[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [ICANN-EU] Disclosure of ICANN At Large Membership information



Karl,

It seems to me that many of the people running ICANN are amateurs.

Has the ICANN Board discussed the The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 ?

http://cyber.lp.findlaw.com/criminal/econ_esp.html

What about RICO laws ?...has the ICANN Board discussed those ?


Jim Fleming
http://www.unir.com/images/architech.gif
http://www.unir.com/images/address.gif
http://www.unir.com/images/headers.gif
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp


----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
To: JIM FLEMING <jfleming@anet.com>
Cc: Hans Klein <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>; <DFARBER@FCC.GOV>;
<edyson@edventure.com>; Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>; Barbara Simons
<simons@acm.org>; <barbara@simons.org>; <andy@ccc.de>;
<DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.NETSOL.COM>; <icann-europe@fitug.de>;
<krose@ntia.doc.gov>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] Disclosure of ICANN At Large Membership information


> JIM FLEMING wrote:
>
> > According to some ICANN Board members, ALL of the ICANN
> > records will be made public.
>
> Actually there's more to it than that.  The California Corporations code
> clearly says that members of a corporation, i.e. the people who vote in
> an election for board seats, have the clear right to obtain the
> membership list.
>
> The California legislature has determined that the right of the electors
> in a corporate election to organize among themselves to fully exercise
> their franchise supersedes any right of privacy that those electors may
> claim with regard to the fact of their membership.  This is nothing
> unique to the laws of California - this kind of provision is found in
> the corporations codes of many jurisdictions.
>
> If ICANN has a beef with this ICANN ought not violate California law -
> rather, ICANN should go to Sacramento and try to induce the legislature
> to change the law.
>
> I am completely fed up with ICANN's shell game in which it is trying
> every step possible to emasculate even the concept of an effective
> at-large.
>
>     --karl--
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mike Roberts <roberts@icann.org>
> > To: Hans Klein <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>
> > Cc: <icann-europe@fitug.de>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:10 PM
> > Subject: [ICANN-EU] Disclosure of ICANN At Large Membership information
> >
> > > At Large Friends -
> > >
> > > ICANN receives many questions about the status of the member
> > > registration records contained in the database collected for the
> > > purpose of supporting the recent vote for five At Large Directors.
> > >
> > > This information was collected under a strict privacy rule of no
> > > commercial use, no spamming, and no disclosure to third parties.
>