Re: [registrars] Motion to adopt Tasting Position Statement

["Jay Westerdal" <jwesterdal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Tim Ruiz did a great job summarizing it.

Tim you available to do it?

On 11/10/07, Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The motions and discussion make this out to be more complicated than
> the work requires. At this point, the Council has requested that we
> appoint someone to compile a report of the constituency views. This
> person need not represent our interests in any forum as the Council
> has chosen to use an open working group format in which there are no
> specific constituency representatives - anyone interested can
> participate.
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> The important thing now is to create this report that captures the
> views of the constituency. Whomever we appoint should be free to use
> whatever means appropriate to solicit and record these views.
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> On 9-Nov-07, at 5:32 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
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> > Tim,
> >> The Registrars Constituency (RC) has not reached Supermajority
> >> support for a particular position on Domain Name Tasting.
> > This puts a (process) conclusion ahead of any (policy) ballot. I
> > suggest not making (process) comments, after all, in theory we could
> > reach a two-thirds position among the voting RC members.
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> > I think we should put the stability and security issue up front.
> > Phish live for days, and the volume of tasting registrations makes
> > it wicked difficult to create mechanisms which rely upon this
> > critical temporal property -- registrations in the first tens of
> > hours of life -- to detect and change A records used in Phish. Part
> > of the energy for WHOIS comes from the claim that without WHOIS
> > Phish can't be caught. We don't want to make that belief more
> > credible than it already is.
> >
> > I'll talk to the anti-Phish TF folks and get back to the RC, unless
> > someone already has some text ready to go.
> >
> > Eric
> >
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> Ross Rader
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