Re: [ga] Maintenance and Management of the GA

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George and all,

  All very fine suggestions here George.  However for those that are not members
of any constituency due to the arcain constituency membership requirements 
requiring
in some cases PII information for example, how will they be able to Openly and
Transparently participate?  Perhaps Denise can answer this question...

-----Original Message-----
>From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sep 25, 2009 8:54 AM
>To: Thomas Narten <narten@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: ga <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ga] Maintenance and Management of the GA
>
>
>Hi Thomas,
>
>--- On Fri, 9/25/09, Thomas Narten <narten@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I would welcome a forum where general discussion of matters
>> of
>> importance to ICANN could be discussed in a thoughtful
>> manner. But
>> this list clearly does achieve such a goal, by almost any
>> metric one
>> could imagine. (My favorite metric is that Jeff Williams
>
>I believe you meant "doesn't achieve".
>
>> dominates
>> this list in terms of number of postings, which pretty much
>> says it
>> all.)
>
>Exactly, thanks for running the weekly reports. Are you able to run one 
>massive report for all time periods since you've kept track?
> 
>> Question:
>> 
>> Does anyone else besides me think that the GNSO should
>> simply
>> acknowledge the uselessness of this list and shut the list
>> down?
>> 
>> And if so, how do we make it so?
>
>I think the best approach might be to let it continue, but create a competing 
>list. Given the competing list, as previously discussed, most people who are 
>serious and involved in constituencies would unsubscribe from this one and 
>join the new one. And perhaps you can continue running the automated report on 
>this list and add a "reminder" to any newbie that finds it that they should 
>join a constituency to join the new list.
>
>Kind of like how ICANN continues to let .su stay in the root, and how IPv4 
>will continue for decades. :)
>
>I'm sure some will continue to subscribe to the GA list (since the public 
>might bring up important issues that those in constituencies might have 
>missed), and then forward those issues to the new list for debate.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>George Kirikos
>http://www.leap.com/

Regards,

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