Hi Adrian: Evidently, when the subject line includes the word "Kurt, " the email is labelled as junk. I'm not sure what that means. Bruce is right, of course. The parallel I would draw is with the ICANN budget. ICANN posts a "Proposed Final Budget" prior to the June ICANN meeting. There is comment before and during the meeting that the Board considers. Similarly, with new gTLDs, ICANN could publish a proposed final Guidebook. When proposed, the Board could decide to approve the Guidebook as approved, or to approve it with certain tweaks, or to have more extensive analysis again. As you know, there has been comment and analysis on many, many aspects of the Guidebook. All the comments to date have been addressed, although not always in the way the commenters request. Given the diversity of interests, I think that is impossible. Given the depth of analysis to date and the most recent set of Board resolutions, perhaps review of comments in this next version of the Guidebook be limited in some way to changes in the Guidebook or new topics. What do you think? Kurt On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Adrian Kinderis wrote:
Thanks Bruce. Very firm. I like it.
However, it is all in how you look at it.
The staff can certainly put something forward that they may consider "final" and yes the Board may not approve it. However, the staff could still have thought that they were "final".
My question was to Kurt, and therefore staff, in that, does he believe that the next version will be the one they expect the Board to sign off on or will it be sent back for public comment.
A legitimate question given staff's history of announcing that they expect future drafts every time they have released one.
A response would be appreciated.
Adrian Kinderis
-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 3:50 PM To: Council GNSO Subject: RE: [council] Kurt Question
Hello Adrian,
Does that mean there will be others and the next won't be "final"?
It will be final when the Board approves it. Until then it is always a draft.
Regards, Bruce Tonkin