RE: [ga] Consensus... Definition?

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

I suspect that we will continue to have a lot of disagreement about what is
policy and what is not.  On first glance, I would personally tend to agree
with you on this one.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: DPF [mailto:david@farrar.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:14 PM
To: Gomes, Chuck
Cc: 'technizmo'; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Consensus... Definition?


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:08:59 -0400, "Gomes, Chuck"
<cgomes@verisign.com> wrote:

>If every decision has to be a consensus decision, nothing will ever get
>done.  Moreover, not all decisions are policy decisions.  Some decisions
are
>contractual, some are business decisions, some are legal, etc.

I agree with this.

However the ICANN staff have beyond any doubt been making policy
decisions with no input from the DNSO.  An example I have used before
and asked someone to explain is that in the new TLDs there is a ban on
registering a ccTLD at the 2LD unless you have permission of the
Government concerned.

This is not a technical issue.  This is not a business issue.  This is
a policy issue.

It should not be in there as there is no mandate for it.  I know WIPO
is in favour of such a thing but any ideas from WIPO should go through
the IPC to the DNSO and then the ICANN Board surely?

DPF
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