Just addressing Alan’s second point: 2. The Key Metrics Considerations part of the EPDP Charter requires the we ensure that we will have metrics to determine the success of our recommendations. As such, if we decide that we will not issue policy recommendation on the legal/natural issue, but rather only guidance, we must also include a policy requirement that contracted parties report on whether or not they are actually following the guidance. If we do not do that, there is no way to measure our ultimate success. If Legal / Natural differentiation is not mandatory, as I believe it will be and should be, then concepts such as “metrics to determine success” do not make a lot of sense to me. I do not support saddling the CP’s with (yet another) reporting requirement if it pertains to a non-mandatory action. What does it mean to “measure” the “success” of a non-binding recommendation? We can measure how many registrars do differentiate, we can categorize the ways they do it, we can measure a number of other things, but those measurements are best carried out through third party studies, not by individual reports of 700 registrars. Dr. Milton L Mueller Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy [IGP_logo_gold block]
