Esther and all,
Esther, I spoke with Becky about this very subject as it related to
Mike Robert statements on WIred.com yesterday. I will be speaking
with here hopefully again today. Our concern is that, there should have been
a request for comments BEFORE any guidelines were determined
by the ICANN Interim board, not after. By what authority do you or any
member of the ICANN board derive the either ability to set guidelines
for Accreditation, or without a membership organization in place
to approve of such guidelines? These will be the questions I will
be asking Becky today.
In our opinion, as with many others, the ICANN INterim Board
in yet another instance has acted at the very least inappropriately
here. Please refrain from doing so again...
Esther Dyson wrote:
> To reiterate: We'll be posting the proposed registrar accreditation
> guidelines by Feb 8 on our site, in order to collect public comment before
> the board meeting on March 4.
>
> esther
>
> At 01:35 PM 27/01/99 +0100, Ivan Pope wrote:
> >Esther,
> >You say:
> >'As you know, we are working on the accreditation guidelines.'
> >How would we know this? Can you point me to the place on the ICANN Website
> >where it says this?
> >
> >I don't suppose that ICANN would consider it necessary to make some
> >information available about how it is doing this, who is doing it, or the
> >timeframe? I don't suppose for a moment that ICANN would consider actually
> >taking input on this from those of us who have been involved in this
> >business for years.
> >I presume you are talking to NSI on this though?
> >Ivan
> >
> >>Thanks for your constructive comments. We are taking them into account.
> >>
> >>Just to clarify -
> >>
> >>any lottery would be in addition to geographical considerations and various
> >>other conditions. You could have different pools with their own lotteries.
> >>
> >>These are all *possibilities,* not decisions. And as Mike says, the
> >>two-monthtest should nto be long enough to give anyone a long-term
> >>advantage. It should give them just enough time to make mistakes that others
> >>can learn from <g>.
> >>
> >>As you know, we are working on the accreditation guidelines, which should be
> >>fairly concrete - though we will *probably* impose additional conditions for
> >>the test participants.
> >>
> >>We plan to have that up by February 8 for public comment by the March 4
> >>board meeting.
> >
> >
> >
>
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