[registrars] RE: Registrar Constituency Response to the VGRS WLS Proposal

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Chuck,

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> Rick,
>
> My apologies.  I actually wasn't intending to quote your statement,
> hence the absence of quotation marks. But my questions still stand
> because some specific data with regard to what the following quote means
> would be helpful for me in evaluating next steps in the process: "The
> overwhelming position of the RC - in fact the unanimous vote of all
> those taking a position - is to oppose the WLS."

The WLS Proposal you sent to the DNSO Registrars Constituency -- which is
not every accredited registrar, just the members of the Constituency.
Non-Members can not participate in our calls and can not vote; hence The
Registrars Constituency is a subset of all Accredited Registrars.

We all know you know this from your extensive experience with ICANN. Why
you want to play this game is beyond me; especially when you were invited
to the tele-conference but declined. Silly games Chuck, especially when we
need clear and direct communications.


[snip]

> I am not trying to be antagonistic.  When I reviewed the minutes of what
> I believe is the teleconference call in which the vote was taken, I saw
> a tremendous amount of information communicated by registrars that could
> be used to improve the WLS proposal.  But in the response you sent me,
> none of those constructive suggestions seem to be included except
> possibly comments about price.

I am sure you also received a "tremendous amount of information
communicated by registrars that could be used to improve the WLS proposal"
as individual registrar submissions.  The Registrars during their call,
could not find a common ground on which way to improve the WLS proposal.
Apparently there were as many ways to improve the proposal as there are
participating members.

The one thing the participatants could agree on is that they didn't like
your version of the WLS proposal, it needs to address the concerns we
highlighted in our response.

The constituency will be forming a team next week to develop a white paper
on this subject, where we will discuss more in depth improvements to the
WLS, and alternatives.

We would like to see you and your team address just some of the issues
that the registrars highlighted individually and in our consensus statement

-rick