Re: [gnso-dow123] Final Preliminary TF Report on purpose ofWhois & Whois contacts

[Jordyn Buchanan <jordyn.buchanan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I'm going to clarify slightly and disagree slightly.

One of the requirements for a preliminary report is that we include
the vote of the task force.  My reading of the PDP is that it is not
necessary for the task force to vote to publish a report--that is an
inevitable result of the PDP process.  Rather, you vote to indicate
your support or opposition to a policy proposition.  The PDP also
provides for a mechanism to publish a minority viewpoint.  In this
case, we essentially have a "tie", so there is no clear majority
versus minority viewpoint.  As a result, the report includes the two
alternative formulations on equal footing.

We do still need to include the task force vote, however.  Rather than
choosing one formulation as the primary formulation and allowing
people to vote for or against it (making the other formulation the
minority formulation for those that vote against the primary one), I
thought it would be most straightforward to simply allow people to
vote

I believe that the vote is fairly just a matter of completing the
requirement of the PDP, and that report already correctly chracterizes
the support for the various formulations, but I do believe that a vote
is required as a necessary precursor to publishing the report.

Jordyn

On 1/13/06, Maria Farrell <maria.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> A few words by way of explanation for the task force vote.
>
> The task force vote is to approve the report as a whole (i.e. not to endorse
> a particular formulation) and it's necessary to allow the report to move to
> the public comments stage.
>
> At one of the task force meetings pre-Vancouver, it was decided to get
> public comments on the formulations to help the task force move ahead with
> them.  I have a vague notion that that might have been Marilyn's idea, but
> in any case, the task force all agreed that this would be the most helpful
> thing to do at this point.
>
> So we're now at the point in the process where the staff manager has
> compiled the preliminary task force report, and the task force needs to vote
> to approve the report and publish it for public comments.
>
> All the best, Maria
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milton Mueller [mailto:Mueller@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:22 PM
> To: jordyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; maria.farrell@xxxxxxxxx; metalitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gnso-dow123] Final Preliminary TF Report on purpose ofWhois &
> Whois contacts
>
> I have to seize this rare opportunity to agree with Steve. The report as it
> stands states which constituency supports which Whois purpose formulation.
> What would we be voting on?
>
> >>> "Steve Metalitz" <metalitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1/12/2006 1:54 PM >>>
> Why are we voting?  Doesn't the report already state which constituency
> supports which formulation?   I thought the idea was to have a
> preliminary report that we would support unanimously.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jordyn Buchanan
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:33 PM
> To: Maria Farrell
> Cc: gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [gnso-dow123] Final Preliminary TF Report on purpose of Whois &
> Whois contacts
>
> Thanks, Maria.
>
> I'd also like to kick off voting by e-mail in the hopes we can get it
> wrapped up rapidly as well.
>
> Please send to Maria and myself (and the list if you'd like) an e-mail
> indicating whether you support one or the other of the formulations, or
> both, or neither.  We will log each participating task force members'
> vote and include it with the published report.
>
> Jordyn
>
> On 1/12/06, Maria Farrell <maria.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Ahead of next week's task force meeting, attached is the revised and
> > final (barring further task force discussions, of course) Preliminary
> > Task Force Report on the Purpose of Whois and of the Whois Contacts.
> > It incorporates Kathy's comments from yesterday as there were no
> > objections to them on the list.
> > It will be published on the website in both a html and .pdf version.
> > All the best, Maria
> >
>
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