RE: [registrars] Code of Coduct/Best Practices Debate

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

For all interested, the following two links describe the next steps for the
document as well as present the document itself. The archives are indeed a
god-send...

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/msg00222.html
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/msg00223.html


Thanks again to everyone that worked so hard on these documents. Time has a
way of diminishing these important contributions...

Now let's get down to a vote...

-rwr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Richard Lindsay
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:28 AM
> To: michael@palage.com
> Cc: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Code of Coduct/Best Practices Debate
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Actually, the task force completed its work in LA.  The document
> was put together after the meeting and sent to the group.  I was hoping
> to see this wrapped up by now - and not have to think about this
> anymore... :-)
>
> I am not sure who's day job has most affected this, but my
> recollections are that I sent the final version, which was not a
> Code of Conduct, but a Best Practices document which would be
> voluntary, to Mike and Dan Halloran from ICANN.  From there, I
> believe the steps would be to vote on it as a constituency, and
> then have Dan send the document to all registrars.
>
> Since the document would be voluntary, it doesn't need to go to
> the NC, or to the board, at least as far as I can tell.  This
> was discussed in LA as well, with input from ICANN staff.
>
> Regardless, I agree that the constituency could do with some
> restructuring, and more help to the folks that are trying to
> get things done with little or no resources.
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
> "Michael D. Palage" wrote:
> >
> > What this demonstrates is the lack of resources that the
> constituency has to
> > achieve its goals. Since LA, Richard, the head of the Code of
> Conduct/Best
> > Practices Task Force, has been swamped with a day job (InterQ)
> and a night
> > job (Afilias).
> >
> > What I believe would be productive is to concentrate on
> restructuring the
> > constituency and amending the by-laws. Once this is in place we can move
> > forward to re-addressing this very important issue. Moreover,
> as a result of
> > outreach, there have been some more paying members joining. I believe
> > putting the various positions out for a vote would be the best course of
> > action.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > P.S Elana please forward the latest Registrar Constituency Restructuring
> > Memo to the list. I believe the restructuring task force has
> done its job
> > and it is now up to the constituency as a whole to comment.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> > > Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:27 PM
> > > To: Elana Broitman; Erica Roberts; Amadeu Abril i Abril; Robert F.
> > > Connelly
> > > Cc: registrars@dnso.org
> > > Subject: RE: [registrars] DomainRegistry.com response to ICANN -
> > > Verisign
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm saying two things a) we have all this work (best
> practices) that dove
> > > into a blackhole after LA (a la Amadeu's warehousing draft) and
> > > that b) the
> > > work product of the LA sessions have no buy in because no one has
> > > seen them.
> > >
> > > Leaving LA, I remember a sense that we were moving in the
> right direction
> > > with the drafts and that we'd finally arrived at a
> philsophical direction
> > > that everyone present could support. This "sense" is vastly
> different than
> > > buy-in however. If buy-in exists, I'd love to know what we
> bought into...
> > >
> > > -rwr
>
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