Urgent: Nominations for IRT Participants

[Konstantinos Komaitis]

Complexity is still ICANN¹s trademark. I agree with Milton if that is the
case the only thing we can do really is sit back and wait. I am happy to
proceed either way and give my input on behalf of our group at any time.

Thank you both Milton and Bill.

Konstantinos


On 12/03/2009 11:56, "William Drake" <william.drake at GRADUATEINSTITUTE.CH>
wrote:

> 
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> Just had a private email with a Board member
>> Apparently the approach of this WG is to put all the complainers (i.e. the
>> trademark/IP people) into a position where they have to come up with a
>> solution that is both acceptable to them and to the rest of the community. In
>> other words it is not intended to be an open WG but is deliberately intended
>> to be slanted toward them with (they hope) the salutary effect of forcing
>> them to be constructive and commit themselves to accepting whatever they
>> propose.
>> Thus, while I agree that Konstantinos has expertise in this area and that we
>> should leverage it, I think the best way is NOT to put him on the group (may
>> not be able to get onto it anyway) but to assign him to be our special
>> monitor of the results of that group. He can assess the results and tell us
>> whether to scream against it or to accept it. And draft our response. And if
>> it is really bad, help us convince other stakeholder groups to oppose it as
>> well.
> 
> Hi Milton,
> 
> It may be that different board members have different perceptions and agendas
> (surprise).  See the snippets below; if what's really intended is that the IPC
> go off and do something themselves and other constituencies are merely
> consulted and respond, it would have been good to say that more clearly up
> front, and to frame the call for nominations differently.
> 
> Maybe I'll hear something clarifying from Kristina in response to my
> suggesting more time for nominations.  If the real deal is as you say, then I
> guess standing back might be the right move.
> 
> Nothing like wasting cycles figuring out the fit between words and their
> actual meanings...
> 
> BD
> 
>>  
>>  Transcript 
>> <http://mex.icann.org/files/meetings/mexico2009/transcript-board-meeting-06ma
>> r09-en.txt>
>>> 
>>>>>  >>WENDY SELTZER:   So I don't see this resolution as an endorsement of
>>>>> any particular position, but as an opportunity for the community to fully
>>>>> develop its positions so that they are bringing to us fully formed
>>>>> proposals which we can then act upon.  And so I invite -- and I hope that
>>>>> members of the community will be -- of other communities will be consulted
>>>>> early in the process, as is recommended, and will have full opportunities
>>>>> to analyze proposals that come out of this working group to provide us
>>>>> with their views as well.
>>> 
>>>>>  >>DENNIS JENNINGS:   Thank you, Peter.  I'm particularly pleased to see
>>>>> the use of the phrase "internationally diverse group of persons" in the
>>>>> resolution. Because my impression has been that much of the discussion has
>>>>> been driven by big business and west -- or North American intellectual
>>>>> property interests.  And I think we've heard other interests speak during
>>>>> the week.  And I'm very pleased to see that because I think there are
>>>>> other dimensions that need to be taken into account.
>>> 
>>>>>  >>RITA RODIN JOHNSTON:   Thank you.  I guess I just want to say -- echo
>>>>> what my colleagues have said, which is I think we're very pleased that
>>>>> there seems to be broad support for this proposal and that members of the
>>>>> community have come together to try to determine solutions to these
>>>>> issues.  I just want to emphasize to everyone the board's view here, which
>>>>> is this is not being put together -- and we are hopeful that this is not
>>>>> going to be a situation where there's going to be overreaching or there's
>>>>> going to be a stagnation of the process or that this is just going to be
>>>>> about big business here.  We really, really want this to be solutions, to
>>>>> be consultative with various constituencies, and to give us real and
>>>>> collaborative and practical ways to move forward. And we're all, actually,
>>>>> very hopeful that this is going to be the case and very much trust in this
>>>>> process.
> 

-- 
Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
Lecturer in Law,
GigaNet Membership Chair,
University of Strathclyde,
The Lord Hope Building,
141 St. James Road,
Glasgow, G4 0LT,
UK
tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306
email: k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk 

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