No evidence of accountability or transparency

["Garth Bruen" <gbruen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN and ATRT2 Members,

This letter must be written in the strongest of terms to avoid any possible
misinterpretation. ICANN is failing in its commitment to accountability and
transparency. At its core, ICANN contracts with registrars who sponsor
domain names. This is the technical administrative role,  chief revenue
source, and principle reason for ICANN's existence. ICANN has failed to
effectively enforce its existing contract with certain registrars who have
allowed thoroughly documented abusers of the DNS unobstructed access to bulk
domains registered in bad faith. 

When presented with these serious issues ICANN staff effectively closed the
discussion without explanation. Additionally, instead of focusing on these
serious issues, key ICANN staff looking into these problems were terminated
or removed from duties. Nearly a year after being first submitted to ICANN,
this information has finally been posted
(http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/bruen-to-chehade-22apr13-en),
however any actual response or meaningful action is still unseen. Put quite
simply, ICANN continues to accept funds from domain owners who have violated
policy. Beyond that the organization will not provide any real policy
rationale to the public. 

Attempts to use ICANN's very procedures to address these issue also reveal
failure of transparency. In anonymous and unsigned Documentary Disclosure
Information Policy responses, the ICANN policy of actual transparency is
clear: the relationship between ICANN and the registrars supersedes any
obligation to the community; The details of this relationship are secret and
no further explanation is required. 

If this cannot addressed then ICANN will actually share a significant
portion of the blame for spam, malware and DNS abuse. This needs to change
in order to retrieve the public trust.

Sincerely, Garth Bruen


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Garth Bruen
KnujOn.com, Principal Investigator