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ICANN Director Sues ICANN for Access to Records

Posted by michael on from the nutcracker-suite dept.

According to an EFF press release (press release mirror) today, Karl Auerbach (the North American elected representative to ICANN's board) filed suit (petition mirror) today against ICANN itself to obtain financial and other records that he has been seeking to obtain since December 2000. As a bit of background, according to general summaries that ICANN has released, it now spends about $6 million per year (for a job that used to be done by volunteers); roughly half of all the money it spends goes to the law firm of Jones Day.

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  1. ICANNOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ICANNOT access my records =(

  2. This is extremely disturbing by hillct · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's shocking that ICANN expects to be able to hide it's basic financials from members of it's own board of directors.

    I was rather amused though by board member Wilson's comment to Auerbach that his request for records had been rejected because he has requested them in Electronic Form; after all. ICANN can't be expected to be particularly technologically savvy. It's not like they do business in a high tech field. In fact, It's a miracle they even have a board member mailing list, from the tone of the petittion.

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  3. Good luck! by macdaddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good luck, Karl! It sounds like at least one person over at ICANN isn't a horrible waste of carbon.

  4. I hate to say it... by Lendrick · · Score: 3, Funny

    One where democracy rules, where the law is applied equally to both big companies and the little guy.

    ...but if you move the root dns servers to another universe, we won't be able to access them from here, so it'll be moot.

  5. Meanwhile, Back at ICAAN Headquarters by SubtleNuance · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Gentlemen, Start your Shredders!"

    VRMMMMM VRMMM SHHHHHHHHHRREEWWW.

    1. Re:Meanwhile, Back at ICAAN Headquarters by ethereal · · Score: 2, Funny

      [as seen on a board around here]

      The partner at Anderson said "Ship the Enron documents to the Feds." But you heard "Rip the Enron documents to shreds."

      Turns out it was just a case of bad cellular.

      Sprint PCS, etc., etc. :)

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  6. For roughly $500 000... by FFFish · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I'll do all the work that ICANN does. And I promise to be fair and sensible.

    Which is, all told, a helluva deal for everyone. I'll be a lot cheaper, and you can be damn sure that even at my worst, I can't be even 1/10th as bad as ICANN. :-)

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  7. ICANN't? by Xaxeon · · Score: 2, Funny


    KARL: Give me the financial records!
    ICANN: ICANN't let you do that Karl...

    Sorry, didn't see that anyone had done it so I had to... =)

  8. This is interesting... by Over_and_Done · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else notice that the EFF related information is mirrored, but the ICANN info and the law firm aren't? Hmmm... hostile slashdotting?

  9. Re:What has ICANN done for us? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    bend over, I'll show you.