Registry contracts secretly amended and extended

This situation has a predecessor:

Back in 1999 ICANN entered into an agreement with Network Soltions (before it evolved into Verisign) under which ICANN began its series of gifts unto Verisign.

That agreement was made with complete disregard of the clearly defined processes in ICANN's bylaws.

I complained -

http://www.cavebear.com/archive/icann/reconsiderat ion_req.htm [cavebear.com] - but was rejected, as were all such complaints - by ICANN's reconsideration committee.

I filed a request for indepenedent review - which was lost because ICANN diddled around and never bothered to create a review panel.

I still believe that my compaint is valid and, if so, then the entire chain of agreements with Verisign should be considered null.

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Secret ? What Secrets ?
by Anonymous on Tuesday July 17 2007, @12:47PM (#16958)

Secret ? What Secrets ? Do you expect the "ICANN Community" to invite you to their secret meetings ? 2007 DNS-Operations Workshop The second DNS Operations Workshop will be held on July 27th and 28th, 2007 in Chicago, USA. This immediately follows the IETF69 meeting in Chicago, and precedes the OARC Member meeting on the 28th July. Participation is open to OARC members, presenters, by invitation, and to all other parties interested in DNS operations and research, subject to available space. A draft agenda is available here. Presentations of material of interest to DNS Operators are still welcome, and should be submitted to OARC at the e-mail address below as soon as possible. Please register using this Registration Form Attendee List Dates: Jul 27 PM (Fri) - 28 AM (Sat), 2007 Place/Map: DePaul University Loop Campus Address: 1 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604-2287 Building/Room: DPC 8005 Accomodation: IETF Hotel Information Local Hotel Information Fri 27th PM: DNS Operations presentations Sat 28th AM: DNS Operations presentations Sat 28th PM: OARC members meeting (closed) Joe Abley Afilias Canada, Corp Jaap Akkerhuis NLnet Labs Roy Arends Nominet Mark Andrews ISC Andreas Baess DENIC eG Ron Bonica Juniper Networks Brett Carr RIPE NCC Bruce Campbell Sebastian E. Castro Avila CAIDA Steve Conte ICANN Joao Damas ISC John Dickinson Nominet Francis Dupont ISC Jason Fesler Yahoo! Alexander Gall SWITCH Steve Gibbard Packet Clearing House Marcus Gillette Microsoft Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc Cesar Henrique Keiti Kuroiwa NIC.br Rodney Joffe NeuStar Robert Johnson Jr. Simon Leinen SWITCH Vincent Levigneron AFNIC Steve Kersey Microsoft Jaeyoun Kim National Internet Development Agency of Korea Peter Koch DeNIC eG Olaf Kolkman NLnet Labs Hugo Koji Kobayashi NIC.br Thomas Koshy Tech Advisory Mark Kosters VeriSign John Kristoff Neustar Ultra Services Matt Larson VeriSign, Inc. Otmar Lendl NIC.AT Peter Losher ISC/f.root Terry Manderson APNIC Bill Manning Keith Mitchell OARC/ISC Frederico A C Neves NIC.br Haruhiko Nishida NTT Jim Nyland Microsoft Stephan Olson student Jim Pelatsky Microsoft Matthew Pounsett Canadian Internet Registration Authority Hanin Rayes Scott Rose NIST Niclas Rosell .SE Jeffrey Roth DLA NOSC Matthew Ryanczak ARIN Shinta Sato JPRS John M. Schneider DePaul University Dave Scheibel Microsoft Krunal Shah student Gerry Sneeringer University of Maryland Yungjin Suh National Internet Development Agency of Korea Andrew Sullivan Afilias Tsuyoshi Toyono NTT Mauricio Vergara Ereche NIC Chile Antoin Verschuren SIDN Sam Weiler SPARTA, Inc. Duane Wessels Measurement Factory Tim Wilde Team Cymru, Inc. Suzanne Woolf ISC Arlene Yetnikoff DePaul University Yoshiro Yoneya JPRS

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More Secret Meetings - ARIN, IETF, ICANN, ENOM
by Anonymous on Saturday July 21 2007, @06:45AM (#16959)

More Secret Meetings - ARIN, IETF, ICANN, ENOM Preparing for Fall ICANN Meeting in .LA http://www.hostingcon.com/2007/attend/exhib itor-detail.php?id=83 [Note no mention on ARIN web site about these secret meetings] In his opening keynote, Demand Media Chairman, CEO and co-Founder Richard Rosenblatt will engage this year's audience with a colorful take on current Internet trends and how they impact the web hosting and domain registration markets. From this 10,000-foot view, Rosenblatt will drill down specifically to factors that are on everyone's mind - monetization, user generated content, community - and discuss how these will help traditional hosting providers differentiate their businesses and engage their customers. Richard Rosenblatt, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Demand Media (ENOM) http://www.ietf.org/meetings/attendees_6 9.htm Joe Abley Harald Alvestrand Rob Austein Marla Azinger Fred Baker Brian Carpenter Steve Conte Michelle Cotton Dave Crocker Leslie Daigle Tina Dam Donald Eastlake Sally Floyd Robert Hinden Geoff Huston Ole Jacobsen Rodney Joffe John Klensin Jun Murai Raymond Plzak Lynn St Amour Michael St Johns Margaret Wasserman Suzanne Woolf 5:30-9:00p Navy Pier Rooftop Barbecue - A DON'T MISS NETWORK EVENT Great food, drinks and music on the rooftop at Navy Pier. Enjoy the lakefront and Chicago Skyline while networking and socializing with your peers. Requires free registration - check the box during your HostingCon 2007 registration or contact info@hostingcon.com 9:00-10:00p Fireworks over Navy Pier (start time is approximate) The sky above the lakefront will fill with a spectacular fireworks display of color and sound. You'll have the best seat in the house!

