Today, the General Accounting Office (GAO),
the investigative arm of Congress, released
its long awaited report on its investigation
into the formation of ICANN, the World's new
Internet Governance body.
What follows are two very different stories
on the conclusions of that report. One article
boldly declares that ICANN's legitimacy issues
are now, at long last, finally resolved:
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16642,00.html?nl=dnh
The other describes how "Opponents of the
powerful and controversial ICANN today blasted
a government report that found nothing illegal in
the formation or the ongoing governance efforts
of the fledgling entity."
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/151796.html
It also quoted a GAO official who tried to justify
the report, because it "deals only with legal issues
surrounding ICANN's development, not with whether
that development was a good idea."
Over the coming days, I'll have much more to
say about these discrepancies.
I'll also address the GAO's assertion that "Many
of [ICANN's critics] had basic complaints about how
(ICANN was formed) but when we asked them 'was there
a violation of federal law that occurred here?' they
didn't have an opinion"
Until next time . . .
Respectfully,
Jay Fenello,
New Media Strategies
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