Re: [registrars] Budget Advisory Group

[Rob Hall <rob@momentous.ca>]

Michael,

Thank you for your thoughts.  It was news to me that you had concerns about 
last years group of us who represented the consistency.  I thought you had 
been supportive and indeed involved all along the way and I am disturbed to 
hear that you now are expounding the fact that you had "concerns" about the 
consistencies representation.

I would suggest sticking to the same process that occurred last year to 
pick the representatives.  If you recall, you announced a "budget 
committee" and asked for all those wishing to serve on it to attend a 
conference call and I believe you created a mailing list as well for those 
who wanted to receive the documents and participate.

This group then went on to pick the three representatives to the ICANN 
budget group.  While I would support an overall voting process should the 
group decide to go in that direction, I think it is important to form a 
small committee that can deal with these issues and then bring them back to 
the constituency as a whole.  Last year, I think we had about 9 people that 
participated in the committee.

Given that John is no longer with Dotster, we will need to find at least 
one new member (and perhaps 3).

Do you have the list of those on the mailing list from last year ?  Perhaps 
you could publish this as a historical record of what occurred last year 
and who exactly was represented on the constituencies committee.

I know that I would be willing to serve again, should the constituency so 
desire.

Rob.



At 05:22 PM 8/21/2001 -0400, Michael D. Palage wrote:
>Hello All:
>
>Listed below is a communication that I received from Stuart Lynn. ICANN is
>requesting three representatives from the registrar constituency to
>represent its viewpoints in the Budget Task Force. Stuart raises some pros
>and cons about keeping the representatives the same while simultaneously
>recognizing the benefits of new representatives.
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>I believe that in recognition of the many new representatives that have
>joined the constituency over the past couple of months that an open election
>similar to the last process be adopted. Limiting new members from
>participating seems inequitable. I believe that an election allows each
>candidate to express his strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, I am a little
>concerned that our last representative group included only North American
>based registrars. I think it is very important that we NOT lose sight of our
>diversity requirements when electing a block of people.
>
>Just my thoughts.
>
>Mike
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: M. Stuart Lynn [mailto:lynn@icann.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 5:09 PM
>To: michael@palage.com
>Subject: Budget Advisory Group
>
>
>Dear Michael:
>
>As you may recall, as part of the budget process, I appoint a Budget
>Advisory Committee to advise me during the formation and posting of
>the budget. This group is composed of appointees from the four
>constituencies that provide the bulk of ICANN's funding: the
>Registrars, gTLD Registries, ccTLD Registries, and RIR constituencies.
>
>I am writing to you to seek three appointees from the Registrars
>Constituency. Last year's three appointees were:
>
>Rob Hall, Momentus.ca
>Elana Broitman, register.com
>John Tai, Dotster.com
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>(although there were some changes part way through the year).
>
>Although it is up to the Registrars Constituency, I would point out
>that I believe it is helpful to your Constituency and it is certainly
>helpful to me to have some serious continuity in representation. This
>minimizes the learning curve. Whereas it does not make sense to
>formalize this, I do hope that you and your colleagues will take this
>advantage into consideration -- while recognizing, of course, that
>some turnover brings benefits, too.
>
>Thank you for your assistance. I do not expect the Budget Advisory
>Group will be meeting in Montevideo but I would hope for it to kick
>into gear shortly after.
>
>With regards
>Stuart
>--
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>__________________
>Stuart Lynn
>President and CEO
>ICANN
>4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
>Marina del Rey, CA 90292
>Tel: 310-823-9358
>Fax: 310-823-8649
>Email: lynn@icann.org



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