RE: [wg-review] Document: Procedure to Establish Consensus

["Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:59:24AM -0500, Joanna Lane wrote:
>
> Danny Younger wrote: <snip>
>
> ICANN, by way of its Public Forums, Working Groups, General Assembly, and
> ample mechanisms for public comment, provides venues for dialogue that are
> nominally adequate to convey the positions of all interested parties; a
new
> constituency is not needed merely to express a new set of opinions.  In
> recent months the public has used these vehicles to express their outrage
>
>
>
> [Joanna Lane] Would you please explain to this member which are the
> mechanisms and venues ICANN has made available to individuals over the
last
> 3 months to engage in dialogue with other individuals and to convey my/
our
> position to ICANN? Thank you.

<The GA list has been open for nearly two years.

<Also see http://forum.icann.org.  For every major topic, ICANN puts up
another forum, and if you look at the "hot topics" (eg, new gTLDS) you
will find very extensive dialog between individuals.  It's a threaded,
web-based system, something that some people have expressed a strong
preference for (personally I prefer email, but I have a good mail
program that threads email).  There will almost certainly be a forum
for the DNSO review, open for a month of public comment and dialog.>

[Joanna Lane] Uh huh. There's an "and" in there you overlooked. As you well
know, a list, even when threaded, does not produce policy recommendations
from a particular interest group. Point me to the motions, voting procedures
and reports that have been produced on a par with those of the BC
constituency to represent the interests of the individual domain name owner/
holder? What makes you believe that public comment forums are restricted to
responses from individual domain name registrants? Of course not they are
not,  but it certainly wouldn't surprise me to discover that you expect the
BoD to read each and every one of these forums threads, then divine the
intent of a particular group with a stick.

Joanna Lane

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