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> > if ICANN would open their meetings, there would be process. I don't know
> > if there would be peace.
> The DNSO is holding "open" meetings. ...
Yesterday's formative Names Council meeting went surprising well.
The first 2 1/2 hours were a mind numbing descent into the kind of minutae
that would bore a block of granite.
But the second 1 1/2 hour part, the "open" meeting was fairly
constructive.
Between my pompous gnome bit and Randy's seat swapping, enough sillyness
and humor was injected so that I got the feeling that people could ask and
answer some hard questions (knowing that they couldn't embarrass
themselves any worse than some of us had already done. ;-)
I believe we got a good sense that the WIPO report would be examined not
as a final document to be accepted or rejected in total, but as a
recommendation that can be modified. And I got the sense that in people's
minds the review would be based on a notion not of "presumptive validity"
but rather the presumption that the existing WIPO text is a good faith
first cut at the problem. It's a subtle distinction, but one which I
believe admits the notion that changes to the WIPO recommendations are not
only possible, but likely if reasonable objections are raised.
The second thing I sensed from the meeting was an agreement that
non-commercial and individual interests are deserving of their seats, and
deserving of them soon. I sensed some frustration that the folks there
couldn't themselves wave a wand and "make it so", but that it was up to
the ICANN board to do the deed.
There was a clear tension between those who felt that it is time to start
resolving substantive questions and those who felt that the process still
needed to be worked out (I'm in the latter camp.)
--karl--
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