Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Board resolution on Vertical Integration

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/30/10 9:03 AM, Neuman, Jeff wrote:
> As the Chair of the PDP-WT, I would really appreciate these being captured and 
> submitted to the PDP-WT.

Work Groups formed for the purpose of development of changes to 
existing policy are not usefully re-purposed as vehicles for the 
development of novel policy.
Scope matters. Hijacking is harmful.

At the end of September, 6.5 months after this Working Group began 
work, the definition of "SRSU" is still not fixed, and a significant 
amount of time has been spent on this foreign topic.
More importantly, proposals have been crafted to exploit this 
ill-defined thing, and the development of consensus affected by a 
subject matter not in scope.
We don't know if we could have reached consensus if the proposals were 
restricted to public name spaces, where there are registrants, whether 
applied for and operated as "community-based" or as "standard" 
applications and subsequent operations. But we do know we did not with 
RACK+ excluding them, and JN2 and FT and CAM including them.
Had the foreign topic been a reduction in ICANN fee under Vertical 
Integration condition X, or any similar, the potential for harm to the 
primary purpose of the Working Group -- development of consensus on 
the subject matter specific to and explicit in the Working Group's 
charter -- would be just as present.
Eric