Wendy Seltzer wrote:
What a farce.
Whether or not the document is any good
It isn't. It completely marginalizes the individual registrant and user communities by shifting most of the power to the commercial user/commercial registrant community (read: IPC/ISPC/BC). I think the paper is correct in pointing out that contracted parties do need some sort of grouping, but it forgets that registrants (of all types) are a highly important component of this. My strongest preference has always been to provide the contracted parties with 1/2 of the vote of the Council, and the user community with the other 1/2. How the 1/2s get divided up is a matter for discussion, but I think its time for a serious discussion of these matters before some half-baked scheme like this commercial power grab gets institutionalized. Sorry for cross posting this - not sure where this thread should actually live. /ross