RE: Accreditation guidelines

[edyson@edventure.com (Esther Dyson)]

Thanks, both of you.  

Please note that whatever we do vis a vis accreditation, it will be done
with the benefit of a lot of public comment between Monday and March 4.  It
is the same public comment that the full board would hear if it were in
place.  Most of the public comment I'm hearing definitely wants us to move
ahead, *with* public accountability.

Esther

At 05:19 PM 04/02/99 +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>Michael,
>
>You wrote:
>> Roberto Gaetano a écrit:
>> > 
>> > Michael,
>> > <snip>
>> > My understanding is that the registrar accreditation guidelines are to
>> be
>> > intended with reference to the testing phase of the NSI shared system,
>> which
>> > is planned to start long before the elected ICANN Board will be in
>> place.
>> > So, I don't see much choice (except if we want to delay the test - but
>> who
>> > can benefit from a delay?).
>> 
>> You know as well as I do, from the past year's bitter experience, that
>> nothing ends up being temporary or interim or experimental.
>> 
>> I don't understand you, Roberto. Is it just that you feel you have to
>> object
>> to every post of mine, or are you really in favor of the interim ICANN
>> board
>> setting registrar (and registry?) accreditation policy? That's a political
>> position that it amazes me to hear you taking.
>> 
>I object to every post to which I feel I have to add something to the
>debate.
>If it happens to be yours, that means that we are both providing food for
>thought to the others, which in principle is a good thing.
>
>To the specific post, I am in favour of deciding in a timely manner who are
>the Registrars that will be included in test phase that is supposed to start
>in April.
>This said, I don't see any alternative to ICANN picking them up. If you have
>a different proposal, please say so.
>
>> Maybe the simple explanation for all these recent posts of yours, where
>> you
>> seem to be sucking up to the board, is that you're manoeuvering for some
>> expected future position. Is that it?
>> 
>My salary is fully paid by ETSI, and in this debate I have the non
>negligeable advantage of being able to say what I think without having to
>worry about who will like it and who won't.
>About the question of open Board meetings, just to make an example, I am
>against the current ICANN's postion, and I am saying it without any problem.
>As for my plans for the future, I wholeheartedly hope that this circus will
>finish as soon as possible, and to be able to go back to my normal job of
>Development Manager, working more reasonable hours, and have more time for
>my family and my music ;>)
>
>Waiting for this miracle to happen, may I wish you all the best.
>Roberto
>


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