Gordon Cook does not have my permission to speak for me. I wish he'd stop
it.
I can speak for myself just fine, and often do. You will find my academic
work on my my homepage http://www.law.tm . You will find some of my more
journalistic ICANN-related work, at http://www.icannwatch.org
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Gordon Cook wrote:
Carl ...great... no problem. Your web page cited below essentially
invites the internet technical community and anyone else who wishes
to take the time to try out your "roots" and your 'branches' and that
on the merit of working running code tell the ICANN evaluators that
they made a mistake and that they should as a result rethink their
award intentions.
Yes?
OK Terrific. I wish you luck. So does Michael Froomkin, who I
don't think believes that your approach will work. Were it to work
great.
So OK lets go process and maybe THIS time it will work, since your
technical standing and reputation are superb. However: color me
sceptical that your strategy will make a difference.
Yes we certainly do have a problem with the ICANN process. Who
leads ICANN? Who makes the decisions? I suggest that Vinton Cerf as
Board Chair of ICANN is at least the TITULAR leader of ICANN. I
suggest it should not be regarded as ad hominem or personal to ask
ICANN's Board Chair to speak out and take a strong position on what
you have pointed out on your own web page looks to be a miscarriage
of justice.
I am discouraged because the last time the leadership issue arose on
this list was on august 1 and 2 with Karl's court victory. What
Vint tried to maintain on this list was true was shown by Karl and
Michael Froomkin to be erroneous. Vint seems to be willing to follow
the ICANN party line. In my opinion that party line has a poor
record for factual accuracy let alone good policy.
It would be nice to see this change. I and a lot of other folk have
given up any hope however.
I support your effort and wish you luck.
> Carl Malamud has quite a lot to say about integrity at
http://not.invisible.net/signals/bin/000270.shtml
I'd say that engineering without integrity is a bit flawed wouldn't you?
The thing I hate the most about the entire ICANN process is the fact that
problems with their process gets spun into personal attacks. Vint's
got plenty of integrity, as do all the staff I've dealt with at ICANN.
We've got a problem with their process, but let's not turn that into
ad hominum attack. Reasonable people can differ and discuss without
calling each other names or impuning their motives.
Regards,
Carl
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