Anupam Chander writes:
>
> First, Mr.
> Sondow's uneducated claim that I have "only recently become aware of ICANN's
> activities" is utterly false.
I used the word "uneducated" in reference to the ICANN Board, not
Mr. Chander. As to Mr. Chander being only recently involved in this
affair, I don't recall seeing any posts from him on the related
mailing lists (IFWP, Domain-policy, ICANN M.A.C., etc.) during the
period 1998-99 (I have been an active subscriber to them), nor do I
remember ever
having heard him speak at an ICANN meeting during its formation.
Where was Mr. Chander when the White Paper was issued? Where was he
during the IFWP? Where was he during the debates
surrounding the proposals for the NewCo? Where was he during the
struggle between the Paris group and the CORE/Trademark group for
acceptance by the ICANN Board of bylaws for the DNSO, or the war for
control of the NCDNHC? Was he present, but silent? Did he use
another name?
> If he had forwarded my original email in its
> entirety, others would have understood that the primary thrust of that email
> was criticism of ICANN's $50k entrance fee.
Your so-called "criticism" is typical of the loyal
opposition. You, like so many others who have found an unwarranted
place in ICANN, operate so as to preserve your new-found and
undeserved position by criticizing ICANN "from within", careful
always to suggest, in every thing you say, that ICANN is not
actually a bad organization, that it has simply made some minor
errors, and that it is reformable. These are lies. ICANN was
illegitimately created, has proceeded illegitimately in everything
it has undertaken including its manipulation of its own bylaws to
obviate the most fundamental rules which allowed it to be recognized
by the DOC (membership, transparency, and accountability), and is in
blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws
regarding the administration of government agencies and antitrust.
Yet you pretend that ICANN need only modify its greed, by changing
its TLD application process, to become acceptable.
Like a host of other appeasers and collaborators, your criticisms
are a cover-up for the irreconcilable breaches of justice, fairness,
and legality committed by ICANN and which make it an unreformable
and illicit organization.
> By forwarding my email to
> multiple lists, he denies me the opportunity to respond to his ridicule
> because I am not a subscriber to those lists, and my response is thereby
> automatically rejected by those lists that prohibit non-member > postings.
The fact that you are not a subscriber to the IFWP and Domain-Policy
lists proves my original contention that you are a jonny-come-lately
who has only recently become aware of ICANN's activities.
Michael Sondow
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