[CCWG-ACCT] I think I'm confused (was Re: Please review regarding IAB comments on Mission Statement)

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:24:42AM +0000, Malcolm Hutty wrote:
> If you thought Andrew was proposing that, I think you misread his email.
> I understood his point to be that this was insufficiently clear without
> the amended chapeau.

Thanks, Malcolm, that's exactly my point.

To put this another way, with the existing chapeau text there's a sort
of residual problem -- if there's any dispute about the way the pieces
fit together, what happens?  That's why the overarching text needs to
be as constrained as possible.

On the call today, however, there was another idea floated: just get
rid of the chapeau text and deal with each case individually.  As a
general strategy, I think this might well work, because then we'd just
be talking about the three classes of Internet identifiers that are
relevant in the first place, and we wouldn't have to worry about
problems we haven't imagined yet.  I'm happy to try to contribute
however I can to that effort.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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