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"I wonder what Reagan would think of ICANN?"
by Anonymous on Monday July 23 2007, @08:29PM (#16960)

One of the ICANN chosen people asked[1]:
"I wonder what Reagan would think of ICANN?"

Reagan would probably note that one of the ways
that he beat the Soviets was to spend them to
their demise. Misinformation was used to keep
the Soviets running in circles, chasing rainbows
in outer space. It is very expensive to chase
rainbows.

The Clinton's ICANN spends money like water.
The staff grows and does little or nothing
but collect a check. They play in cyberspace
for six figure incomes. Some sit on the beach
in Hawaii, and laugh all the way to the bank.
Only chosen people are put on staff of course.
That is the same way that the Soviets made sure
a small percentage of the population was "happy"
and did not complain.

Don't ask for a tour of the ICANN offices when
you meet in LA in the Fall. The staff works
from the beach of course. You will not need
to venture past the LA Airport. Actually, there
is no reason to go there unless you want to
see some big Cerf lovefest where people kiss
his ring for providing them with a free ride.

If you want to see a strong parallel to ICANN
venture down to Cuba. It is run the same way.
Castro, like Cerf, doles out money to the chosen
ones and a small part of the population lives
very well. As with ICANN, you are not allowed
to ask any questions. It is a dictatorship,
pure and simple. Cerf may leave in the Fall,
but he will still run the show. Reagan would
see that instantly. Reagan knew the LA game.

Verisign of course funds and runs ICANN. They
do not want any competition unless they are
first in line. ICANN ensures them that in
return for funding. People are fools to believe
that they have any say or input to the ICANN
processes.

Verisign is well aware of what the next phase
will be. They will flush the Clinton's ICANN
unless the Clintons return to DC. If the Clintons
return, you will see more and more ICANNs.
If the Clintons do not return, then Verisign
and Microsoft will flush ICANN as a bad dream.
Maybe ICANN will move to Australia and leave
the USA alone. Don't count on it, Reagan is not
likely to return.

Prepare for the Clinton's return, and many
many ICANNs. Your money is their money and
their money is their money, it is very simple.
Open your wallets and start writing checks.

----
[1]"Domain names are harmless (except in the overheated brains of a few trademark lawyers.)

It is interesting, indeed it is appalling, that it is easier to get past the regulatory hurdles to start a new airline than it is to get past ICANN to start a new top level domain.

I'm not a fan of Ronald Reagan. But he knew a bloated bureaucracy when he saw one. I wonder what Reagan would think of ICANN?"

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$Secret Meetings Show Need to Triple ICANN Staff$
by Anonymous on Tuesday July 24 2007, @02:31PM (#16961)

$Secret Meetings Show Need to Triple ICANN Staff$

ICANN/IANA to License ISPs and Set Up Internet Sheriffs

Vinton Cerf and Esther Dyson as the First Sheriffs backed by Harvard Law
http://www.stopbadware.org/

IEPG Meeeting - March 2007
22 July 2007
Chicago
Meeting Agenda
* IANA DNSSEC systems development
Richard Lamb, IANA
* ULA-C
Paul Vixie, ISC
* Network weather map
Simon Leinen, Switch
* Trying to live in a dual-stack world
Simon Leinen, Switch
* Flow performance parameters and what you can learn about inter-as traffic
? - Uninett
* RIR Update
Ray Plzak, ARIN
* IPv6 Transition
Randy Bush, IIJ
* IPv4 Exhaustion
Jordy Palet
* Open Resolver Stats
Rodney Joffe

Some notes of the meeting, taken by Geoff Huston

$Secret Meetings Show Need to Triple ICANN Staff$

Legacy space has been transferred. In some cases completely
legitimately, in some cases fraudulently; and in many cases in some
sort of grey area. Historically there were no rules. Can a legacy
holder transfer their space to another party? Are they required
to tell anyone if they do? If someone disputes the transfer, what
constitutes proof? What role does ARIN play in any of this process?
Can a technical contact initiate the transfer, or does it need to
be authorized by an officer of the company?

As IPv4 space increases in value I suspect we'll see many more cases
of all possible outcomes. Hijacked space will turn up like crazy
as people wake up and take notice. Legitimate transfers that were
never documented will cause headaches for many companies. Companies
that were previously friendly and worked on a handshake arrangement
will turn hostile, and the lack of documentation will harm them
all.

