Re: [gnso-osc-ops] DOI

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Avri,

This is rather hypothetical. You could just as well pre-confess to the 
possibility of using services originating from Elbonia (Lower), an 
underdeveloped economy, by an NGO not yet in existence, in a script 
not yet encoded in Unicode, in a language you don't yet know.
I think it unlikely that Indians will be considered economically 
distinct from the rest of North America, or Appalachia for that 
matter, and that the "developing countries" language, which appears to 
be suggestive, not proscriptive, in Recommendation 20, the substance 
of the SOAC AG, will extend to applications intending to serve the 
needs of North American Indians, or marginalized non-indigenous 
populations. Therefore, I see no _real_ "interest" to declare in the 
SOAC AG context. Fee reduction, ability to apply for an ASCII string, 
a ᎣᏏᏲ string, and a ᓂᓴᓕ string (under either (a) or (b) approaches) 
would be wicked useful. But as these are improbable, there is no 
material "interest" in advocating these as generally available to 
applications that do meet the eventual interpretation of the 
characterization in Recommendation 20.
So I _do_not_ declare an interest that does not currently exist, nor 
is likely to exist.
To pick another scab, when eligibility closed for a certain 
unaffiliated elected position, I asked ICANN Counsel for guidance, as 
my employ with CORE ended three or four days after the date at which a 
would-be candidate had to meet the unaffiliated condition. My 
non-affiliation was _certain_ at a date only days after a date 
certain, for an election that would not take place for months, for a 
responsibility or office that would not commence until 1 January, 2011.
The guidance ICANN Counsel offered was that status at the date certain 
was controlling.
Therefore, something as certain as a prospective interest a week in 
the future, or the prospective lack of interest, again, a mere week in 
the future, was not relevant to the issue of eligibility to stand for 
election.
I suggest that your approach is too speculative, though I'm not 
entirely happy with the guidance ICANN Counsel offered me only a few 
weeks ago, which is at least curable by revised SOI/DOI as material 
interests become actual rather than prospective.
Eric