves new bylaws that eschew public
> elections
> 
> 
> 
>>Todd--that's a good question, and it's not clear whether these ICANN
>>structural changes constitute a breach. This issue would definitely be
>>
> worth
> 
>>raising on the Discuss list.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Christopher Chiu
>>Technology Policy Analyst
>>American Civil Liberties Union
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: todd glassey [mailto:todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:03 PM
>>To: Chris Chiu
>>Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN approves new bylaws that eschew
>>public elections
>>
>>
>>Chris, was the awarding of the NTIA contract specific to the structure of
>>ICANN, or the services that ICANN promised to put in place, because if it
>>was, then ICANN would perhaps potentially be in breach which would open
>>
> them
> 
>>to a qui-tam liability...
>>
>>Todd
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Chris Chiu" <CCHIU at aclu.org>
>>To: "NCC Discuss list (E-mail)" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:09 AM
>>Subject: [ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN approves new bylaws that eschew public
>>elections
>>
>>
>>
>>>ICANN's Board of Directors has approved controversial new bylaws in a
>>>
> 15-3
> 
>>>vote. Under this revised system, ICANN will no longer hold direct public
>>>elections for Board seats, but instead will have an official Nominating
>>>Committee and several Supporting Organizations each select Directors.
>>>
>>>See
>>>http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/#highlights
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>>Christopher Chiu
>>>Technology Policy Analyst
>>>American Civil Liberties Union
>>>
>>>
>>>_______________________________________________
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>>>Discuss at icann-ncc.org
>>>http://www.icann-ncc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>>
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