Re: A question about protocol

[Alan Sullivan <sully@frontiernet.net>]

Christopher Ambler wrote:
> 
> Das, I believe that we are moving towards consensus on this list
> with regards to the major issues. I believe that everyone, for the
> most part supports a shared-registry model. Interesting, in that
> I do not, but that's what compromise is all about. I also believe
> that most feel the 60-day wait is a bad idea, and that the lottery
> is a bad idea. Slightly less discussed is the item where the IAHC
> selects the 7 gTLDs, the points being their selection and the
> number 7. This, too, seems a bad idea.
> 
> The point I'm going for, however, is that the IAHC draft of the 19th
> has been rather soundly shot up. There are some very good parts of
> it, and it encapsulates the necessities well. The whole issue of
> CORE, operational logistics aside, is a brilliant idea. But quite
> a few of the key points of the draft have been shown to have serious
> objections by the majority of the voices on this list. It is very
> apparent to me that the next draft will either be significantly
> different, or the IAHC will demonstrate their complete lack of
> interest in discourse-achieved consensus.
> 
> My "revised draft" was an effort to synthesize some of the major
> concerns with the 19Dec draft into something closer to consensus.
> I would like very much to have the list give feedback on my
> revised draft, positive and negative, so I can continue to revise
> it, perhaps as often as every other day (at this breakneck pace,
> which I very much like), until we can reach consensus. At that
> point, it can be presented to the IAHC with the compliments of
> the list as a true show of the position of the members of this list.
> 
> Will someone from the IAHC please officially disclose whether or
> not there will be an interim draft? To wait and publish a final
> draft at the end of January would not be acceptable in light of
> the serious objections to the first.
> 
> If the former, then I continue to support this process and will
> work to make it succeed. If the latter, I will sadly persue other
> action that I am desperately trying to avoid. Either way, I'm in
> this to the end. In the meantime, let's see if we can come up with
> a working document that the whole list can get behind. Let's make
> some compromises and make this process work. Please.
> 
> --
> Christopher Ambler
> President, Image Online Design, Inc.
HI Christopher,
I like the tenor and content of your message - let's get something
together we can all live with. But I am not convinced we have a
consensus on the shared registry model. I have serious reservations 
with this model and so do others. Let's take an opinion poll from
everyone on this discussion group and see how people feel about this.
We could send our "votes" to somebody on the IAHC who could then
publish the results - rough consensus. I will feel a whole lot better
about this if I thought shared regsitries is the best for the Internet,
but I am not convinced. Thoughts?

Thanks,
Alan
-- 
Alan Sullivan
President
Top Domain Registry Inc.