[ga] Names Policy Development Process

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

A document entitled "Names Policy Development Process Assistance Group: 
Preliminary Framework" has been released by the ERC's select Task Force:  
http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/npdpag-report-26jul02.htm

This task force consists of Rita A. Rodin (chair), Marilyn Cade, Guillermo 
Carey, Caroline Chicoine, Bret Fausett, Jeff Neuman, Bruce Tonkin and Philip 
Sheppard -- basically the same bunch of folks that have provided us with such 
wonderful policy guidance so far.  

We have already had the benefit of Working Group D... unfortunately, no one 
on the Council ever gave its recommendations anything more than lip service, 
and of course they have completely eliminated all working groups.

We have already had the benefit of "Rules of Procedures for the DNSO Names 
Council" to govern policy development processes within task forces and 
working groups... unfortunately, no one on the Council even remembers these 
procedures, or what they're supposed to do when they convene a task force -- 
they only write these rules to prove that they are busy doing something.

And now we have the benefit of even more empty words regarding "timelines" 
and "opportunities for public input" by the very same people that have spent 
10 months in a transfers task force accomplishing nothing related to 
transfers, that won't publish a timeline, and that have used every means at 
their disposal to keep interested parties out of their closed task forces.  

This document is just another sham to continue to foist these illegitimate, 
non-productive, and hardly-attended task forces upon us.   The phrase 
"working group" isn't even mentioned.  Open, bottom-up, and fully transparent 
is being replaced by closed, top-down, and non-transparent task force 
teleconferences where minutes aren't even posted.

The only thing this group is accomplishing is preservation of the horribly 
failed status quo... and of course, they create the pretense that ICANN is 
actually involved in evolutionary reform so that the DoC will be pacified.  

Same old pretty-sounding words that we've all heard before, written with such 
a high level of generality as to be totally useless -- just like the current 
Names Council, and equally not surprising as almost every committee member is 
or was a Council rep.

Garbage in, Garbage out.



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