[ga] Missing Afilias Documents - Aren't you ashamed?
Title: Help Intellectual Property Constituency and IPC Council Meeting September 5, 2001, 2 pm, Buenos Aires, Argentina Mr. Metalitz reported that a Task Force has been assembled to design the process for evaluation of the new TLDs. There was discussion about the importance of the length of the evaluation period. One year was proposed. It was then proposed that a better length might be one year from the rollout of the last of the seven new TLDs. The reasoning for this length is that we do not want an evaluation of only the two open TLDs. We also do not want to design a rollout based on data/experiences of the new open TLDs only. *** Note this last sentence. Where is the data? Where are the Afilias Evaluation documents stipulated under Appendix U of the Registry Agreement with ICANN? Why won't ICANN answer? How can constituencies and interested parties participate in the New TLDs Evaluation Process, if the data is being withheld or does not exist? I find it inexplicable, here on one of ICANN's own lists, that these reasonable questions are being met with a wall of silence. What a piss-poor way to administer one of the world's great resources. Openness? Responsiveness? Professionalism? Would Dan Halloran or Vint Cerf or Stuart Lynn kindly explain why it is appropriate to remain totally evasive and silent on this issue? Has Afilias fulfilled the terms of reference set out in Appendix U? Is ICANN in possession of these Evaluation documents? Can the rest of ICANN community have access to these documents, in order to facilitate informed participation, as is expressly allowed under the terms of Appendix U? Aren't you ashamed not to answer reasonable objective questions? Aren't you ashamed? -Richard |