Re: [council] Issues Report on specified Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy issues

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

On 24 okt 2007, at 14.02, Rosette, Kristina wrote:

> Not to make it more complicated, but when would we take public  
> comment or have public discussion?  On Saturday?  During the  
> Wednesday meeting?

While there is no requirement on taking public comment before voting  
on starting a PDP, which is what we are talking about here, I prefer  
to allow for comment whenever possible.  In this case, we have the  
luxury of extensive public comment on a multiplicity of RAA issues  
that we can add to whatever comment Council members can collect from  
their constituencies.  Should any of the other topics go shorter on  
the Wednesday open meeting, I will definitely open up the floor for  
comments on this topic.  It is just that we already have a crowded  
schedule, so I am not confident that we can fit it in.
It should be noted that if we decide to move the vote to our first  
teleconference after the LA meeting, we will not do a public comment  
period first.  That comes later in the process, whatever option we  
take on the process.
> Are we creating difficulties for ourselves w/r/t the community if  
> we use an open discussion/vote format for everything else on  
> Wednesday except this issue?
The format on Wednesday is experimental.  I am expecting comments  
later on whether the experiment works and whether it should be  
repeated or altered.
We really have 3 different  types of issue being covered in this  
meeting:
2 issues, IGO and Domain Tasting,  where we taking comment before  
initiating a PDP.  This is not required, but I am curious to see how  
this goes.  Given that both of these are somewhat controversial as to  
whether a PDP is even appropriate, I think the public comment may be  
very helpful.
1 Issue, IDN ccTLDs where we have a GNSO repsonse to a Board request  
that we have not yet received any public comment on.  This is not a  
PDP and there is no established process for this, but it would  
certainly be valuable to get some open discussion going.  I am not  
sure whether this is ready to come to a vote yet, but others think it  
is time.  So this is among the things we need to discuss.
1 Issue, whois, that has had 7 years of work, sweat and tears, has  
had multiple comment periods and is still as raw as it ever was.  It  
is sort of inconceivable that we could take our multiple votes on  
this one without one more set of face to face public comments.
While I think it would be good to get some face to face comments  
before voting on the Inter-Registrar transfer policy PDP, I don't  
think it is critical as so much has been said before and I have not  
picked up a great deal of controversy yet on whether this PDP should  
be done or not.  There certainly is not anything like the controversy  
involved in either the IGO or the Domain Tasting PDP decisions.

Thanks
a.