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

[Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>]

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.