[ga] Gomes on WLS, the NC and Constituencies

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

In the WLS document "VGRS Response to General Counsel's Analysis of VGRS's 
Request for Amendment to Registry Agreement", Chuck Gomes raises some 
interesting issues:

<<The DNSO is supposed to deal with substantive policy as related to the DNS. 
Even if the WLS involved substantive policy (VGRS believes it does not), an 
argument could be made that the Names Council has failed to fulfill its role 
of managing the consensus process but has rather tried to become the 
consensus making body itself. Moreover, if substantial decisions are going to 
be based on NC recommendations, and if that is done because the NC is 
supposed to be representative of most affected stakeholders, then there 
should be an effort to validate whether or not the DNSO constituencies 
actually do represent the constituencies they claim to represent. If they do 
not, then it becomes a very flawed approach to let the NC significantly 
influence decisions, policy or otherwise.>>

http://www.icann.org/minutes/response-vgrs-wls-21apr02.htm

The recent Board resolutions on WLS may be found at 
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-22apr02.htm
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