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

[Esther Dyson]

We had a fairly specific charter, and to some extent we already went beyond 
it. We were not trying to remodel the entire world, just the part of it we 
were assigned to.  God built the world in seven days, not one!  (smile)

Esther

At 02:43 AM 11/1/2001, Joop Teernstra wrote:

>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



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