I sent a response the day it came out, which should be in the mail archives.
The day it came out the first time in August, or more recently? If the latter then I will go find it.
First time. I'll see if I still have a copy.
The committee, in consultation with the community, would be well-advised - in advance - to decide what outcome it is actually looking for, and to devise the rationale for the position it takes on the issue.
Personally, I think that the add grace period was a mistake, its minimal benefits to registrants are far outweighed by its costs to registries, registrars, and particularly to users, and the registry contracts should change to get rid of it. But we'll have to see if other people feel the same way.
To be effective in raising a PDP and achieving the result you want from the PDP process is far more complex than ALAC communicating with the GNSO and asking them to do something.
Indeed. But other than the .ORG proposal, there hasn't been much action, and this is definitely an issue of interest to users. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.