Re: [ga] List Rules

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:
> Hello Eric,
>
> As much as I like motions, we would in a better
> position if we could draft an issues paper laying out
> the pros and cons of the AGP.
On data point about AGP:

I was on the board when it was voted in as part of a massive contract (I 
voted against, but for other reasons, most notably that the then DNSO 
had decided against the contracts.)
What is interesting from the point of AGP is that it was never brought 
to the attention of the board by staff or anyone else.
In other words the only way anyone on the board would have noticed the 
existence of the AGP (one of several grace periods defined in those 
contracts) would have been to discover it in the mountain of paper and 
appendices.  Let's just say that I am not aware that anybody noticed, 
much less appreciated the implications.
So it is reasonable to come to the conclusion that ICANN's board did not 
make an informed decision about AGP.  If anything, the words "grace 
period" tended to mean "Redemption Grace", which is something quite 
separate and apart from AGP.
What I am getting back is this: typically one gives respect to decisions 
already made.  However, it is open to discussion whether the AGP choice 
made by the board, being a choice made by default rather than reasoned 
discourse, deserves that presumption.
                --karl--