[gnso-pednr-dt] Plans for the new year

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to wish all WG members the very best for the New Year.

Marika has pointed out to me that the deadline for publishing for the 
San Francisco meeting is 21 Feb 2011. That leaves us just 7 meetings 
(including today's) if we want to publish a final report in time for 
San Francisco (and I know that none of us want to extend this process 
more than that).
To increase the challenge, I have a conflict part way into today's 
meeting, and would like to make this one a short one.
For today's agenda, I would like to review the current status of our 
proposals and look at what we need to do to complete our work. Since 
I will have a *LOT* more time now that I am not an ALAC member and 
ALAC Vice-Chair, I will be happy to take the lead in drafting our 
formal proposals, but I will be looking for a couple of volunteers 
who I can bounce wording of of as I go along. Part of our work first 
is to decide what methodology we will use to determine the level of 
consensus that we will indicate in our final report for each 
recommendation. WG rules require that we not just use the people on 
an individual teleconference to do this, so we will likely have to 
resort to a poll of some sort open to all WG members.
On one of our key points, there has been no list traffic on the note 
sent out be James during the Cartagena meeting regarding the GoDaddy 
statistics. The original message and a reply from me are in our 
mailing list archives, but due to embedded HTML, they are nearly 
unreadable, so I will resend them to the list after sending this message.
Since this is a crucial part of our work, I think it demands that all 
WG members have an opportunity to discuss this.
During the meeting there was a strong support for a 10-day period by 
the registrars present, as well as the one registry rep present. 
Among users, Mikey said he supported this as well, but wanted to 
ensure that there was still adequate time to recover after the domain 
was blacked out or were redirected (if I have mis-stated his 
reservation, I am sure he will correct it here). My concern was that 
the data did not at all confirm our general belief that the 
redirection of the address was a crucial way that registrants were 
reminded that the domain had expired and that may call into question 
whether the GoDaddy statistics are fully representative (since they 
typically offer registrant user auto-renewal as a default, perhaps 
they see more renewals at day one than some other registrars may). In 
any case, I think that it is important that all WG members consider 
this and I would like to schedule some time on next weeks (Jan 11) 
meeting to discuss this in full.
Again, best wishes for 2011 and I hope that most of you can 
participate in todays call as well as those over the next two months.
Alan