It's IANA's problem. It's ARIN's problem. It's DARPA and the DOD's
problem. It may turn out to be the courts problem, but most of
all, it's the community's problem. Should netblock ownership and
routing slots descend into some sort of Mad Max type of future we're
all going to loose, big time. Secure routing is never going to
work if we can't figure out who gets the certificate.

Vinton Cerf and Esther Dyson as the First Sheriffs backed by Harvard Law
http://www.stopbadware.org/

StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute are leading this initiative with the support of several prominent tech companies, including Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems. Consumer Reports WebWatch is serving as an unpaid special advisor.

John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center and Harvard Clinical Professor of Law, and Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law Visiting Professor and Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University, are StopBadware.org co-directors. Supporting them are an advisory board and working group made up of some of the top experts in the field, including Internet pioneers Esther Dyson and Vint Cerf.

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ARIN & NANOG Psychopaths Dominate Secret Meeti
by Anonymous on Thursday July 26 2007, @04:13PM (#16962)

ARIN & NANOG Psychopaths Dominate Secret Meetings

It should be no surprise that the same old cabal
of ARIN and NANOG Psychopaths are warming up for
the big ICANN meeting in the USA in 2007. It has
been a long time since ICANN has taken the risk
of showing their faces in the USA. They will
no doubt be recruiting every whacko they can
to surround them and protect them and distract
the world from the places where the real
decisions are made. (.NY and .DC)

What should happen next? Ideally, all the intellectual property lawyers, domainers, corporations and users will join hands around the campfire, sing “Kum-bai-ya"… and a new era of world peace will ensue.

"Hare Krishna" brings to mind, for many, the conspicuous Hare Krishna devotees, who first appeared on the streets of Western cities in the 1960s and 1970s, dancing and chanting with drums and cymbals, wearing saffron dhotis or colourful saris, and selling Bhagavad Gita As It Is and similar literatures. These devotees were members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. ISKCON was the first organised Vaishnava group to make a large impression outside of India.

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Esther Dyson and Vinton Cerf Ready to Crack Down
by Anonymous on Friday July 27 2007, @04:41AM (#16963)

Esther Dyson and Vinton Cerf Ready to Crack Down

What do Esther Dyson and Vinton Cerf do for an
encore after creating the ICANN mess ?...profit
from policing it of course...

Step 1. Create artificial scarcity in domain
names. [check]

Step 2. Create Registrar franchisees where none
were needed in the past. [check]

Step 3. Discover that Registrars and their
Resellers are stealing names, holding names
hostage, and demanding extortion for names to
be returned. [really ? act surprised and try
to imagine it will go away]

Step 4. Tell the U.S. Government that MORE
money is needed to fund the clean up of the
mess the U.S. Government PAID these people to
create.

Step 5. Fan the flames via clueless groups that
will not notice who started the fire. ...laugh all the way to the bank...nice job
Esther and Vint...you are masters of your domain

---
Josh Bourne, the coalition's president, said a 1999 federal consumer protection law against cybersquatting isn't deterring the practice and civil penalties -- which now range from $1,000 to $100,000 -- aren't enough, he added.

United as the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, 10 companies have hired the law firm Alston and Bird LLP to persuade federal lawmakers of the need to crack down against those who claim Web addresses, or domain names, that include -- or even resemble -- a legitimate company's trademark.

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Esther Dyson's Stooge Susan Crawford FRUSTRATED
by Anonymous on Friday July 27 2007, @05:15AM (#16964)

Esther Dyson's Stooge Susan Crawford FRUSTRATED ...she has no levers to pull...

"It's frustrating. Someone said to me today, "Why don't we just have a few days of riots?" I can't imagine Americans rioting over communications policy, and neither can you. The Commission wouldn't be moved by riots - neither would the Congress. Google is right that the "foreclosure value" to the incumbents of these licenses isn't the same as their market value, and so the incumbents will spend whatever it takes to block new entrants. The people who want things to change don't have any levers to pull at the moment.

But there can always be lawsuits."

How many subpoenas*** will Esther Dyson and her
stooges be served in Los Angeles in October ?

Will Vint Cerf show up at the Los Angeles
ICANN meeting ? Will he be convienantly "under
the weather" ?

Where did the CEO of Verisign disappear to ?
[Don't ask]

***A subpoena is "a command to appear at a certain time and place to give testimony upon a certain matter."[1] The term is from the Middle English suppena and the Latin phrase sub poena meaning "under penalty."[2] The term may also be spelled "subpena."[3]

A subpoena is used to compel the testimony of witnesses in a trial or other adversarial proceeding. Subpoenas are issued by the clerk of the court (see below) in the name of the judge presiding over the case in which the witness is to testify. (Additionally, court rules often permit lawyers to issue subpoenas themselves in their capacity as officers of the court.) Typically subpoenas are issued "in blank" and it is the responsibility of the lawyer representing the plaintiff or defendant on whose behalf the testimony is to be given to serve the subpoena on the witness.

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