RE: [wg-d] Interim measures: second thoughts

["David Schutt" <david@speco.com>]

If consensus is what's required to move a proposal out of a working group,
then yes, any significant group can torpedo the process.

One solution might be to disband the working group, and reconstitute it with
a simpler set of goals. The original stated goals of the group may have been
overly ambitious.

Another approach may be to encourage the reports mentioned in previous
posts, but rather than being the output of the working group, they should be
the *input* to the working group, very roughly analogous to the Internet
Draft document. A comparison of reasoned proposals might be revealing, and
could provide the basis for further work.

If the working group is to be disbanded and not reconstituted, I'm not sure
of the utility of position reports. The email archives would stand as a
record of the groups discussion and members positions.


David Schutt
Speco, Inc.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-wg-d@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-d@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
Jonathan Weinberg
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 2:38 PM
To: wg-d@dnso.org
Subject: [wg-d] Interim measures: second thoughts

<snip>

  Does it mean that any significant group opposing gTLD
expansion (or favoring only token expansion) can effectively veto that
process?  How do we approach this?


Jon