RE: [alac] Re: Your comment to the ALAC

["Denise Michel" <denisemichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Karl.  I'll ask ICANN's technical staff to look into what happened
to your email.  We've extended the deadline on comments for draft At-Large
criteria/process/guidelines.  I'll post your comment.

Denise

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
>Karl Auerbach
>Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 5:10 PM
>To: Denise Michel
>Cc: Interim ALAC
>Subject: [alac] Re: Your comment to the ALAC
>
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>On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Denise Michel wrote:
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>> I don't know what happend to the comment you sent to the ALAC
>(which address
>> did you use?), but I will add your comment (below) on the ALAC's draft
>> criteria and guidelines to the forum archive.  My email to Danny Younger
>> addresses other questions you raised, and I have included it below.
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>OK, one more time...
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>Question 1:  Did I send it to the right place?
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>Here's the header from my "sent mail" folder...
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>   From karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Thu Apr 24 04:05:20 2003
>   Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:06:10 -0700 (PDT)
>   From: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   To: forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Subject: Comments on "Proposed Criteria..."
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>"forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is the address shown in the document at
>http://alac.icann.org/drafts/draft-als-ralo-9apr03.htm
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>And that address is consistent with you put into your mail to which I am
>now responding:
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>> Individuals have been encouraged to send their substantive comments on
>> pending ALAC-related issues to <forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ...
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>So there is utterly no doubt that I sent the material to the right e-mail
>address.
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>Question 2:  So did it get lost along the way?  Let's look:
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>Here is the log entry from my outermost mail relay...
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>   Apr 23 01:06:20 p2 sendmail[23706]: h3N86GCo023704:
>   to=<forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (2000/100),
>   delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=esmtp, pri=30567,
>   relay=pechora.icann.org. [192.0.34.35], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>   (h3N87VH30008 Message accepted for delivery)
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>So it is clear that my mail made it to "pechora.icann.org" a few seconds
>after I sent it.
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>In other words, my mail was sent to the right place and was received by
>ICANN.  After that... well, that's on your side of the wall.
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>I would further suggest that there is now an open question regarding other
>postings that may have disappeared.  Without the "forum" being visible
>people had, and continue to have, no way to verify whether their comments
>were received or not.
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>That, coupled with the lack of ability for people to comment upon the
>invisible comments, are good and substantive reasons to re-open the
>comment and discussion period.
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>               --karl--
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