[governance] US Congress & the JPA

[Willie Currie]

Hi George

Very defensive  body language from Paul Twomey, with his arms crossed...

I thought the line of questioning from Congressman Stearns on ICANN's 
surplus was quite revealing. ICANN has a surplus of $7mil and is using 
it to build a reserve fund which now stands at $34mil. So Stearns was 
asking why ICANN as a non-profit doesn't reduce its fee structures, esp 
as with the new GTLDs it will pull in $90 mil next year. Asked about 
this, Dr Lenard of the Technology Policy Institute said that this was 
related to the problem of accountability as ICANN is only accontable to 
itself.

Willie

 George Sadowsky wrote:
> All:
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> The bottom of the web  page:
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> http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1642:energy-and-commerce-subcommittee-hearing-on-oversight-of-the-internet-corporation-for-assigned-names-and-numbers-icann&catid=134:subcommittee-on-communications-technology-and-the-internet&Itemid=74 
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> contains pointers  to both streaming and downloadable versions of the 
> entire hearing.
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> I found the hearing quite revealing, for its content, for the amount 
> of misunderstanding of basic facts, for the lack of understanding of 
> opposing viewpoints, and for some very coherent and perceptive things 
> that were said.
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> 3 hours, 1.5 gigabytes.  I don't know if a transcript exists, but the 
> video contains interesting body language that a transcript would not 
> convey.
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> George
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