Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Updates on SOI/DOIs

[Alex Gakuru <gakuru@xxxxxxxxx>]

How I wish there were an ICANN DOF ("Declaration of Financials") where
all actors, stakeholders and staff declared their financial incomes
and sources, including all sponsorships and affiliations,
exhaustively. At least the community could then apply the good old
"follow the money" trails thus transparency would be most clear. my
wishful thinking..

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 14 August 2010 00:39, Alex Gakuru <gakuru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > We knew early on here that any process that could selectively give any
>> > new
>> > TLD application "better treatment" (faster processing, lower cost. etc)
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>> > be a target of gaming attempts. For this reason, transparency of process
>> > is
>> > even more critical here than in many other ICANN venues.
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>> But may be excused for suspecting that the microscopic attention that
>> our group is apparently under is so as our outputs do not very
>> adversely disrupt the historical status quo?
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> Welcome to ICANN, where registrars are allowed to attend all meetings of
> At-Large but the opposite is not permitted.
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> Transparency is very selectively demanded in this place.
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> --
> - Evan
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