ICANN submits 9th Status Report to U.S. gov't

[karen banks]

Dear all

Apologies if this is well known to others - but, how is the ICANN report
put together? ie, is this group consulted, able to give feedback? have
recourse?

thanks for the welcome chris..

karen

At 15:25 08/04/2004 -0400, Chris Chiu wrote:
>ICANN has submitted its latest status report to the United States
>Department of Commerce. Among other things, in the report, ICANN only
>makes a passing and indirect reference to its legal battle with Verisign,
>which claims that ICANN has violated contract and antitrust law in
>reacting to several Verisign initiatives. ICANN also continues to claim
>that it "does not create or make Internet policy. Rather, policy is
>created through a bottom-up, transparent process involving all necessary
>constituencies and stakeholders in the Internet Community." However, the
>document does not mention that ICANN abolished public elections (to fill
>seats on its Board of Directors) nearly two years ago; nor does it say
>whether the organization will resume such elections in the near future.
>
>See
>http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/#highlights
>
>Sincerely,
>Christopher Chiu
>Technology Policy Analyst
>American Civil Liberties Union
>
>P.S. Congratulations and welcome to new NCUC members IP Justice and APC!