RE: [soac-mapo] GAC Invititation

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First I heard of “ALAC/GAC conversation (really, a yet-informal working group) 
that already exists”.

 

Chuck

 

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Evan Leibovitch
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:30 PM
To: Gomes, Chuck
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Subject: Re: [soac-mapo] GAC Invititation

 

 

On 22 July 2010 15:46, Gomes, Chuck <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have heard indirectly that a GAC member does not think that GAC members are 
invited to participate in this discussion group.


The GAC/ALAC sub-group on MAPO -- a focused followup on the broader GAC/ALAC 
meeting -- was deliberately small, only four people from each AC, enough to sit 
around a table and make eye contact. That was presumed (probably correctly) to 
be able to move faster and more flexibly than a GAC/ALAC committee of the 
whole, so to speak.

It was working well.

Then comes this list, the idea of which was certainly never bounced off ALAC 
before creation (don't know if anyone asked the GAC). Before this list even saw 
its first posting there were 24 members from GNSO alone; hardly a level playing 
field for a couple of GAC or ALAC members to wander into. Rather than re-invent 
something from scratch and hope *they'll* show up, why not offer to send some 
people into the ALAC/GAC conversation (really, a yet-informal working group) 
that already exists?

Right now -- to someone who's been engaged with the GAC on MAPO since Nairobi 
-- this mailing lists seems like more than a little NIH 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here> , Before re-inventing the 
wheel, did anyone here even ask the ACs to see if anything was already in place?

The other good thing about keeping such a group small is that it may be easier 
to bring together F2F should the rumoured "TLD summit" become reality.

Of course, GNSO has the option of forcing clarity within its grasp. Repeal Rec 
6, make the GAC unambiguously say what it wants, and end the speculation.



-- 
- Evan