RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] Another drafting effort -- "Response to DAGv4 2% limitation"

[Milton L Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxx>]

Mikey,
How on earth can you say there is a consensus around a 15% threshold??

That number has been attacked repeatedly, rejected by the majority of the WG in 
an exiting poll, and exposed repeatedly as an arbitrary, plucked- 
out-of-the-air dividing line lacking in any economic, regulatory of theoretical 
justification.

--MM


From: owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Mike O'Connor
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 8:47 AM
To: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-vi-feb10] Another drafting effort -- "Response to DAGv4 2% 
limitation"

hi all,

during the last call i abruptly changed my mind about the need to launch a 
"reaction to current DAGv4" paragraph -- going with Amadeu's suggestion that we 
just do a poll instead.  now i've changed my mind back -- i think we still need 
a paragraph or two to describe the question and frame it for us to vote on.  so 
i've appointed myself the convener of a little sub-group to write this section 
and invite anybody who's interested to join me (just chime in on the list if 
you see something that needs to be fixed).

here's a sketch of the language i'm thinking we need to write -- i don't think 
this needs to be real long.

- the group needs more time to arrive at a consensus view of the larger issue 
of VI and cross-ownership,

- but there is [some kind of consensus, to be determined with a poll] that the 
current 2% limitation in DAGv4 is unworkably low and needs, at a minimum, to be 
increased in order to align with the ownership-disclosure requirements for 
public companies around the world (Jeff Neuman's point -- jazzed up with the 
need to accommodate more than just US securities law).

- there was also [some kind of consensus, to be determined with a poll] that 
setting the threshold at 15% was desirable in that it would be similar to 
current practice in most existing TLDs

anybody want to help me tune this up?

mikey


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