[NA-Discuss] Issues for Paris

[Evan Leibovitch]

>> 1. Meeting with registrars/RAA agreement (revisions to the agreement are
>> not yet posted, but staff say they will be available "sometime before
>> Paris.")
Having brought Stacy Burnette into May conference call was useful, but I
still find myself asking; what is the value of expending significant
effort on RAA reform when even the existing provisions are not enforced?

I suspect -- though others here with more background can confirm or deny
-- that proper enforcement of the existing RAA would solve many
problems. I found Stacy's response to Danny's last emailed question ...
unsatisfying. I would also have thought that the registrars constituency
would have been eager to encourage identification and proper handling of
the "bad apples", though this seems not to be the case.

I would like to see our region have a game plan going into Paris to
push, both administratively and politically, for expedited increases in
enforcement action. All the best-intentioned policies in the world are
useless if the commercial-service constituents of ICANN can ignore them
at will with little consequence. So it would strike me that effective
enforcement is a necessary _pre-requisite_ of good policy making. What I
don't know are the proper channels through which to assert this if we're
not just doing this through ALAC.

>> 2. Meeting with GAC. Actually I think it's less formal than a meeting,
>> more like hors d'oeuvres.
>>     
Maybe this is not a meeting topic, but I am increasingly becoming aware
that the GAC -- although, like ALAC has no direct Board seat, wields
enormous power within ICANN. I would appreciate if some people here with
some background could confirms or deny, and offer opinions on the
organizational differences between the two advisory groups. Perhaps such
information may be helpful in our meeting ... even if informal.

- Evan