[ga] Public Forum?

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Philip,

I note that the Council's agenda for Montevideo again does not allow for any 
public forum.   Doesn't the Council feel any responsibility to answer the 
questions that might be posed to it by its constituents?   

As our host committee has allocated sufficient time to the Council so that it 
may complete its many myriad tasks (Ballroom  - 13.30 to 18.00 - Name 
Council), there is no excuse for having an unduly short 3 hour session (14:00 
- 17:00) that does not include a Public comment period.

A public session of the Names Council should allow for public comments.  If 
the ICANN Board can have a Public Forum, why can't the NC?  Is a closed 
session in front of an audience what the Council considers to be "procedures 
designed to ensure fairness"?  Or perhaps the Bylaws don't mean that much to 
the Council?

Also, at the last Names Council teleconference, you (as Chair of the Review 
Task Force) indicated that the Guidelines for Working Groups would be 
released prior to Montevideo by the Review Task Force.   Will this be issued 
on schedule, or will we have another interminable delay of the type that has 
characterized all your dysfunctional Task Forces thus far?

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