RE: [wg-review] Re: Re Clarification on Deadline

["Cindy Merry" <tomerrys@inter-linc.net>]

I agree with Karl.  Cindy Merry

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From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On Behalf
Of Karl Auerbach
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:01 PM
To: YJ Park (MINC)
Cc: Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com; Alejandro Pisanty, CUAED + FQ, UNAM;
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Subject: [wg-review] Re: Re Clarification on Deadline


On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, YJ Park (MINC) wrote:

> ... According to you, it sounds like the Board wants NC to come up
> with its recommendation report or whatever on this issue "ASAP"

Personally I'd prefer that the goal be an organized, well formed result
with a demonstrable degree of support.  I'm not sure that there is much
value in something less that is thrown together to meet an arbitrary
deadline.

The DNSO "problem" has been with us for two years, and it is a deep
problem.  From watching the "debate" it seems that it may take some more
stirring of the pot before things to start to thicken into something with
substance.

> Taking advantage of some board members' involvements with this group,
> I also want to ask them to clarify what really the Baord wants.

I can only say what I want - which is a DNSO that equally encompasses all
parties who are affected by decisions on DNS and which operates according
to well understood and widely accepted processes such that we can all feel
that no one who is willing to undertake the effort has been denied the
opportunity to make his/her case and have it fairly and openly considered.

At times deadlines are useful mechanisms to nudge people to agree.  I'm
not at all sure that this is one of those times... yet.

We do have to remember that the DNSO, like much of ICANN's structure, was
never fully discussed in any open forum.  So we are seeing the results of
several years of pent up frustration with a system that was imposed by
fiat.

My own sense is that this working group, like many of the other working
groups is hobbled because it is attempting to "herd cats".  This seems to
be a problem of just about every electronic forum that operates without
well defined control mechanisms.  In my first posting to this WG I
suggested that we really ought to try to use some formalized procedures -
formalized rules of procedure.  I again make that suggestion.

                --karl--


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