[governance] What happened at the NARALO/ALAC/CCNSO?

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

Advisory Committees can request Issues Reports and thence to PDPs. They
don't have to kick the ball over to the Board.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 19:21
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Kieren McCarthy
> Subject: RE: Re: Re: [governance] What happened at the
> NARALO/ALAC/CCNSO?
> 
> Kieren,
> 
> One of the problems I see is that not all policy
> matters work their way through the formal Policy
> Develoment Process.  For example, I think that you
> would agree that domain hijackings are a "bad thing"
> and that from a policy perspective registrars should
> be required to adopt all necessary measures to
> safeguard the integrity of the domain name system.
> 
> If you have a look at the SSAC report on Domain
> Hijackings issued in July 2005 you will note a series
> of ten recommendations (most of which have never been
> implemented) -- see
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/hijacking-report-12jul05.pdf
> 
> I have to ask myself, just what is the point of these
> Advisory Committee recommendations if there is no
> follow-through to make sure that such recommendations
> are adopted.  What we have, in effect, is no policy at
> all regarding hijackings -- all we have are "best
> practices" that the registrar community has failed to
> adopt or abide by.
> 
> So yes, the community pointed out a problem that came
> to the forefront in the wake of the PANIX hijacking,
> community input was provided, community comments were
> tendered, and a decision was essentially made by the
> Board to drop the matter and not proceed with a PDP
> (which under the bylaws they were at liberty to
> request).  The process stalled at the Board level (and
> the public still has no idea why).  This is, to me,
> not indicative of a process that works correctly.
> 
> Danny
> 
> 
> 
> 
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