Fed-up with ICANN? to: Re: [ICANN-EU] Disclosure of ICANN At Large Membership information

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Karl and all,

  You are certainly not alone in your Fed-up feeling about ICANN and
more specifically the current ICANN board and the DNSO NC. I have
seen many posts that indicate clearly that you are reflecting a consensus
opinion.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> 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.

Regards,

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