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[registrars] Re: Registrar Statement: What about an ability to state partial support?

  • To: "Werner Staub (CORE)" <werner.staub@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [registrars] Re: Registrar Statement: What about an ability to state partial support?
  • From: Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:42:29 -0400
  • Cc: Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>, registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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The problem with the Verisign settlement was the centralization of decision making/policy determination with the ICANN staff and board, not the GNSO. The only thing worse, in my opinion, than giving ICANN's staff a free hand to make policy, would be to give the registries a free hand to make policy. At least within the GNSO I have the opportunity to try and make a difference regarding what the policies should look like. I don't have the same opportunity when the staff or registries make these same decisions during settlement negotiations behind closed doors or in US courtrooms or in Washington D.C.

As far as expressing the diversity of views, anyone is free to submit their own comments as part of the public comment process. There is also the procedural requirement for the constituency to weigh in with a documented position. To the extent that CORE does not support the majority view, it is free to make their position known through the public comment and public forum processes.


Werner Staub (CORE) wrote:
Ross,

Many of us act under the impact of the offensive nature of
the Verisign settlement. This may hide to many of us just how
extremist the idea is to centralize policy-making across all
TLDs in the hands of the GNSO.

Now within the RC, we may find a solution the formal way with
friendly or unfriendly amendments.

But it might be good for the RC to offer a solution that
lets registrars express minority views, if need be, and allows
for the diversity of views. In this fashion, we still have a
consensus document - as opposed to a majority view document.

So, what about allowing a constituency member to support the
document whilst stating that it does not support a given portion
of the document?

Regards,

Werner






Ross Rader wrote:
Tim Ruiz wrote:

Ross, I agree for the most part. But I don't think suggested amendments
need to hold anything up. If the TF reps consider the amendment friedly
it can simply be incorporated. If not, the unfriendly amendment can be
included as an option in the vote.

Ahh yes. I completely forgot that there was a process for dealing with amendments. In this case, the body of the motion isn't the position statement. Robert's Rules would typically prevent an amendment from modifying the text of an attached document, in this case, the position statement. But I think it would be useful and appropriate to ignore this for the purpose of this vote (while avoiding setting any precedents). This is one of the reasons why its so important for each of us to make sure that we get involved in the comment periods as much as our busy schedules permit. The voting process isn't a great way of building consensus around a document - the rules are designed for forward movement, not compromise.

In any event your proposal sounds like a decent way forward under the conditions that I outlined above.






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