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Re: [ga] Failure to implement Bylaws
- To: Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Edward Hasbrouck <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, board-review-tor@xxxxxxxxx, rod_beckstrom@xxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [ga] Failure to implement Bylaws
- From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:17:23 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
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<P>Dr. Joe, Ed, and all,</P>
<P> </P>
<P> Indeed Ed has mad so very pointed, largely accurate and important
points. As such</P>
<P>they leave the impression at a minimum of poor leadership on the part of
ICANN Staff,</P>
<P>and a failure of good checks by the ICANN Board accordingly. These
observations</P>
<P>however have been duely reported to the ICANN Board review by myself and
others</P>
<P>on more than on occasion seemingly without garnering the attention they
deserve.<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff
2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Joe Baptista
<BAPTISTA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx><BR>Sent: Sep 25, 2009 12:44 PM <BR>To: Edward
Hasbrouck <EDWARD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx><BR>Cc: iic-proposed-bylaws@xxxxxxxxx,
na-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <BR>Subject: Re: [ga]
Failure to implement Bylaws <BR><BR>you have made some excellent
points.<BR><BR>cheers<BR>joe<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Edward Hasbrouck <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
target=_blank>edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt
0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><BR>ICANN has requested
comments by tomorrow, 25 September 2009, on proposed<BR>revisions to the ICANN
Bylaws for "Independent Review" of ICANN decisions:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-27jul09-en.htm";
target=_blank>http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-27jul09-en.htm</A><BR><BR>The
fundamental problem with ICANN's current Bylaws for independent review<BR>is
that those bylaws have never been properly implemented, and that --<BR>despite
multiple requests for independent review of ICANN decisions --
no<BR>independent review comporting with either the present or the
previous<BR>independent review Bylaws has ever been
conducted.<BR><BR>(According to a cursory statement on the ICMRegistry.Com Web
site, some<BR>sort of "hearing" is being conducted in Washington this week in
response<BR>to ICM Registry's request for independent review of an ICANN
decision.<BR>However, whatever is happening in that matter is not in accordance
with<BR>ICANN's Bylaws on independent review. First, the proceedings are
not<BR>being conducted with the maximum extent feasible of transparency,
as<BR>required by the Bylaws. Second, the independent review provider and
its<BR>procedures were not determined by ICANN in accordance with the
procedural<BR>rules of ICANN's bylaws for such policy decisions. Instead,
ICANN appears<BR>to have chosen the independent review provider and allowed it
to determine<BR>procedures -- which procedures themselves do not comport with
ICANN's<BR>Bylaws on transparency -- through completely improper secret, ex
parte<BR>negotiations with the potential independent review provider
while<BR>independent review requests with other parties were already
pending.)<BR><BR>Changing the bylaws on independent review will accomplish
nothing unless<BR>those bylaws are actually implemented (in accordance with,
inter alia, the<BR>other provisions of the Bylaws with respect to policy
development and<BR>decision-making procedures and transparency). ICANN
has done nothing to<BR>give reason for any confidence whatsoever that ICANN
will actually<BR>implement any accountability mechanisms, current or
revised.<BR><BR>As I have noted repeatedly in previous comments to ICANN, ICANN
has failed<BR>to implement any of the three accountability mechanisms required
by its<BR>current Bylaws. ICANN's Board of Directors has never held a
publicly<BR>disclosed vote to appoint or reappoint an Ombudsman. The
Reconsideration<BR>Committee of the Board of Directors has made decisions
which, by its own<BR>declaration, were based on matters not permitted to be a
basis for such<BR>decisions. And ICANN has never conducted a policy development
process to<BR>designate an independent review provider or develop or approve
procedures<BR>for independent review, just as it never appointed the members of
the<BR>independent review body provided for by its previous Bylaws.<BR><BR>(I
also note that the ICANN's request for comments is materially false
and<BR>misleading in its claim that, "ICANN has an Independent Review Process
in<BR>place, as established at Article IV, Section 3 (1) of the bylaws".
ICANN<BR>does not, in fact, have any process in place that has been
established in<BR>accordance with ICANN's accountability and transparency
Bylaws.)<BR><BR>ICANN has knowingly and wilfully persisted in this failure, in
flagrant<BR>violation of its own Bylaws. Members of ICANN's Board of Directors
have<BR>tolerated this ongoing and flagrant violation of the Bylaws.
Given<BR>ICANN's failure to establish any other means of accountability,
the only<BR>remaining mechanisms for calling ICANN to account are for the
United<BR>States Department of Commerce to revoke its contracts with ICANN
for<BR>breach of contract (in that ICANN has made contractual commitments to
the<BR>DOC to observe its Bylaws on accountability), and for the State
of<BR>California to revoke ICANN's corporate charter for persistent failure
to<BR>operate in accordance with its Bylaws, as required by that
charter.<BR><BR>Requests for independent review made under both the previous
and present<BR>independent review Bylaws remain pending and have not been acted
on by<BR>ICANN. The proposed revised independent review Bylaws are silent on
what<BR>action, if any, will ever be taken on these outstanding
requests.<BR><BR>Rather than revise the independent review Bylaws yet again,
ICANN should<BR>implement its existing Bylaws on accountability, including
independent<BR>review, by (1) appointing an Ombudsman, (2)compelling the
Reconsideration<BR>Committee to act in accordance with the Bylaws in new cases
and to<BR>properly reconsider those cases previous decided on impermissible
grounds,<BR>and (3) designating an Independent Review Provider, developing
procedures<BR>for independent review, and considering the backlog of
outstanding<BR>requests for independent review, all in accordance with the
procedural<BR>rules in the Bylaws for such decisions and actions, and the
general<BR>mandate of the Bylaws for the maximum extent feasible of
transparency in<BR>the operations of ICANN and its subsidiary
bodies.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Edward Hasbrouck<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR><A
href="mailto:edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"; target=_blank>edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A><BR><A
href="http://hasbrouck.org/icann";
target=_blank>http://hasbrouck.org/icann</A><BR><BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<P>Regards,<BR><BR>Jeffrey A. Williams<BR>Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over
294k members/stakeholders strong!)<BR>"Obedience of the law is the greatest
freedom" -<BR> Abraham Lincoln<BR><BR>"Credit should go with the
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the burden, B; liability<BR>depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied
by<BR>P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."<BR>United States v. Carroll
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