Yes, good point. So may I ask staff, prior to sending this communication out to the old RAA-WG list (and by the way, we have informal expressions of interest for this group already from Evan Leibovitch, Avri Doria, Garth Bruen, Cintra Sookanan and Randy Glass, who should be added to the list), to change the text thusly:
subject line:
Renewing Interest in a Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) working group
Text:
You're receiving this note because of an expression of interest, or because of previous membership in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement working group convened by the Generic Names Supporting Organization.
In conjunction with the need for at-large to submit its comments on amendments to the agreement, we would like to ask you to join a new group, this time convened by the at-large community. Membership is open to anyone, but the group's intent will be to determine and represent the interests of Internet users, not contracted parties. Discussion will be free and open and not limited or prescribed. More details on the public comment period for RAA amendments (the at-large's draft comments are currently being worked on by Carlton Samuels, Alan Greenberg, Holly Raiche and me, if you would like to help), can be found here: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/raa-amendments-prelim-issue-report-12...
If you're interested, send a reply to XXXXX.icann.org and we will send you information about what's going on with the RAA, when the meetings will be, and other things you will want to know. The first meeting will be by teleconference in late January, at a date and time to come, with the intent to develop an in-person discussion agenda for the forthcoming Costa Rica meeting.
Thanks and Regards,
Beau Brendler, working group chair
Chair, NARALO
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From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> Sent: Jan 4, 2012 6:09 PM To: Beau Brendler <beaubrendler@earthlink.net> Cc: staff@atlarge.icann.org, na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] draft/reviving the RAA working group
Hello Beau,
thanks for launching this again, although the text of the message should have "Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), not "Services". Also -- bearing in mind there is a comment sought from the ALAC on RAA amendments http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/raa-amendments-prelim-issue-report-12...
currently with a first draft worked on by Carlton, with both Alan & Holly Raiche also offering to lend a hand, it might be worth rebuilding the RAA-WG list in parallel?
Best wishes for 2012,
Olivier
On 04/01/2012 03:41, Beau Brendler wrote :
Dear staff,
I'd like to ask for your help in reviving the RAA-WG list, which we have been meaning to do for a while now.
Can we do it with a minimum of language, to get the thing restarted, and then provide logistical details and whatnot on the second or third mailing. We should send it to the old RAA-WG mailing list. I would suggest the subject line:
Renewing Interest in a Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) working group
Text:
You're receiving this note because of an expression of interest, or because of previous membership in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement working group convened by the Generic Names Services Organization.
Because of some important activity regarding the RAA, we would like to ask you to join a new group, this time convened by the at-large community. Membership is open to anyone, but the group's intent will be to determine and represent the interests of Internet users, not contracted parties. Discussion will be free and open and not limited or prescribed.
If you're interested, send a reply to XXXXX.icann.org and we will send you information about what's going on with the RAA, when the meetings will be, and other things you will want to know. The first meeting will be by teleconference in late January, at a date and time to come, with the intent to develop an in-person discussion agenda for the forthcoming Costa Rica meeting.
Thanks and Regards,
Beau Brendler, working group chair
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