Re: [IFWP] quasi-government role of ICANN illegal under U.S. law

1999-06-29 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ronda Hauben wrote: > ICANN is illegal and the U.S. government's effort to create > ICANN is unconstitutional. > > Is the Government Corporate Control Act law online? If so where? All US statutes are online in many places. I like the search form at http://www.findlaw.com/

Re: [IFWP] quasi-government role of ICANN illegal under U.S. law

1999-06-28 Thread Ronda Hauben
"Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ronda Hauben wrote: ICANN is illegal and the U.S. government's effort to create ICANN is unconstitutional. Is the Government Corporate Control Act law online? If so where? I will take a look at your article when I get the ch

Re: [IFWP] quasi-government role of ICANN illegal under U.S. law

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Michael and all, Interesting how that woks out isn't it? B. Burr counsels the formation of the GAC, and than automatically sits on it. Kinda sounds allot like self serving fix, doesn't it? Maybe I am paranoid? ROFLMAO! And the divisiveness continues Michael Sondow wrote: > Michael F

Re: [IFWP] quasi-government role of ICANN illegal under U.S. law

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law a écrit: > > You will note there that most of the corporations the GCCA aimed to squash > were formed by US government employees and owned in whole or part by the > USG. ICANN is different: no USG employees formed it Not strictly speaking true. B. Burr si

Re: [IFWP] quasi-government role of ICANN illegal under U.S. law

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
An article on US federal government corporations appears at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/reinvent.htm You will note there that most of the corporations the GCCA aimed to squash were formed by US government employees and owned in whole or part by the USG. ICANN is different: no USG

Re: [IFWP] quasi-government role of ICANN illegal under U.S. law

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
"A.M. Rutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Which reminds me - are there any historical examples where >an entity playing a quasi-governmental role like ICANN has >ever displayed such amazing behavior as we've witnessed over >the past couple of weeks - and whether it doesn't essentially >disenf