I will be putting various documents here that are relevant to the 
GAO-ICANN report.

Included are several articles written over the past two years
documenting the problem with ICANN as a private entity to privatize
what is a public treasure.

Also included are some issues of the Amateur Computerist which
contain a variety of articles that explore the problem with
ICANN's creation.

I also have copies of public documents here like the Office of 
Inspector General's NSF Report from 1997 which is important
as it describes why the DNS and IP systems are public property
needing public protection.

Also I have a sample of another GAO report, one about the FCC creating
a private corporation. One can compare the detailed factual description
in that report with the lack of a comparable description in the GAO-ICANN
report. Also the GAO-FCC report doesn't indicate it was given to the FCC to 
rewrite before being released to the public.


As soon as there is time, I will add the submissions I made to the GAO to 
to consider as background and information for their investigation
of ICANN. Their final report didn't, however, refer to anything
that was provided to them.


Please write me with any comments, suggestions for other documents
to be included and any help in getting public discussion in the 
media ongoing about the nature of changing the public nature of
the infrastructure of the Internet into a private entity with
no protection for the public.

Ronda 
ronda@ais.org
ronda@panix.com