>I echo Bret's concerns and agree with his suggested course of action.
>There is
>no urgency to take this action.
I completely agree. It would take longer than the timeframe allocated to
even provide coherrent comments on a report as dense and as far reaching as
this one. There is definitely no impending necessity.
>
>> Esther Dyson wrote:
>>
>> >Thanks for your comments. AS noted, we have not yet decided what we will
>> >do. It indeed depends on public comments, among other things. But aside
>>from
>> >our process, do you have any comments on the substance of the WIPO report?
>> >We would welcome those.
>> >
>> >Esther
>>
>> Yes, ICANN has noted that it "will take appropriate action, which may
>> include seeking further comments on the recommendations, referring of
>> some or all of them to other ICANN entities, and/or adopting certain of
>> the recommendations." (http://www.icann.org/wipo/wipo.htm)
>>
>> But the point is that this is a very voluminous report that will have
>> been published less than a month before the Berlin meeting. The
>> possibilty that the Interim Board would take action that could include
>> adopting certain of the recommendations was noted less than a month
>> before the Berlin meeting.
>>
>> The individuals and companies that have been following this report
>> through the drafting process are in the best position to assimilate it
>> and provide comments on ICANN's schedule. But isn't the point of ICANN to
>> seek consensus from the larger Internet community? That kind of consensus
>> building takes longer than three weeks, and a fully constructed ICANN --
>> with three SOs and a General Membership -- will have the structure
>> necessary to reach that consensus.
>>
>> I would ask that the Interim Board modify this announcement to take the
>> possibility of adopting WIPO recommendations off the table.
>>
>> -- Bret
>>
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