Re: [alac] verisign-settlement

[Izumi AIZU <aizu@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bret for your quick take which is helpful.

At 22:44 05/12/12 -0800, you wrote:
> I am disappointed in these two reports. The biggest disappointment is the 
> inexact use of the English language. Both reports rely almost entirely on 
> the passive voice. (Non-English speakers, please forgive me.)

Don't worry. Rather, we appreciate your assessment, as we do not grasp the 
details
of English languages.

> For example, most of the reports are written in the following style: 
> "There was acknowledgment of....", "there appears to be broad recognition 
> that...", "It was also noted that...", "Concern was expressed that...", 
> etc. Such passive statements do not identify the speaker, the speaker's 
> interest group (if any), or whether the speaker's comment was typical of 
> other comments from the same or other interest groups. The fact that the 
> public comments are not sourced or weighted serves to obscure a few areas 
> on which I believe the community found consensus (such as the relationship 
> between price caps and presumptive renewal).
>
> I also have concerns about the accuracy of the report. For example, look 
> at this statement:
>
>    "Regarding registrants, there was some expression that there might
>    be some negative effects due to the potential price increases, but,
>    the majority across constituencies expressed that the increase in
>    cost was negligible when compared to the value of a domain name
>    registration."
>
> ICANN Staff appears to be saying that a majority of registrants believe 
> that the price increase is negligible. That certainly was not the 
> statement of the ALAC, and I would be surprised if a "majority" would 
> agree with this.

I think their rhetoric is "majority across constituencies"
and  with the exception of ALAC, NCUC, and Biz users, the majority means the
service providers, not users, nor registrants. But yes this is quite mis-leading
and dangerous as it attempts to quantify different groups into one basket
without differentiating the nature of the each subgroups.

best,

izumi

> As far as next steps, I'll spend time this week comparing the report to 
> the ALAC statement and some of the other statements I found compelling, 
> and I hope others will do the same. I hope that we will be able to submit 
> a "comment on the comments" sometime soon.
>
>            Bret