[governance] ICANN RFC on its performance

[Veni Markovski]

At 19:00 5/13/2007  -0700, you wrote:
>Preposterous is the first thought that comes from this idea, that of 
>audio recording all board meetings and making them available to the 
>public. How many companies and organisations around the world do 
>this? I can only imagine the number that do it for all meetings 
>would be negligible.
>
>I'm all for transparency and accountability, but I don't see why 
>this should be expected.

You don't? But it's obvious: because that's one of the about 400 ways 
to keep ICANN off its mission, and distract the public opinion in the 
wrong direction. We have a saying in Bulgaria, "Let me say publicly 
that your sister is a bad person, and then try to explain that you 
don't have a sister at all".
So, when people say that ICANN is not transparent, they say, "You see 
- they don't even record their meetings - something which costs 
nothing, and we have even volunteers to do that". And somebody may 
not even ask the question you are asking, but think, "Hmmm... right - 
why don't they?"

veni

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