Jacqueline and all my friends, As a organ of ICANN the ALAC cannot do so. However as individual users that may have been effected which are those that are registrants, any number of ALAC members can do so. If enough do so decide to enjoin said legal action or file separately and/or collectively on similar grounds, than the ALAC has "Effectively" decided in the majority or to the extent of the number of members whom have filed or enjoined to support this legal action. "Jacqueline A. Morris" wrote:
How can ALAC which only exists as a part of ICANN (Advisory Committee) support a legal action against ICANN? As a non-USian and a non-lawyer, it seems strange to me, but I am willing to be enlightened by the US lawyers (as it is a US legal matter) Jacqueline Jeffrey A. Williams wrote:
Izumi and all,
I psoted this article yeaterday. However the ALAC would be WISE to supprot this legal action IMO. Failure to do so will be exposing users to other and further abuses.
Izumi AIZU wrote:
Interesting article, Sebastian! What should ALAC's position be? Support this? Or keep distance?
izumi
2008/2/27, Sébastien Bachollet <sebastien.bachollet@isoc.fr>:
For your information
http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080225/LAM06125022008-1.htm...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Solutions has forced millions of people to buy Internet domain names from them instead of cheaper competitors through a scheme that's netted the firm millions of dollars, a federal class action lawsuit filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP states. ICANN, whose policies facilitate the scheme, is also named in the suit, filed in U.S. District Court, Central District of California.
"Imagine if you asked a car dealer if they had a black convertible and were then forced to buy the car from them. Would you get a good deal? Each time someone asks Network Solutions about a domain name, the firm creates a monopoly for itself, forcing consumers to pay the price they demand," said Brian Kabateck, lead counsel in the class action and Kabateck Brown Kellner's Managing Partner.
Whenever someone searches for the availability of a domain name through Network Solutions' website, the company immediately registers the name for itself, preventing other companies from selling it and forcing consumers to pay Network Solutions' expensive fees.
If a consumer were to go to another, cheaper site to register the name, they would find the name is "unavailable." Consumers are never informed that inquiring as to a name's availability through Network Solutions results in the company holding a monopoly on selling that name.
This allows Network Solutions to continue charging substantially higher prices for domain name registration. Network Solutions charged $34.99 to register the name sought by this suit's lead plaintiff. A competitor would have charged $9.99.
Network Solutions' scheme is made possible by ICANN. ICANN allows companies that sell domain names to avoid paying registration fees for names cancelled within five days. Thus, Network Solutions can defraud customers at no cost to itself.
ICANN is aware that Network Solutions is abusing this policy and yet continues to facilitate its actions.
ICANN is the international organization, headquartered in Marina Del Rey, CA, that regulates domain names and other Internet protocols.
Kabateck Brown Kellner is one of the nation's foremost consumer law firms. Its clients have won more than $750 million against Google, Yahoo!, Farmer's Insurance, Eli Lilly and others. As a plaintiff's-only firm, Kabateck Brown Kellner is always on the consumers' side.
Sébastien Bachollet
Président
sebastien.bachollet@isoc.fr
www.egeni.org
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Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827