Thank you, Nick, for signing the message! I appreciate the steps, but don't understand the need for formal "ownership" by subcommittees of documents that are then sent to the full committee. In most cases, there will be de facto ownership because few others bother to comment, but I would think we'd welcome participation at any stage. Closure can breed opposition or apathy, but rarely support. --Wendy At-Large Staff wrote:
Dear Community members:
As a result of suggestions made to improve the ability of the communityto review and provide comments on ALAC documents as they are drafted, yet to retain the ability of small teams of people to work and retain ownership of these documents until they are ready for the next steps in the community review process, the Staff has at the request of the Chair implemented a number of measures:
1. We have created a workspace to store read-only texts in wiki form of documents as they move through the ALAC subcommittee process. Edits proposed by members of the committee can then be reflected in the online text. 2. At the top of each such document, you will see the details of what stage the text is in, and which subcommittee or working group of the ALAC Œowns¹ the text, and when it will move out of committee. 3. At the point where the text moves out of committee it will be distributed for community review and comment on whatever timeline is decided by the committee in question, or the ALAC as a whole, as the case may be. It will also at that time be copied over to the ALAC main workspace so that ALAC members may edit the text directly and again, all comments made to the original draft can be seen and retained (as well as new comments posted) 4. We will continue to save MSWord versions, with markups, embodying changes during the review process for historical purposes which can then becomea part of the record of work.
We hope that these measures help to more effectively leverage the colllaboration features of the wiki environment and also improve the transparency of the process by which ALAC subcommittees work.
You will find that links to two of the texts to be considered are now exist on the ALAC meeting page at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?8_april_2008.
NOTE: With respect to the page set up by Wendy, please be advised that the version of the text that she used as the basis for her changes was not current. As a result, some of her comments were in relation to text which had been deleted by decision of the subcommittee. We have included a pointer to the current version at the top of the page Wendy has created, and wewill work with you, Wendy, to ensure that your comments are not lost.
-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/