Let's assume that you are a user that discovers a problem that warrants ICANN's attention. What can you do to deal with the issue? A Mr. Jeff Johnson spotted a problem and wrote directly to the ICANN Public Participation Forum: "http://forum.icann.org/lists/registrar has been removed. http://forum.icann.org/lists/registry has been removed. I know for a fact that a large history of Registerfly complaints was held there, (whether that was appropriate or not is another matter ) and now that history of evidence is missing in plain sight." This revelation was a "big deal" inasmuch as the public forum comments were removed at a time after the commencement of the class action lawsuit against ICANN. Some might view this as electronic shredding of evidence that has a direct bearing on the degree of negligence for which ICANN may be culpable. Did anyone on ICANN's staff monitoring the public comments take any action? No. I raised the issue with ICANN's Manager of Public Participation (as did Karl Auerbach). Result: no action taken. I raised the issue by writing directly to Vint Cerf. After consulting with his legal staff Vint writes that "we have no evidence of any such action or removal." (and this is in spite of the fact that the forum is still inaccessible and while records still reside in the Google cache). The issue was raised once more with the ICANN Ombudsman at the ALAC third session in Lisbon who looked into the matter. Frank Fowlie wrote: 07-131 Dear Mr. Younger, Thank you for raising the issue of the missing links to the registry - registrar comment pages during my visit with the ALAC at the Lisbon ICANN Meeting. I have contacted our webmaster, and I am informed that this was due to links not coming "live" during the transition from the precedent web page to the new one which was inaugurated at the Lisbon meeting. I believe that the matter has been, or soon will be, attended to by the ICANN staff. Thank you for passing this comment to me for investigation. Best regards, Frank Fowlie Twelve days after Frank's investigation and the links are still inoperative. I find it difficult to believe that ICANN's webmaster is so consumed with projects that he can't attend to this matter. Meanwhile, the plaintiff in the class action lawsuit against ICANN, eNom and RegisterFly, is denied the opportunity to properly build a case as a chain of evidence is being withheld. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097