Re: [wg-review] The Number 1 Problem

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

1/5/01 5:17:42 PM, Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com> wrote:

>At 02:09 PM 1/5/01, Sotiropoulos wrote:
>While this is an important issue and one of great interest to many of us, 
>it is both outside any reasonable interpretation of the charter for this 
>WG, and off-topic for this thread. Could you help us focus on our mission - 
>whichever one of them we're operating under?

Greg et al.,

We can wrangle with issues till we're blue in the face.  We can discuss unrealistic options like consensus training for WGs.  We can go on about how we 
have a charter to fulfil.  We can go on and on and on...

HOWEVER, if the domain name definition issue were to be settled anytime soon, it would probably invalidate most (not all, but certainly most) of the 
symptom issues which arise as a result of its obscurity.  That is, it would clear up the very same issues we're so self-importantly proclaiming to be of 
penultimate importance...  Isn't there an old saying:  `Can't see the forest for the trees'?

BTW, I think it's interesting to note that although you state I'm going off topic, you post the follwing issues list in your very next mailing to the WG:

>1. Unrepresented constituents.
>2. Unrepresentative constituencies.
>3. Process does not encourage compromise among parties  with competing
>positions.
>4. The process is not producing adequate documents for the board.
>5. No agreed definition for "domain name"
>6. No agreed definition for "end user" and "real end user"
>7. Poor clarification of issues that ICANN has charter to address that
>directly affect "end users".
>8. Process does not encourage compromise among parties  with competing
>positions.
>9.  Arguable the weighting of constituencies (currently all are equal) on
>Names Council is inappropriate?  How can one decide what is appropriate and
>who decides?
>10. GA feel marginalized and powerless.

Did you read this list before posting it?  It seems I was indeed addressing one of the issues on this list, specifically #4, in case you missed it.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.






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