RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] the "it excludes some applicants" argument

[Milton L Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> with apologies to Milton, I was the naive one in NCSG discussions about
> the PDP vote who thought it was possible for you all to abandon the
> years of back and forth and actually come to compromise.  i thought the
> principle of bottom-up decision making was important enough to the
> participants to think they could compromise.
> 
> a.
> 

It's true - my initial position was that DAGv3 conditions would apply to the 
initial round and we needed a PDP to settle the major policy issues regarding 
SRSU, SRMU, VI and CO going forward. 

Avri was the more optimistic one who thought we could resolve those big issues 
in a few months. 

While Avri was obviously wrong about that, it's still not clear whether we are 
not better off for having tried to resolve these issues in time for the initial 
round, so that all rounds of new applicants are on equal footing and more new 
entry can be encouraged. It's also clear that staff, ICANN, GAC and USG are in 
no hurry and it is not this VI group that is holding things up. Can you say 
"MOPO?"

--MM