Re: [ALSC-Forum] gTLD Registry Constituency response to draft Board resolution

[Joop Teernstra]

At 18:42 31/10/01 -0500, Crawford, Susan wrote:

>The gTLD RC does not agree, however, that the recommendations of the ALSC 
>should be acted upon by the ICANN Board independently from resolution of 
>many other pending issues regarding restructuring, including the ccTLD 
>request for creation of a new Supporting Organization, the need to 
>preserve a level playing field for competition among registries addressing 
>the global marketplace, suggestions for restructuring of the GA and DNSO, 
>and proposals for adoption of more definitive guidelines limiting the 
>permissible subject matters for ICANN policymaking and establishing the 
>consensus policy process leading to and legitimizing such policies.  All 
>of these efforts must be coordinated and should not proceed independently.

Bravo Suzan and David. The restructuring of the DNSO is a key point that 
needs to be considered together with the ALSC recommendations.

It was very disappointing to see how non-committal (evasive?)  the ALSC 
members were on this point during the Montevideo consultations.



--Joop