RE: [ga] Final Review Task Force Report

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

|> From: DannyYounger@cs.com [mailto:DannyYounger@cs.com]
|> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:58 AM

|> You indicate that a cannon is necessary... what do you propose?

Proper escalation requires successive steps via;
DNSO/GA -> DNSO/NC -> ICANN/BoD -> USG/DOC -> USG/Congress.
At each step, relevent issues need to be surfaced, for that step, and as
that step's non-responsiveness is documented, issues are prepared for the
next step. One of the current problems are that the last two steps are
somewhat preoccupied with the current shooting-war. Therefore, issues have
to be refined that are relevent to the context of the current focus of those
steps.
 
There's proposal somewhere around here that a collective document be sent to
selected Congress-critters. Many of you, that have been reading me since the
NSI Domain-Policy list, may recall that the last thing I EVER wanted to get
involved here was the US Congress. But, that was during the beginings of the
dot-com daze and I was afraid that the Internet would become a political
foozball (Clinton era). Well, those days are gone, times have changed, and I
don't really see another way to go. We've already gone down all of the
rat-holes (some of them, 2-3 times), and they're all dry. There is no cheese
at the center of this maze, not even the scent, and they're about to drop us
into the ALSO maze, with equal probability of getting flim-flammed (dead
certainty).

I might point out that if we started such a collective document that it will
find resistance and folks would try and disrupt the work, or add poisoned
riders to it. I don't think that we can succesfully build such a document on
this list. We're talking about politicking in the only place that matters,
as far as the ICANN is concerned, the US Congress. Also, this stuff takes
money and the ICANN won't let the GA have any.

MHSC has some assets that can be used, like DNSO.NET. However, I am entering
into a very busy time and it looks like I'll be travelling a lot this month.
Therefore, I won't have the time to put into this, other than reviewing
progress. I also may be moving my servers sometime in Jan02. However, I can
provide DNS for DNSO.NET anywhere else that suits the purpose, like a
3rd-level registry. I also have a SUsE Linux box (falcon.mhsc.com), with
sendmail and majordomo, that I don't have time to configure.

There's more, but no time, something just came up here.
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