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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. Hmm by mnordstr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Something smells here, and it's not my feet!

  2. /.'d bandwidth bills... by edrugtrader · · Score: 1, Troll

    thats gotta be close to $3 million, so lets just call it even.

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  3. [OT] Page Widening by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    This will probably get modded down as flamebait. Oh well. Its not, actually. 14 posts in and there's already page widening. Actually, Klerck got the page widening first post, which I find very annoying. Perhaps more annoying than anything would have to be the fact that this bug has not yet been fixed. There's a sourceforge entry. There's even a few comments by slashdot coders about why they wont fix the bug. From what I understand, its Windows/IE specific.

    Their reasons, I gather, is because:

    * there's a valid reason for someone to post a list of dotfiles (though the last time I saw it, I couldn't say)
    * they don't have a Windows machine so they can test an IE solution

    The first bothers me only mildly; as not someone that uses dotfiles regularly I am no authority as to whether this is a wise assumption or not. I have been here for a while (always as an AC) and I have basically never seen a list of dotfiles though.

    The second bothers me a great deal. I'd be very interested to see a breakdown of site visitors by browsers. I believe it would be naieve in the extreme to assume slashdot is not visited daily by a large number of IE viewers. It also smacks of unprofessionalism that the coders of slash cannot test on one of the more popular (if not THE most popular, like it or not) browsers for the Web today. Don't have a Windows machine? That's the most laughably pathetic excuse ever.

    Oh well. I expect this to get modded down to oblivion. But until this is fixed, no doubt Klerck and the other joyous trolls will continue their page widening and it will continue to fuck up the lives of people on IE.

    And before you ask, no, i'm not switching to Mozilla or Opera. Why can't I use my preferred browser here, like everywhere else?

    Slash coders, please fix the problem ASAP.

  4. Its happened before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heres a USENET post about it

  5. huh...modded down to -1, offtopic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder if Michael Sims is moderating? Here's that link again about Michael Sims acting like a child.

  6. MOD PARENT UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is NOT TROLL! It is really infomative and has useful information about the ICANN story.