Re: poster dist (again)

[Christopher Ambler <chris@iodesign.com>]

Interesting. Let's break this down a bit:

>  276 Jeff Williams
	Recent addition
>  151 Simon Higgs
	First TLD applicant to IANA, active for over a year
>  137 Christopher Ambler
	Applicant to IANA, active for over a year, registry creator
>  132 Perry E. Metzger
	IAHC member
>  114 Michael Dillon
	active for over a year
>  109 Kent Crispin
	active for over a year
>   79 Dave Crocker
	IAHC member
>   78 Leo Smith
	Recent addition?
>   75 Karl Denninger
	active for over a year, registry creator
>   50 Carl Oppedahl
	active for over a year, active in NSI legal issues
>   49 Vince Wolodkin
	active for quite some time, not sure how long
>   48 Rick H. Wesson
	active for over a year, wrote shared registry code
>   44 Kevin Brown
	active for quite some time
>   44 David Collier-Brown
	active for quite some time
>   43 Hank Nussbacher
	IAHC member

...and so on. It seems to me that the people posting the most are the people most
involved with this issue. This is surprising?

What *is* surprising is that of the posters above, only 3 are IAHC members. I
expected quite a bit more *discussion* on this list (it is, after all called
iahc-discuss, no?). What we've had is a lot of arguing and flaming from people
involved in the process, and little if not no comment from IAHC members on how
their views have changed as a result of public comment.

At this point, all we're going to get is another document on the 31st, and no
avenue to change it at that point. It might as well be edict handed down from
royalty with no recourse. As such, and owing to the fact that the authority of
the IAHC to make these decisions in the first place is questioned, such a document
will certainly fail to enact policy unless it represents consensus. Without the
give and take of draft/comment/draft (as is IETF-like in nature), I can see no
way in which this consensus will be reached. Unfortunate.
--
Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.