[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Regrets

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues,

I've put a lot of time and effort into attempting find means to reduce 
the cost of the Continuity Operations Instrument (COI) to JAS 
qualified applicants. Most of this time and effort has been spent on 
the Temporary Drafting Group - Legal list (TDG-Legal), attempts to 
educate, to engage, alternate text for DAGv5 Question 50(a), with 
copies of significant communications to the JAS list.
I can see no utility, no interest in the COI, other than my own. It 
has been time spent without effect, therefore lacking purpose.
I proposed decomposing the fundamental "what does it cost" question 
into four baskets of capabilities: Base Fee Capability, Scheduled Fee 
Capability, Facilities Capability and Continuity Capability, and
using the 2004 cost as a tool for a minimum Base Fee capability among 
applicants seeking support, and for costing the remaining capabilities.
This too has been time spent without effect, drawing only one 
question, and nothing subsequent.
I want to keep this note short, so those will suffice. No sub-list 
appears to involve my participation. My very best efforts to draw upon 
my abilities are ineffective.
I am ineffective as a contributor to JAS, and hope you will find a 
solution to the problem that a variety of circumstances, and agendas, 
have created.
Eric