[bestbits] Civil Society Letter on IANA Transition

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 25/05/2016 1:11 AM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:

> Dear all,
> I recently came across this:
> http://bestbits.net/iana-transition/
>
> However, I never saw its contents being discussed on this list.  Did I
> somehow fail to receive those messages?

I agree there was a shortfall in the process here - the drafting should
have come to the list before the text was finalised but I myself didn't
know that this was going on until it was ready and was approached to put
it up online urgently that same day (and two hours later I was
questioned why I hadn't put it up already!).  I understand that there
are sometimes cases of urgency where it's impossible to consult, but I
don't know why that was the case here.

On the other hand, all collectively have to take responsibility for the
decision made at the last Best Bits meeting that we were no longer going
to have a steering committee to make these calls, leaving the platform
essentially as Matthew has presented it in his last message - that it
will be just loosely administered as a coordinating platform for anyone
who wants to use it, and those who wish to endorse a joint statement can
do so while those who don't wish to, won't.

I would really (really!) welcome others who wish to come on board to
help to administer the Best Bits platform, even though it is no longer
as a formal steering committee.  We can't have it both ways - nobody
wishing to volunteer, and then at the same time complaining that there
is no gatekeeping of content.  So please do contact me if you can help out.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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