Re: [alac] ICANN blows off Ed Hasbrouck

[Jean Armour Polly <mom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was going along with ICANN on this--oh well, stuff happens, you 
didn't get the domain, get over it-- until I saw the John Jeffries 
letter. This is really outrageous. I agree with Bret--this has 
implications way beyond a TLD.


At 11:21 PM -0500 1/19/06, John R Levine recently said:
> Ed Hasbrouck writes about his latest correspondence from ICANN, in which
> John Jefferiwes says that merely because Vint made a public promise to do
> the independent review of .TRAVEL that Ed requested, as required by the
> ICANN bylaws, doesn't mean that they actually will, or that if they did
> they would do anything meaningful:
>
> http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000997.html
>
> Also see Bret's comments, entitled "ICANN is Never Wrong":
>
> http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/19/1714991.html
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet 
> for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
> "I shook hands with Senators Dole and Inouye," said Tom, disarmingly.