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

[Barbara Simons]

Dear Dave,

My questions were addressed to Alejandro, not to you, although if you know
the answers, I'd be pleased to hear them.  The questions are quite
straightforward and simple, and were in response to Michael Froomkin's
comments that ICANN posts only material that is favorable to ICANN and
suppresses that which is unfavorable.

Since Karl's Congressional testimony was critical of ICANN, I thought that a
good counterexample to Michael's claim would be to find that ICANN had
posted Karl's testimony.  But, when I searched ICANN's website, I could find
no hint that Karl had even testified, let alone a copy of his testimony.
Therefore, I repeat my friendly questions, questions that were not addressed
to you, but rather to one of Karl's fellow Board members.

I think these are pretty simple questions, especially question 1 which
requires either a "no" - which, alas, I fear is the correct answer - or a
"yes" together with a set of links and hopefully a date.

Dear Alejandro,

1.  Did ICANN ever post Karl Auerbach's Congressional testimony?  If so,
when was it posted and what is the url?  Was Karl's testimony ever announced
on the top level page?  Is it reachable via a logical set of links from the
top level page?

2.  If Karl's testimony is/was not posted, why was it not posted, especially
given that pro-ICANN testimony by Vint Cerf and Mike Roberts was posted?

3.  Who decides which testimony to post?

Regards,
Barbara

On 9/3/02 1:09 AM, "Dave Crocker" <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> At 11:19 PM 9/2/2002 -0700, Barbara Simons wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, did ICANN ever post Karl Auerbach's Congressional
>> ...not, who decides which Board member's testimony to post and which to
>> ignore?
>> On what basis is that decision made?
> 
> Out of curiosity, is this really the most important Internet naming and
> numbering issue you can find to spend everyone's energy on?
> 
> Don't you ever pay just a little bit of attention to the actual work to be
> done, or is this all just an opera to you?
> 
> I'm just asking.  They're just a couple of questions.
> 
> d/
> 
> 
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