Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions

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

Kent Crispin wrote:
>
>Most *actual* exercising of power is not subject to a consensus
>process, in *any* arena -- when a policeman arrests someone, the
>electorate is not making his on-the-spot decisions for him.
>

This is IIF the power is exerced within the borders of the current 
legislation (=>policy).
Since the DNSO NC (=>the body that is responsible for providing policy 
recommandation) has serious doubts about this, the question is in order.

>
>In fact, the only real policy input from the DNSO in this area came
>from WG-C, and the substance of that policy is that a number of
>different models should be tried.
>

May I disagree.
What you quote was the only "affirmative" statement from the DNSO, but a 
consistent number of decisions by DNSO and BoD constitute a "de-facto" 
policy statement.
The choice of new TLDs in MdR was dependent on the Registrar/Registry 
separation (pls. refer to the minutes for the statements from Vint + Hans), 
for instance.
Had the separation not been an element for decision, maybe other TLDs would 
have been chosen (IOD's .web, specifically).

Also, as pointed out also here in Melbourne, an anti-trust procedure by EC 
(DGIV, I believe) has been withdrawn after negotiations only after the 
separation clause had been introduced in the 1999 contract with NSi. The 
separation was therefore a relevant part of the contract, not something that 
could be changed by staff decision, in absence of agreement from the 
policy-making bodies.
(and, BTW, that should have been known to the staff).

Regards
Roberto

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