RE: [registrars] Ross's Motion - Suggeseted Amendment

["Rob Hall" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok ... I will take a crack at it.

Can someone remind me how the process within ICANN now works in the GNSO ?

I think I remember that it is supposed to be a bottom up consensus type of
thing.  That would imply that a single constituency could start the process
of creating policy and setting up a task force etc.

If I am right, can someone shoot me the details, and I will craft the motion
to get the ball rolling immediately on this important issue.

If not, we probably need a motion to ask the board or GNSO council to do
something immediate.

Ross:  I agree it needs to suspend the current .com implementation.  I am a
little softer on the .museum folks, as I understand they have been doing it
for a while, and frankly, none of us gave a damn.  Given that they did it
with ICANN permission, I see no reason to back step them as well.  Just
Verisign, who ignored process and went ahead on their own ... damn the
torpedoes.

Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:25 PM
To: Rob Hall
Cc: Registrars Mail List
Subject: Re: [registrars] Ross's Motion - Suggeseted Amendment


On 9/18/2003 1:16 PM Rob Hall noted that:

 > Would you consider an amendment to your motion that refers the matter
to the
 > GNSO for immediate study, and suspends the recent Verisign implementation
 > until the study is completed ?

If it suspends all gTLD implementations until the study has been
completed and a process has been followed to carefully gauge the impact
of the proposed change on the technical and user communities, then yes.
I don't want to be in a situation in a few weeks or months where the
SSAC issues some findings and Verisign or Neulevel says "Thanks for the
input, we'll take it under advisement" and ignores the interests and
wishes of the community.

Elana and I talked earlier about essentially the same thing, but I've
had a hard time framing it in words - can you put forward some proposed
text that we could incorporate?

As well - Jim Archer - if you're listening, now's the time to get those
"whereas's" in...

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                        -rwr