RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] proposed rewording of Objective 5 - resend

[Milton L Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxx>]

Those are questions for the Working Group to answer. That is how the policy is 
formed: by answering those questions. At this stage we will never agree on what 
the threshold or criteria are, because everyone will try to define it in a way 
that locks you in to their favored policy conclusions. So let the policy debate 
take place in the WG, not here., 

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Concern about this suggestion is that "unacceptable deviation" is mushy.
Are we intended to say that all deviations are unacceptable or that
deviations up to a certain threshold are OK and, if the latter, what's
the threshold?

>
> Objective 5: To determine whether the changes to the current
restrictions and/or practices concerning registry-registrar separation
and equal access contained in the options set out in DAGv3 constitute an
unacceptable deviation from current policies regarding
registry-registrar sewparation.
>
> Rationale: this does not require research or an open-ended assessment
of the entire registry-registrar market, but a simple determination that
the DAGv3 proposals are an unauthorized policy change.
>
> --MM
>