Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] public comments -- outline/points for the report

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/24/10 11:51 AM, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> dear all,
>
> one of my homework assignments was to come up with a starting point for 
> language about the public comments.  here are the key points that i think we 
> want to make.
>
> -- thank those who submitted the comments
>
> -- the working group reviewed the public comments with an eye to finding 
> information that would change the views expressed in the Initial Report or move 
> the group closer to consensus
When did the working group conduct this review?

Why would the review be limited to "finding information that would 
change the views expressed in the Initial Report or move the group 
closer to consensus", as neither the mandate of the working group, nor 
of comments on the work product of the working group, are limited to 
some policy for which consensus was imaginable (though data was not) 
between Nairobi and some point after Brussels and before Cartagena?

> -- the comments did not move us closer to consensus
This isn't the relevant issue. Did they inform us? Yes, Brett raised 
the point that our treatment of "registrars" has not distinguished 
between registrars such as AOL, which appear to only serve the 
corporate goals of AOL as a registrant, and registrars which serve 
registrants generally. I made the point early on that "shell 
registrars" were not what we should consider as integrating entities, 
which is only one form of registrar vs registrars distinction. Brett 
raised another, so the entire range of "what is a registrar" as 
opposed to "what is an ICANN registrar contract", has been overlooked.
If we placed conditions on registrars, we might find the objections to 
integration altered. We don't know that, so this is an area which we 
had insufficient time to explore.
There may be other examples.


> -- the comments will be included in the Phase I Final Report as a resource for 
> the working group as it continues its work in Phase II
>
> let's tune these points up and then we can hand them off to Margie for 
> insertion into the report.
>
> thoughts?
You now have mine.

Eric

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