[governance] More on the USG-ICANN relationship

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Bill and all,

  Sound/reads like a circle jerk to me.  But given ICANN arcane
and often times obtuse and seriously flawed charter, this is not
a big surprise or inconsistent with the poor leadership ICANN
has consistently displayed and demonstrated over the past
8+ years.

William Drake wrote:

> "these changes to the registrar WHOIS obligations are in direct
> contravention to recommendations received from the Governmental Advisory
> Committee."
>
> Contravening the recommendations of an advisory body is impermissible, even
> when they're internally inconsistent?
>
> On 8/8/08 12:10 AM, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Right in the midst of our comments another letter went from Commerce
> > Department to ICANN, and another zinger, too!
> > You can find my analysis here:
> > http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2008/8/6/3827683.html
>
>
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