[NA-Discuss] Domain tasting -- epilogue(?)

[Evan Leibovitch]

Thompson, Darlene wrote:
> 2.  Well said and I'm not sure how we could do better outreach but we
> certainly need to.
>   
My thoughts are that -- if this issue has enough support -- Beau and/or
Robert would propose a formal motion to ALAC to rescind any existing
"silence is consent" policy, and change it to one that requires ALAC be
up-front with the level of public interest/input in any position it is
submitting.

Generally, IMO silence should be treated as an abstention, not
affirmation, as it is in just about every other form of decision-making
mechanism I can think of.

> 4.  I agree that ALAC cannot become the complaints department for
> everything but, using the Registerfly example, maybe when things like
> this come up it denotes a policy area that hasn't been addressed.  As
> somebody posted this last week, maybe we need to be a little more
> pro-active rather than re-active with this stuff.  "How" is not clear to
> me as we all have other jobs and lives but if this is what we've signed
> on for...
>   
Jobs? Lives? Really? ;-)

> 5.  Evan, we need some kind of mechanism for alerting the ALSs with
> up-coming deadlines.  Maybe it means one of us monitoring the page that
> you flagged.  I'm hoping to be able to spend some time over Christmas on
> ICANN stuff and maybe I can get some kind of schedule set up with a
> reminder system.  I'll probably be just doing this using Outlook which
> is NOT the best way so if anybody can suggest something, it would be
> good!
>   
How about using the At-Large Google Calendar that is already in place?
It can send alerts in many ways, and this is IMO a totally appropriate use.

Right now there are two calendars available ... one started by me
(originally to post the San Juan schedule), another created by Nick. I
suggest that Nick's calendar be the default one for At-Large, and should
perhaps include such relevant deadlines. Whether my original calendar
should be re-purposed for North American use or simply deleted is yet to
be determined.

- Evan