Re: [council] NCtelecon 21 September 2000, minutes

[Dany Vandromme <vandrome@renater.fr>]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Paul M. Kane wrote:

> Philip, this was indeed my understanding. Both Philip and I appreciated the
> responsibility the NC members had placed upon us and we took additional time to
> make sure it was correct, both legally and in accordance with our understanding
> of the NC Tel Conf briefing.
> 
> YJ and Danny, putting the process question to one side, (for a second)  are you
> of the opinion that the substance of the information release is in accord with
> our briefing during the call??
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Yes, in that case.
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> 
> If the NC is to have an effective voice in the ICANN process we need to
> be able to speak with one (united) voice..... I sincerely hope we can
> do that....
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I agree. That's why the NC approval, I was referring to in my previous
mail, is the warranty of a single voice. If the authors of the draft are
well in line with the NC thinkings, the approval will be "automatic" (and
would not take much time). If not, then we cannot refer to a united voice.
In anycase, I think it is preferable to adjust things before public 
release rather than showing a non-united voice.
Role of the NC organisation is certainly to achieve that efficiently.
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> > Best regards
> 
> Paul
> 
> Philip Sheppard wrote:
> 
> > Elisabeth,
> > one more correction on the press release.
> > My understanding and I believe that of Paul Kane's and Ken Stubbs, was that
> > Paul and Philip would draft the release between them, check out facts/legal
> > position via Louis and then ask Ken as chair to sign off on it.  That is
> > what we did. We had agreed that a message should be got out quickly.
> >
> > The idea of submitting a press release to be re-edited by the Names Council
> > and for everyone to agree to it was to my understanding not the case. Had
> > that been the case I would:
> > 1. have argued against it - it takes too long and risks the text being
> > changed piecemeal as opposed to a coherent whole written in a style to
> > attract interest from editors
> > 2. probably have withdrawn my offer to draft a release that would be subject
> > to such an editorial board!!!
> >
> > Philip
> 

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