Indeed! Noted Alan => the following text *opinion from me* is also in the Comments section of the wiki page (along with a LOT more from me) as well, but I have sent it here to the Working List for completeness and our (particularly ALAC's) attention... both in its relevance to this specific matter/topic and for more general application / note and I would suggest future codification into some sort of SoP.... If and when piece of ALAC Advice given/published as Statement and/or Public Comment contradicts in whole OR Part any previous Advice it should NOT go to vote without going through an "informed" ALAC discussion on the point(s) that it contradicts/changes => ALACs' (and their Opinions) do change sure they need to! BUT it is because they change (in terms of both personne and opinion/reaction to current conditions etc.,) that a *'Statement / Position Change'* needs to be not only fully discussed and IF required suitably agreed to then BOTH the change and the rationale for it (and arguably the process used for that changes development) should be *highlighted* in the Staff Intro /cover sheet if not/also in the main body of the text where the 'New View' is listed/outlined... Anything else means we are subject to WAY to much critisism for an AC to be taken seriously.... Changes in ALAC (in fact *any* AC Advice) needs to be fully trackable and AUDIT-ABLE as part of our own and ICANN wide A&T... Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO) On 10 August 2011 03:04, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:
I call your attention to a comment I have just made on the proposed ALAC comment on the IRPT-B report. See https://community.icann.org/x/ZAFLAQ.
Specifically, I note that this new comment is an effective reversal of a previous ALAC position. I have no problem with the ALAC doing that, but it if done, it should be with full awareness.
Alan
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