Re: [wg-review] Objectives of this WG

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

Philip --

	If the NC insists on retaining the Jan 15 deadline, it will render
its assignment of work to this WG a joke.  The task force in this matter
(which was composed of NC members, and which one would think was capable
of acting quickly) was established on August 7.  It took *four and
one-half months* (until December 21) to generate a list of questions, and
to cause this WG to be established.  With that background, to insist that
this WG produce the answers to those questions (a much harder task) within
four weeks after its announcement, including the Christmas and New Year's
holidays, is ludicrous.  The task was made harder by the decision to
announce the WG on the ICANN-announce list, thereby ensuring that the bulk
of the WG's members are unfamiliar with the WG process, but I believe that
it would have been impossible in any event.  If the NC is unwilling to
provide this group with a reasonable deadline, I for one will withdraw
from the group.  Whatever small credibility my participation offers, I
have no interest in lending it to an enterprise that is foreordained, by
its terms of reference and allotted life, to fail.

Jonathan Weinberg
Professor of Law, Wayne State University
co-chair, WG-C
weinberg@msen.com




On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Philip Sheppard wrote:

> I have just joined this WG and am concerned that, with a deadline of 15
> January, discussion is unfocused. To help please see below the Names Council
> decision in the draft summary of the last meeting which established this WG:
> 
> "Decision D4:
> - establish a Review Working Group, chaired by Y.J. Park
> - make the "terms of reference" "responding to the Names Council Review Task
> Force questionnaire"
> - make the lifetime of the WG January 15th
> - ask the group to report by January 15th to the NC Review Task Force.
> - issue a press release immediately to encourage participation in this WG. "
> 
> That is it. The terms of reference are very simple. Please could the group
> focus on providing a response to the questionnaire produced by the Names
> Council Review Task Force. There are12 days left to respond.
> 
> Philip Sheppard.
> 
> 
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