[NA-Discuss] Report on the OneDay AtLarge workshop

[Danny Younger]

Dear all,

Is anyone else concerned with the gross
misrepresentations in this report?

In the section "Working Group Activities (Policy
discussions and statements from this meeting)" it
states:

"The ALAC working group on WHOIS is setting the task
to propose a way that suits both privacy of data and
accountability of registrants. We have set the goal of
drafting a position to be presented on the ALAC
meeting in Paris on June. For that purpose we will ask
the ALS`s their thoughts and position in order to
fulfil our duty as their representatives. It is
mandatory for said task that we rely on translation of
documents."

When reading the above one gets the impression that a
whole bunch of busy beavers have actively been engaged
in substantive list discussions and have developed a
cogent plan of attack to deal with a vexing issue.

Yet having reviewed the WHOIS Working Group discussion
list, all I see is a total lack of discussion (except
for the occasional random comments of Jeffrey
Williams).  There is no position being drafted --
there are no WG member comments whatsoever in this
calendar year; there has been no outreach on this
topic to ALSs and there have been no documents
translated.

Is it really necessary for this OneDay document to
distort the obvious truth that this WG is a sham? 
What noble purpose does that serve?  Wouldn't it be
far more honest to state that no work whatsoever has
been done?  

One also gets the impression from the document that a
Domain Tasting Working Group exists.  Yet a review of
the archives shows that "No messages have been posted
to this list yet, so the archives are currently
empty."

Having read the numerous prior ICANN Status Reports
submitted to the DOC that reference ALAC activities I
am used to a certain degree of dissemblance on the
part of ICANN Staff, but what are we gaining by
putting out reports that do little more than put a
positive spin on what amounts to gross non-performance
on the part of ALAC WGs?




--- At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org> wrote:

> Dear all, 
> 
> Please find attached the Report on the ³OneDay
> ALAC/AtLarge² workshop that
> took place at the ICANN New Delhi conference.
> 
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>  
> ICANN At-Large Staff
> email: staff at atlarge.icann.org
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