Re: [ga] MINUTES OF MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

on 8/22/01 3:56 PM, William S. Lovell at wsl@cerebalaw.com wrote:

> Bottom line: ICANN is mostly a Jones Day cash cow. I hope
> that all of the candidates for the Board of Directors take note
> of this.

Certainly, I'd scrutinize Jones Day. If they cannot account for
irregularities, I would back any campaign to remove them.

Regards,
Joanna 

> 
> Bill Lovell
> 
> Andy Gardner wrote:
> 
>> At 7:18 AM +1200 23/8/01, DPF wrote:
>>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:49:59 -0500, Bruce James <bmjames@swbell.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> PAYMENT OF LEGAL EXPENSES
>>>> 
>>>> During the months of February and May 2001, the fees associated with
>>>> these outside services were US$105,209.90 and US$78,650.70, respectively.
>>>> Given the discounts ICANN receives from Jones Day in recognition of its
>>>> non-profit character, the effective hourly rate for the legal services
>>>> covered by these two invoices is approximately US$200, well under the rates
>>>> ordinarily charged by lawyers with comparable experience and credentials
>>>> for
>>>> work of this type.
>>> 
>>> My mathematics works out that in February 2001 there must have then
>>> been 525 hours spent on ICANN business, which would be least three
>>> lawyers working full-time just on ICANN issues.
>> 
>> Can we get some sort of discount factored in regarding the registry
>> agreements that were originally written by Jones Day but were so bad they
>> needed to be re-done?
>> 
>> And can we assume that since we were told by Jones Day that the new
>> agreements were non-negotiable, any time they spent in the ensuing
>> negotiations was done at a zero rated fee?
>> 
>> --
>> Andrew P. Gardner
>> barcelona.com stolen, stmoritz.com stays. What's uniform about the UDRP?
>> We could ask ICANN to send WIPO a clue, but do they have any to spare?
>> Get active: http://www.tldlobby.com
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> 
> The URLs for Best Practices:
> DNSO Citation:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
> (Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
> Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA")
> Part I:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
> Part II:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
> (Access to the .pdf file requires installing the Adobe Acrobat
> Reader, which is available for free down load at
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
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