Re: [gnso-consensus-wg] User/Non-Contracted Party vs Registrant

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Gee, i thought people were still trying to reach consensus.

if it is closed, then it is closed.

never mind.

a.

On 25 Jul 2008, at 17:04, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Alan,
> My understanding was that you were not convinced that we even had a  
> consensus report to submit. Have you changed your position?
> I think most of us involved here would be happy to include “user”  
> rather than “registrant” but why should the group give you something  
> you want in the report if your ultimate position is that we have no  
> consensus and hence, no real report? I would say you would need to  
> make a choice whether you are part of the “white smoke” coalition  
> and if you are not it seems odd to be making demands about  
> fundamental principles that should go into the report.
> From: owner-gnso-consensus-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-consensus-wg@xxxxxxxxx 
> ] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:58 AM
> To: gnso-consensus-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gnso-consensus-wg] User/Non-Contracted Party vs Registrant
> Importance: High
>
> I have said this a number of times, and we have agreed to it in  
> principle, but it never seems to make it into a draft.
> The Board adopted a large part of the BGC report, and this  
> (according to Roberto Gaetano) INCLUDED the definition of what we  
> are now calling Users or Non-Contracted Parties. This definition is  
> Registrant.
> Now because most of us happen to own (lease?) domains, we are often  
> technically registrants. But that is not how we see ourselves in  
> most of our discussions.
> The current By-Laws talk about Commercial and Non-Commercial USERS.  
> The adopted BGC report changed that.
> To make sure that the Board reverts to the current definition, it  
> must be EXPLICITLY in our report.  A simple statement such as "The  
> definition of the Non-Contracted House should be that of USER and  
> NON-CONTRACTED PARTY, and not the more restrictive "REGISTRANT".
> Alan