Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] 2.19-3

[Andrew Mack <amack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Avri and all,

I agree with a number of the things said in earlier comments.  Two points stick 
out where I believe the wording of the report go well beyond the discussion we 
have and should be amended:

1) to the question of whether entrepreneurs from difficult markets would be 
eligible, this was the gist of what seemed like a very strong consensus over 
the 
course of some months -- a consensus led and articulated by the WG members from 
and with the greatest experience in those markets.  I think the poll mis-states 
the views of the group and we should discuss

2) on IDN support, the majority view called for endorsement from the community, 
but as Elaine and others have said, wording that calls for some sort of 
endorsement from community, NGO AND local companies is likely impractical and 
was not what we discussed over these many months.  In both cases, the WG called 
for a connection to the community, but creating a standard asking for the 
endorsement by all three groups is not what the group has called for.  I'd like 
to suggest this language should be changed, at least to and/or and in both 
cases 
I'd prefer to see language something like "endorsement from community groups, 
NGOs or companies from the script-linguistic group" -- something that is 
practical and fits the gist of our discussion.

Finally and generally, I understand the importance of coming to decisions and I 
respect the effort to put together a poll on that basis.  That said, let's be 
careful not to disregard the many many hours of people who took the time to 
slog 
through these issues and make the poll our one and final determinant.  Where 
the 
consensus of the call and that of the poll differ, let's discuss and understand 
why.  If the poll results show opinions different from the group's core 
participants, let's at least reflect this difference somehow in our language.

Thanks.  Andrew

 
Andrew A. Mack 
Principal
AMGlobal Consulting

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From: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>
To: soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 3:20:13 PM
Subject: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] 2.19-3


Hi,

Took the comments received, made some changes, responded to some comments.

Lets us this one for tomorrow - not greatly different - no substantive changes 
(in my opinion) were made.

a.