[ncdnhc-discuss] Community Communications to US Department of Commerce on ICANN Evolution and Reform

[kent at songbird.com]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:51:54PM -0400, t byfield wrote:
> apisan at servidor.unam.mx (Mon 09/02/02 at 10:27 AM -0500):
> 
> > just for facts:
> 
> just for facts, alejandro, ICANN has a *long* history of not publishing
> material critical of ICANN.

Just for the facts, there is an infinite amount of stuff that ICANN
doesn't publish, critical and non-critical. 

> the ur-example is the SBA letter that eric
> menge announced at the MDR meeting in 1998. when i pestered dyson about
> it, she claimed they hadn't posted it because ICANN didn't have the re-
> sources to do so -- they didn't have a webmaster, she explained. later,
> touton informed me that it had in fact been posted: as an MS Word docu-
> ment unlinked on any other page on the site, so if you didn't have the
> URL you wouldn't be able to find it. there are many other examples. it
> would be too boring to delve into them.

You're right about that.  Must be a slow day digging for slingable mud, 
eh? :-)