Re: [ga] Response to your posting on the NC List

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

Why isn't the answer to go back to the concept of open Working Groups?
If honestly administered(*) then no one can say they were excluded, and
this gamesmanship won't be credible.  Of course, the price is that
membership won't be manipulable by the people trying to wire the results,
but you can't have everything.

(*) I know from my exclusion from one that this isn't inevitable, but
maybe we've learned something...

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Bret Fausett wrote:

> So here's the game I'd play if I were in charge of the registrars. I'd
> divide the 140 odd registrars into three groups, figuring that opposition
> from 40+ registrars is certainly the kind of thing that could kill a
> "consensus" policy. I'd steer the (G/D)NSO policy process as best I could
> with my single task force representative, asking the rest of my constituency
> to stay quiet. I'd see what the task force recommended to the NC. Regardless
> of the result, I'd figure that I could still make the result better for my
> registrar interests. I'd then ask my first block of registrars to weigh in
> with their vigorous opposition. We'd negotiate a little more at the NC
> level, make the process better for registrars and come up with a new
> recommendation for the Board. At this point, my second registrar block of 40
> would noisily complain about the result. We'd repeat the negotiations and
> make things even better for the Board vote. I'd still have 40 previously
> silent registrars to file an independent review if I remained unhappy with
> the result. 
> 
> That's not the way this is supposed to work, is it? Isn't there an
> obligation on impacted parties to come forward with their views as early as
> possible, preferably during the task force process via the task force
> representative?
> 
>           -- Bret
> 
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