I believe that my imprecision may have caused some concern.  I have no problem evaluating whether or not we can find cases where the policies and procedures/rules underlying an RPM have been misapplied resulting in an off kilter decision.  If there are in fact examples (and that is an important “if” since we do not want to conjure examples from the hypothetical world), it is appropriate to see if there are changes possible to the policies and procedures/rules underlying the RPM to make sure it doesn’t happen again.  That said, however, was not what was being discussed on the call (or at least not purely); for example, a request by some to react retroactively to  2009 issue raised about the Forum (noting here that 2009 preceded the URS itself).  I do believe that looking at Provider behavior generally or looking at their compliance with any ICANN contract/MOU specifically is outside of our scope.  So, let’s stay focused on RPMs as applied by Providers and avoid anti-provider witch hunts generally.  I hope this helps clarify.  Thanks all!

 

Best,

Paul