As this is a general forum for discussing Australian Domain issues, you could
safely say that the wide consultation did not extend to Australia.

Patrick Corliss

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law <froomkin&#167;LAW.MIAMI.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 0:56
Subject: Were you consulted?


>As you may know, ICANN suddenly announced last week that it has formed
>Election and Nominating Committees, without any visible public input.
>The announcement is at
>http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr09may00.htm .
>
>Commentary suggesting that there were a few flaws in the process can be
>found at http://www.icannwatch.org
>
>In response to this criticism, ICANN CEO Mike Roberts is quoted in today's
>New York Times as saying that "Icann directors and staff worked hard to
>consult widely in the process of forming these committees,"
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/capital/16capital.html .
>
>As far as I can tell, no one I know was consulted, and am I in touch with
>a lot of people interested in ICANN.  My suspicion is that if ICANN did
>engage in consultations at all they were limited to participants in the
>late gTLD-MOU and/or representatives of large corporations.
>
>In order to test this intuition, I would be very interested in hearing
>from anyone who was actually consulted by ICANN prior to this
>announcement, whatever their affiliation.
>
>[This message is being cross-posted widely; please feel free to circulate
>as appropriate until May 25, 2000]
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