At 21/05/2015 03:07 PM, Greg Shatan wrote:
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The idea that being an "interested party" should be a qualification for participating in a decision causes even greater concern. If anything, this could be deemed a disqualification, since a party with an interest in the outcome will tend to seek an outcome beneficial to that interest, not the community's interest or the public interest. For a variety of reasons, we do not operate that way -- being an interested party does not qualify one from participating in a multistakeholder process relating to that interest. This makes it even more important that a truly inclusive multistakeholder group be assembled to consider and resolve issues regardless of whose ox is being gored, to balance the self-interest of the interested parties and to assure the integrity of the process.
Greg
Greg, I support that completely. And yet, we have continually been told that as the direct customers, only registries (perhaps with token other involvement) need to be involved in a all sorts of decisions related to IANA. Alan