Re: [ga] ICANN's Letter to the IRS

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Let me concur wholeheartedly with this.  I've posted a couple
of things which seem to suggest (although obviously neither
premise is proven) that the accredited registrars write the budget
and that the American Intellectual Property Law Association
makes the decisions on having an Individual Domain Name
Holders Constituency.  Since the dollars do drive the action,
Danny's premise (as I read it) that no group within ICANN
should be separately funded by special interest groups is
precisely correct.  Search for outside funds should only
come
about, and only as a one-time shot, when (a) ICANN has
delegated task X to group Y; (b) task X (e.g., representing
the group at an international meeting, as at Stockholm)
requires money; and (c) ICANN provided no money for
that and the group itself doesn't have any.

How can there be "bottom up" governance when the Directors
are reimbursed for expenses but the worker bees are not?

Bill Lovell

"babybows.com" wrote:

Bruce,

Thank you for bringing this document
http://www.icann.org/financials/tax/us/letter-to-IRS-17aug00.htm  to our
attention.  Relevant citations:

"As explained more fully below, the ICANN SOs are consensus-based advisory
bodies within the ICANN framework. The SOs are not independently organized
entities. Rather, they are, in effect, internal ICANN working committees..."

"The Supporting Organizations are not separate legal entities. Rather, they
are loosely structured committees composed of individuals, companies, and
organizations having an interest in the subject matter being addressed by
the SO. Pursuant to their organizational documents, the SOs are
"consensus-based advisory bod[ies] within the ICANN framework."

As long as ICANN has represented that SOs are, in effect, internal ICANN
working committees, then these committees should be fully funded by their
parent body, especially if the parent body is a non-profit public benefit
corporation.  To have these bodies operate on the basis of funds received
only from "special interest groups" is antithetical to the premise of public
benefit.

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