[ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN | .org Reassignment: Applicant Comments | 1 October 2002 (fwd)

[Norbert Klein]

Dear David,

according to what I remember, the group to review the .org applicaions was
formed after Stuart Lynn's invitation, and the Non-Commercial Domain Name
Holders Constituency was asked for volunteers. Again, without going back to the
records, I think that anyone who was a NCC member and volunteered was made to
be a member of the group. There may have been adjustments for geographic
diversity, which is a standaard concern in the NCC. 

I do not remember we made it a requirement that the group had to come back
to the membership for ratificaion, but they became members of the group by a
public process, and I did not see any reason not to trust their work and its
results, which are on public record.

And the results can be discussed - personally I prefer to discuss the
contents of the result of this work, and not suspend discussion on some imporant
points raised relating to the content, by holding everything back with a
procedural question (which, I think, is not to the point in this case anyway).


Norbert 

> At 04:56 PM 10/5/2002 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
> >That is the _only_ applicant comment that has a particular animosity
> >for the NCDNHC's contribution to the evaluation. I will explain the
> 
> Once again, folks,
> 
>          When was that contribution reviewed and approved by this 
> constituency, or when was the authority to produce work in the name of
> this 
> constituency -- without constituency review and approval -- delegated to 
> the authors of that contribution?
> 
>          The same question applies to the supplemental document. 
> (Language 
> in the supplement, like "we eventually reached a unanimous consensus" is 
> wonderfully misleading.)
> 
>          In other words, what makes those contributions anything other
> than 
> the independent work of a small team of individuals?
> 
>          As before, a citation to the public record of formal constituency
> 
> decision-making on these matters would be sufficient.
> 
> d/

-- 
Norbert Klein
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