Re: [wg-review] Document: Procedure to Establish Consensus

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:59:24AM -0500, Joanna Lane wrote:
> 
> Danny Younger wrote: <snip>
> 
> ICANN, by way of its Public Forums, Working Groups, General Assembly, and
> ample mechanisms for public comment, provides venues for dialogue that are
> nominally adequate to convey the positions of all interested parties; a new
> constituency is not needed merely to express a new set of opinions.  In
> recent months the public has used these vehicles to express their outrage
> 
> 
> 
> [Joanna Lane] Would you please explain to this member which are the
> mechanisms and venues ICANN has made available to individuals over the last
> 3 months to engage in dialogue with other individuals and to convey my/ our
> position to ICANN? Thank you.

The GA list has been open for nearly two years.

Also see http://forum.icann.org.  For every major topic, ICANN puts up
another forum, and if you look at the "hot topics" (eg, new gTLDS) you
will find very extensive dialog between individuals.  It's a threaded, 
web-based system, something that some people have expressed a strong 
preference for (personally I prefer email, but I have a good mail 
program that threads email).  There will almost certainly be a forum 
for the DNSO review, open for a month of public comment and dialog.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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