Re: [IFWP] Javier, what are you doing?

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

[someone may need to post this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for me, since I rather
doubt I'm a member]

I agree that list management has suddenly become a crisis. 

There are too many lists.  This makes informing oneself hard.  It makes
discussion fractured. It reduces the meaningfulness of consensus.  

Not to mention that the lists are hard to subscribe to.  (I am utterly
unclear if I am on any WG-A lists, or even an official member of WGA at
this point.)  If you look at the archives of some lists, it seems as
though all the postings are by one or two people.

That said, I wonder who will claim there is not a rough consensus on the
issue of the need for (some sort of) new gTLDs....

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark C. Langston wrote:

> Javier, I'm confused.
> 
>   First, you complain about people crossposting to wg-c as well as wg-c-1.
>   Then, you personally post one of these crossposts to wg-c-1, even
> though you've claimed that everyone there would have already received it
> not once, but twice.
> ( http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-c-1/Archives/msg00050.html ).
> 
>   For the past day at least, conversations have been taking place regarding
> the mechanism for determining consensus, without a decision on the 
> mechanism. 
>   Last night, you make a call for consensus on one of the questions before
> wg-c-1 ( http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-c-1/Archives/msg00058.html ).
> Before, I note, a co-chair for the WG exists, when the model currently
> under consideration for determining consensus involves the chairs and
> a Reporter (a position which also has not yet been filled).
> 
>   Yesterday afternoon, I request to be added to wg-c-1, and a few
> hours later, I request that I be added to wg-c-2.
>   Last night, you add me only to wg-c-2, with no explanation.
> 
>   I'm bothered enough that the pDNC has appointed you, a signatory of the
> gTLD-MoU, a member of the BoT of ISOC, a member of the PAB and POC, as
> the chair of the group that will decide questions regarding the existence
> and management of gTLDs.  It troubles me further that you also control 
> the subscription processes surrounding this WG, which you've broken into
> 4 seperate lists.
> 
> What, exactly, is going on here?
> 

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