[wg-c] Re: [IFWP] Javier, what are you doing?

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

[reposted for Michael Froomkin}

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>[someone may need to post this to wg-c@dns.org for me, since I rather
>doubt I'm a member]
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>I agree that list management has suddenly become a crisis.
>
>There are too many lists.  This makes informing oneself hard.  It makes
>discussion fractured. It reduces the meaningfulness of consensus.
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>Not to mention that the lists are hard to subscribe to.  (I am utterly
>unclear if I am on any WG-A lists, or even an official member of WGA at
>this point.)  If you look at the archives of some lists, it seems as
>though all the postings are by one or two people.
>
>That said, I wonder who will claim there is not a rough consensus on the
>issue of the need for (some sort of) new gTLDs....
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>On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark C. Langston wrote:
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>> Javier, I'm confused.
>>
>>   First, you complain about people crossposting to wg-c as well as wg-c-1.
>>   Then, you personally post one of these crossposts to wg-c-1, even
>> though you've claimed that everyone there would have already received it
>> not once, but twice.
>> ( http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-c-1/Archives/msg00050.html ).
>>
>>   For the past day at least, conversations have been taking place regarding
>> the mechanism for determining consensus, without a decision on the
>> mechanism.
>>   Last night, you make a call for consensus on one of the questions before
>> wg-c-1 ( http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-c-1/Archives/msg00058.html ).
>> Before, I note, a co-chair for the WG exists, when the model currently
>> under consideration for determining consensus involves the chairs and
>> a Reporter (a position which also has not yet been filled).
>>
>>   Yesterday afternoon, I request to be added to wg-c-1, and a few
>> hours later, I request that I be added to wg-c-2.
>>   Last night, you add me only to wg-c-2, with no explanation.
>>
>>   I'm bothered enough that the pDNC has appointed you, a signatory of the
>> gTLD-MoU, a member of the BoT of ISOC, a member of the PAB and POC, as
>> the chair of the group that will decide questions regarding the existence
>> and management of gTLDs.  It troubles me further that you also control
>> the subscription processes surrounding this WG, which you've broken into
>> 4 seperate lists.
>>
>> What, exactly, is going on here?
>>
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