[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] Public Board Meeting - the Update for Prague

[Evan Leibovitch]

Consider the context -- a limited-time ALAC/Board engagement.

At issue is not "is it important?" so much as "is it important to the
exclusion of other issues more important to end users, especially issues
that are not being raised by other communities?"

- Evan


On 4 May 2012 15:34, Garth Bruen at Knujon.com <gbruen at knujon.com> wrote:

> True, no need for us to add pressure on the TAS issue, I'm sure staff
> wants to fix it asap as opposed other issues we've presented.
>
> However, it is symptomatic and raises questions about the organization's
> staffing and ability to manage this technical expansion. Beau is right in
> that they started off sharing lots of info about the outage and then went
> dark.
>
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> From: "John R. Levine" <johnl at iecc.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 1:40 PM
> To: "Evan Leibovitch" <evan at telly.org>
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> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [At-Large] Public Board Meeting - the Update for
> Prague
>
>  And since -- as I have been asserting all along -- there is no end-user
>>> demand driving the TLD expansion, end users really don't care if the
>>> process if interrupted, let alone why.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed.  The domain speculators don't need any help complaining that they
>> have to wait for another month.
>>
>> I'd prefer that ALAC concentrate on issues that matter to the individual
>> non-registrants that ALAC is supposed to represent and who have no other
>> voice at ICANN (other than very indirectly via GAC.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
>> Dummies",
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