Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Caution about results from Original Poll

["Hammock, Statton" <shammock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice Carlton. +1

Statton 
Statton Hammock 
Sr. Director, Law, Policy & Business Affairs 
Network Solutions

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From: owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx 
To: Jothan Frakes 
Cc: Neuman, Jeff ; Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wed Jun 16 17:46:30 2010
Subject: Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Caution about results from Original Poll 


"Free trade seemed to me like a write in vote, almost like writing in the name 
homer simpson when casting your vote if you don't like any of the parties or 
candidates during election time."


This is an interesting observation.  I truly believe regulation ought not to be 
on whim or caprice.  And in the case of new gTLDs - something we are constantly 
told is evolved thinking - the a priori cross-ownership disabilities represent 
just that. 


Whatever makes the 15% cap - or any other number for that matter - the magic 
number for which VI becomes dangerous to everything it sees?  2%?  Peachy!  
10%? Good to go!  13%?  For they are jolly good fellows!  15%?  Whoa! Gotta 
keep my eye on you!  16%?  You common crook, you!!


And I'm making it as simple as it can be.


Some soundings say it is historical but for all we know, it may well represent 
the musings of  some slack-jawed clerk somewhere in the bureaucracy...or the 
rattles of a simple mind. Let me hear a successful contradiction to that and I 
will change my mind. 


Carlton Samuels

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jothan Frakes <jothan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


        I wasn't confused at all about the poll.

        These are complex issues and it was a matter of picking the proposal 
that had the most of what one agrees with and the least of what one disagreed 
with.

        It would be inappropriate, I think, to take the results of the poll as 
anything indicative of group conscience without indicating it was a rough poll.

        Free trade seemed to me like a write in vote, almost like writing in 
the name homer simpson when casting your vote if you don't like any of the 
parties or candidates during election time.

        The newer, atomic poll seems a wise place to gauge the group. 

        On a lighter note, I concur with Jeff on his assessment of the chaos 
that ensues with ice cream and 5 year olds.  I think if we could have hamster 
wheels at these birthday parties that could be tied to generators, many energy 
problems could be lessened.  But let's not keep on that topic for fear I be 
branded a proponent of child labor.  Just thinking about the environmental 
impact.

        jothan frakes

        

                On Jun 16, 2010 7:01 AM, "Neuman, Jeff" 
<Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
                
                

                All,

                 

                I do believe the first poll on the proposals was in fact useful 
and a really good exercise.  And I am not just saying that because the JN2 
proposal got the most “yes” votes.  My caution, however, is that some are now 
describing the “Free Trade” proposal as the one that most people support 
because of the number of people that either said “yes” or “can live with.”  I 
do not believe that view is entirely accurate.  This is because both the JN2 
proposal and the RACK+ proposal both dealt with limitations on 
ownership/control.  People were divided on how exactly to limit 
ownership/control, but not on the concept of whether to apply restrictions.

                 

                The analogy I use is my oldest daughter’s birthday party this 
year where the kids had a choice of “Mixed Fruit”, “Chocolate Ice Cream” or 
“Vanilla Ice Cream”.   7 kids (surprisingly) chose mixed fruit, 6 kids chose 
chocolate ice cream and 6 kids chose “Vanilla Ice Cream”.  So of the 19 kids at 
the party, more of them chose Fruit than any other choice, so that would be a 
true statement.  However, it would also be true that more kids choice “Ice 
Cream” in general instead of fruit.

                 

                Here we have the same type of thing.  Taken one way, more 
people chose the Free Trade Proposal than chose RACK.  But, looked at a 
different way, more people chose to apply limits on cross ownership/control 
than chose Free Trade.

                 

                We just need to remember the ice cream/mixed fruit analogy 
going forward.

                 

                P.S.  Never have a party with 19 screaming 5 year olds and 
offer them ice cream….very messy and the sugar high afterwards is a killer J

                 

                 

                 

                Jeffrey J. Neuman 
                Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
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