Liz,
I think you may be putting the cart before
the horse. I have it on good authority that staff is going to be putting
forward a plan in the next days for the community to comment on prior to a more
synthesized plan going before the board on December 7th. For
my part, I don’t see the wisdom in independently selecting a hand picked
team under a self-developed Working Group charter, particularly when the new
GNSO and Chair are just getting their heads around new operating procedures.
It’s confusing.
I applaud the effort, but am concerned
about the confusing messages being pushed to, or received by, the community.
Everyone is anxious to seize on an opening, but let’s not rush the
process.
Kind regards,
RA
Ronald N. Andruff
RNA Partners, Inc.
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From:
Sent: 2009-11-08 09:43
To: Michael D. Palage
Cc:
Subject: Re: [bc-gnso] New gTLD
Expression of Interest Working Group
Hello Mike
The small "points of contact" group is designed to reach out
to everyone who may have an interest. You
The Board resolution requires a plan by the end of November for
submission to the Dec 7 Board meeting.
Anyone is welcome to participate but use the point of contact in the
first instance so that the group can work efficiently.
A publicly archived mail list, posting of documents and full disclosure
of the document trail has already been requested as support from ICANN.
Anyone can request to be an observer of the group.
Liz
On 7 Nov 2009, at 20:12, Michael D. Palage wrote:
Hello All:
Could the BC leadership
please update the membership on this proposed Working Group for Expressions of
Interests in connection with new gTLDs.
It appears that Minds
+ Machines and other “TLD promoters” have proposed a Working Group
for new gTLD Expressions of Interest. While I have no objection to the
creation of such a working group, the proposal to limit participation to an
apparent self-interested group is rather concerning. Hopefully the new Council,
and our elected representatives will make sure that this Working Group is open
to all that wish to participate.
I am concerned that
the BC will only have one representative (See Doc #2), and this self-selected
group appears to have reached out unilaterally to Susan Kawaguchi. While I
think Susan would provide an excellent participant I think all interested
members from the Commercial Stakeholder Group should be able to participate.
Best regards,
Michael Palage