You're right Jonathan,
My apologies for not being specific enough.
Berkman has added much to the openness of many
of the ICANN functions, and I was wrong to state
my complaint as it is stated below.
My reference was to this sudden change of
wind. The Commerce Department *now* saying
that closed board meetings are un-acceptable.
Then, we get this from Joe:
>ICANN officials say they're happy to comply. "It's actually quite a
>positive development," said ICANN Counsel Joe Sims. "What happens is the
>debate takes place among the same small group of knowledgeable people, and
>each of them have their own axes to grind. Unless we're doing an absolutely
>awful job, getting light shone on it ought to be good."
What a Crock!
And while Berkman was there to provide web
broadcasts, I don't remember Berkman ever
taking a critical position against ICANN
(except Larry Lessig, whom I still greatly
admire and respect).
It seems no-one dare do so in public, until
the tide turns, then everyone jumps on the
bandwagon.
Like I said, I'm tired of this brinksmanship.
These conciliatory moves are simply too little,
too late.
Fool me once . . .
Respectfully,
Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc. 404-943-0524
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What's your .per(sm)? http://www.iperdome.com
At 02:34 PM 7/11/99 , Jon Zittrain wrote:
>Jay,
>
>See <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann>,
><http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs>, <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ifwp>,
><http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/whois>.
>
>Webcasts of meetings, open MAC sessions, open research (remember our
>January meeting?), remote participation architectures, and a comprehensive,
>free primary source archive of that which has come from both IFWP and
>ICANN--openness isn't something the Berkman Center has come to only lately,
>and the extent of our institutional participation and labor has been all
>about building and refining architectures for openness. And civil
>exchange. For my part, I don't think I'm acting "conciliatory" after
>coming around from an opposite view. I'm simply trying to engage on the
>list respectfully, after a long period of not participating at all because
>of the tired, personal nature of so many of the exchanges. ...JZ
>
>At 02:16 PM 7/11/99 , Jay Fenello wrote:
>
>
>>Well, isn't this just grand.
>>
>>After 9 months of complaints by many members of this
>>list, and many members of the Internet community in
>>general, it now seems that *everyone* agrees with us.
>>
>>Oh, how comforting.
>>
>>Too bad that neither the Commerce Department, nor
>>the Berkman Center, nor ICANN itself ever seemed to
>>care about sunshine and openness before.
>>
>>Frankly, I'm tired of this game of brinksmanship.
>>These conciliatory moves are simply too little, too
>>late.
>>
>>Fool me once . . .
>>
>>Respectfully,
>>
>>Jay Fenello
>>President, Iperdome, Inc. 404-943-0524
>>-----------------------------------------------
>>What's your .per(sm)? http://www.iperdome.com
>
>
>Jon Zittrain
>Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
