Re: [ga] GA position on Verisign contract

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Roberto and all remaining assembly members,

  Roberto, the main disconnect in your report and subsequent comments
below is that the consensus seem to be that NO changes to the current
registration practice for .ORG or .NET is made in perpetuity.  Your comments
below and your report differ on this point dramatically.

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> 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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