In response to calls I made yesterday at 5pm, Lisa Jandovitz called me early this morning. She confirmed that the solicitation was on hold and that fact finding was underway saying that any specific details would have to come from Becky Burr..... She added that eventually when matters were settled the solicitaion would be available at the URL below. My understanding (not from lisa) is that the GAO is now in charge of the fact finding and is asking plenty of questions of DoC and NTIA. That GAO will very quickly see that the procedure they have followed is indefensible and that the only way that NIST will be allowed to make a new solicitation is for it to be open source. While ORSC can of course bid, it is very likely that others will also be able to bid. NTIA needs to be far more careful than it has... I have been talking to all my legal contacts in DC and the opinion is coming back unanimous: NTIA has no legally defensible authority to be involved with ICANN or the root servers. It is a house of cards that a well timed and well placed lawsuit will bring crashing down. All of which makes Mike Roberts and Esther Dysons behavior even more bizarre. You would think they would be looking for friends among us rather than treating us with their Simsean created legal disdain. Several folk have told me that the only legal authority that ICANN can ever have is what the internet community is willing to grant it. Here is confirming detail from lisa jandovitz. X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:11:35 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lisa Jandovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ICANN Synopsis Mime-Version: 1.0 As we discussed this morning, your point of contact is Becky Burr at 202/482-2581 and the NIST Contracts Home address is: http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm *************************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet What Happened to the White Paper? 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ICANN a Sham. (updated 10/25/98) See (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) http://www.cookreport.com/whorules.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index to 6 years of COOK Report, how to subscribe, exec summaries, special reports, gloss at http://www.cookreport.com *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
