[council]

[Avri Doria]

On 18 jan 2007, at 05.54, Liz Williams wrote:

> It is my recommendation that the two streams of work -- reserved  
> names that relate to new TLDs and reserved names that relate to  
> existing registries -- be treated as two separate projects.

...

> I would recommend that the GNSO Council consider launching a formal  
> PDP on reserved names in existing registries -- rather than a  
> Working Group -- and prioritise that work according to the  
> Council's program which includes the IDN WG, the new TLDs  
> Committee, the WHOIS working group and the PDP Feb 06.

I agree with this sort of approach.  I think that in meantime those  
who want to think about the issues of SLD reserved name policy can  
work in ad hoc groups.

> I would note, and the GNSO calendar confirms, that we have an  
> extremely tight schedule of work on new TLDs, PDP Feb 06, the IDN  
> WG and the WHOIS committee.  We have a limited number of  
> constituency members to populate working groups and I would hope  
> that we could complete at least one of the four active pieces of  
> work on the Council's agenda prior to taking on another formal PDP.

I definately agree, from the perspective of the continuing interim  
chair of one of the feb06 effort, getting enough people to attend the  
meetings is becoming a challenge.  This is largely, I believe because  
everyone is doing too much.  And while there are suggestions that we  
need more volunteers to participate in the group, a sentiment i agree  
with, we need to face the same reality that every other volunteer  
needs to face - there are only so many people (or companies) who are  
willing to donate the time needed to do a good job.  Also a number of  
the people who participate have broad enough interests or motivations  
that the will want/need to participate in most ongoing efforts - I  
count myself in that category as I feel that as a Nomcom appointee it  
is the  responsibility of a volunteer to participate as much as  
possible during the years of service.

I think it might be a good council self regulation (or is that a  
motivator?) to say that we should not pick up another activity until  
we finish at least one of the ongoing activities.  We have 3 that  
should terminate during or soon after Lisbon, so we should be in good  
shape on that score.  Assuming we finish the work, that is.

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