[council] Re: Re[4]: [ga] GA position on Verisign contract

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_chair@hotmail.com>]

William,

>
>I don't see it as representative of the consensus of the GA.
>
>It implies that the GA thinks a change in the policy for .org IS
>something that should be considered provided that existing registrants
>aren't required to give up their names.

Maybe my perception of the consensus has been wrong, but what I have 
registered is a lot of people that were complaining about the possibility 
that current .org registrations could have been evicted, but not a lot of 
people clearly affirming that the charter of .org shall not be changed.
Moreover, the very fact that people are expressing their worries about the 
eviction from .org *implies* that they estimate possible that a charter can 
be enforced.


>
>I haven't seen any such consensus here on that, nor do I think that
>statement is appropriate or reflective of the sense of the GA.

Nowhere I said that there was consensus on changing the charter.
I only stated that, should the charter be changed, there's consensus that 
the current bona-fide registrations be kept.
In all fairness, this is what I understood.

Nevertheless, we are now discussing just the VeriSign contract: there will 
still be time to discuss explicitely about the possibility of a new charter 
for .org, and following that discussion, a straw poll and/or a vote can be 
called. Incidentally, my personal opinion is also that the charter shall not 
be changed, as I stated in a couple of posts: but my own opinion and the 
posts of few other people that expressed similar positions is, IMHO, not 
sufficient to call it a consensus. We have enough problems with the people 
that estimate that 24 to 2 is not consensus enough, you can imagine the 
reactions to a consensus call that was more dubious.

The main message this time was the favour to option A, and the reasons 
thereof. This is on record now. The management of .org can be discussed if 
option B prevails.

Regards
Roberto


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