[ga] Open letter to the .US Policy Council

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Dear members of the .US Policy Council:

Jonathan Hudis, American Intellectual Property Law Association 
Tom Cunningham, Bulk Register, Inc. 
Juan Otero, National League of Cities 
Michael D. Palage, Attorney 
Joe Rubin, U.S. Chamber of Commerce 
Larry J. Singer, National Association of State Chief Information Officers & 
Georgia Technology Authority 
Claudette W. Tennant, American Library Association 
David Wascher, Delegated Manager, The Registry at Info Avenue 
James Casey, NeuStar, Inc. 
Tom McGarry, NeuStar, Inc. 



I am writing to you through the vehicle of the discussion list provided by 
the General Assembly of ICANN's Domain Names Supporting Organization because 
you have not seen fit to provide a discussion list whereby members of the .US 
Community can directly pose their concerns to you.

Having attended the Senate hearings in Washington yesterday on S2537/HR3833, 
the Dot Kids implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, it was my expectation 
that the policy advice of your Council would have been tendered for 
evaluation by the Committee.  I am not aware of any such advice being 
publicly submitted, nor do I recall seeing any members of the Council present 
at this session (with the exception of NeuStar staff such as Jim Casey, the 
NeuStar Director of Policy and Business Development that served as a panelist 
at the hearing).  

In the four months since you were convened as a policy body, I have yet to 
find on the NeuStar website any indication that your Council has ever met, 
and no minutes of any meetings have ever been posted.  You have not seen fit 
to provide the ccTLD manager with policy guidance relative to reserved names, 
nor to the currently undelegated name spaces (which prompted a recent 
amendment to the DoC SOW invoking an "interim policy"), and clearly you have 
offered no publicly-posted guidance at all with respect to policy 
considerations on how to best govern the kids.us namespace.

You have not posted any schedule for your meetings, nor are your names on the 
NeuStar website linked to contact email addresses so that you might be 
accessible and responsible to the public that you serve.

Is it your intent to actually be communicative and get some work done, or is 
this Council (half of which is populated by members of the registrar 
community) just another hoax and sham?

regards,
Danny Younger
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