Re: [wg-c] "It Won't Work"

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

Jonathan,

Thanks for the quick response.

At 05:18 PM 4/11/00 -0400, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>   I understand the proponents of the S/K principles to
>argue that the S/K standards fall in between: that they will offer some
>useful policy guidance to ICANN even though they're not totally
>constraining.


In effect this means that this is just a list that we -- the working group, 
if the final vote shows positive consensus -- hope will provide some 
assistance to ICANN, but we have no idea whether it will really be useful 
or how they should use it.  It certainly means that there are no 
expectations that anyone can apply the list objectively or reliably when 
making choices.  Nor can anyone, then, claim that the list was mis-used 
(over- or under-used).

For a loose, subjective process that should be fine.  For one as 
politicized as this, I hope the absence of stricter interpretation and 
application does not come back to haunt.

d/

ps.  If you believe that my summary is inaccurate, please restate it.  The 
summary was seriously meant to capture the essence of your response.

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