With Ram's permission, I am forwarded a message he sent to the RyC list regarding the establishment of an IDN list. Chuck Gomes "This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized use, distribution, or disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify sender immediately and destroy/delete the original transmission." ________________________________ From: GNSO Registry Constituency Planning [mailto:REGYCON-L@NIC.MUSEUM] On Behalf Of Ram Mohan Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:56 AM To: REGYCON-L@NIC.MUSEUM Subject: Re: [REGYCON] FW: [council] IDN mailing list Chuck, all: I see no reason to use the old list for a new set of discussions that may be orthogonal or tangential to the original discussions. The original IDN WG mailing list should have been closed at the closure of the prior working group. To reuse it, and to automatically opt-in its members to a new list with new rules and new charters does not make much sense to me. The second issue is that I expect the new discussions will be primarily on gTLD IDN matters; the IDN WG list was populated by a large array of folks, only a few from the gTLDs. The third issue is that when the list is now populated with the new topics, archives will appear as if the group took a 6-month hiatus, and resumed its deliberations on the same topics, which would be misleading (to say the least). Is it really so hard to setup a new list, solicit participants (even get the vetted emails of members from the current list), and start out? This should not be such a difficult step. . . . Thanks, Ram