Once I got home, I wrote to ICANN to ask what (if anything) they planned to do, and when (if ever), with respect to my request for independent review of the process by which ICANN made its decision on ".travel", and my request for reconsideration of the lack of openness and transparency of the ICANN Board of Directors "meeting" of 3 May 2005, at which further discussion of TLD's was on the last-minute agenda.

Late last night, in reply to a query from the Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors, Mr. Vinton G. Cerf, I finally got an answer from Mr. Jeffrey, claiming:

We have been under the impression until recently that Mr. Hasbrouck had abandoned his various requests for review, based upon his failure to respond to the Ombudsman's Office and the quality of his response to my own email.

I have immediately responded to Messrs. Jeffrey and Cerf, reiterating that my requests remain outstanding, and that I have neither "fail[ed] to respond to the Ombudsman's Office" nor given any indication that I have "abandoned" my "various requests for review".

I have nothing personal against Mr. Jeffrey. I know nothing about him personally. So far as I know, we have never met, and I wouldn't recognize him if we did. My only communication with him has been by e-mail, in relation to ICANN business. But as I have said in my latest message to his employers -- ICANN's CEO (Mr. Paul Twomey) and Chairman of the Board:

I do not find it credible that Mr. Jeffrey sincerely believes that this message was intended to indicate my "abandonment" of my requests.

I've also noted repeatedly, in my published articles on this topic, that my request for independent review remains outstanding.