The following concerns my lawsuit against ICANN and highly incorrect misstatements made on this list about the outcome of that action. I have no intention of turning this into a thread, but I do feel that I'm within the bounds of etiquitte by sending a corrective e-mail. On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dave Crocker wrote: > 2. Note that Karl won the suit, but lost the war. He is now subject to > the conditions that ICANN had originally wanted to apply for his > access. The only difference is that now Karl is under a court order to > conform to those rules. The writer of the above paragraph has his facts completely wrong. He is doing nothing more than parrotting back ICANN's quite misleading press release. ICANN lost utterly and totally - not a single issue advocated by ICANN was adopted by the court. The court granted my motion for summary judgement. ICANN's so-called "procedures" and the "restrictions" issued under those procedures were rejected by the court with a kick that would be the envy of a world cup champion. ICANN is trying to spin its complete loss into some sort of Pollyanna story about how the result is what ICANN wanted all long. If this is really what ICANN wanted, then ICANN ought to have acquiesed to my offer to them back in September of last year. ICANN's apologists can chose to deceive themselves, it is their right to make themselves deaf, dumb, and blind. However anyone who choses to look at the actual filings and orders will quickly perceive that the court order invalidates the rules and restrictions that ICANN attempted to impose - those rules and restrictions are now gone in a court-ordered flash of light and smoke. And ICANN's attempt to self-decree that it can bind and gag a Director has been made equally vacuous. The writer of the quoted paragraph seems to have a complete non-comprehension of the duties, obligations, and rights of a corporate Director. I am merely doing what the directors of Enron ought to have done - I am attempting to look at the raw information and make my own evaluations rather than relying on the highly processed and self-serving packages that ICANN management purveys. Under the court's order ICANN must start delivering materials by tomorrow, August 2 - a mere 20 months after I first requested them. --karl--