ICANN may receive information from vendors, for example, that is considered proprietary - that deserves protection as much as personnel information. An enormous amount of ICANN material is published on the web - more, I imagine, than a great many other non-profit organizations. vint At 06:46 PM 8/1/2002 -0700, Randy Bush wrote: >these are details of yet another cat fight into which icann has >wandered in its ever-unsatisfied desire for pool-pah. i was trying >to look above that. what fiscal or procedural matters of icann >(other than personnel data, which are usually well-protected >anyway) preclude simple transparency? why don't you just simply >publish the stuff at a detailed level on the web [0]? Vint Cerf SVP Architecture & Technology WorldCom 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax