[registrars] WLS vote in Bucharest by Registrars

[Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>]

Hello All,


> > In addition, I understand that in the Registrar Constituency a vote
> > was taken on whether to support the report or not and the result was
> > 13 in favor of it, 10 against.

That is not correct.  A straw poll was taken of attending registrars.
13 voted in favour of the report from the Names Council taskforce (which
recommended that WLS not be approved)
9 (by my notes) voted against the report of the Names Council
1 abstention

Tim Denton has previously posted the minutes of that meeting to the
registrars list on 
26 June 2002.

At the Bucharest meeting it was planned to send the document for vote via
the registrars mailing list.  This did not happen.

I understand that the Task Force recommendations are likely to go out for
public comment before being voted on by the Names Council.

The Registrars should also vote formally on this, so that the names council
reps can represent the views of the constituency.

On the basis of the straw poll above it seems as though 56% of those present
voted in favour of WLS.  This was not a clear consensus to me, but it is a
difficult issue.  

We had to vote on the names council task force report as a whole.
I personally don't accept the WHOLE report, but accept many statements
within it in regard to delete issues.  I commented on some of the statements
at the public forum in Bucharest.  In particular I do not believe that
approving WLS will significantly reduce competition in the domain name
market.

Whether WLS as a new service is good or bad, I will let our customers
decide.  We have not done any market testing of this service, and it is not
Melbourne IT's highest priority.

Regardless of any personal view, I will represent the views of the
constituency whatever the   majority believe.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin
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