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class=392292317-03122007>With Ram's permission, I am forwarded a message he sent
to the RyC list regarding the establishment of an IDN list.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Chuck Gomes</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> GNSO Registry Constituency Planning
[mailto:REGYCON-L@NIC.MUSEUM] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ram Mohan<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Friday, November 30, 2007 7:56 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
REGYCON-L@NIC.MUSEUM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [REGYCON] FW: [council] IDN mailing
list<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chuck, all:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I see no reason to use the old list for a new set
of discussions that may be orthogonal or tangential to the original
discussions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The original IDN WG mailing list should have been
closed at the closure of the prior working group. </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>To reuse it, and to automatically opt-in its members to a new list with
new rules and new charters does not make much sense to me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The second issue is that I expect the new
discussions will be primarily on gTLD IDN matters; the IDN
WG list was populated by a large array of folks, only a few from the
gTLDs.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The third issue is that when the list is now
populated with the new topics, archives will appear as if the group took a
6-month hiatus, and resumed its deliberations on the same topics, which
would be misleading (to say the least).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it really so hard to setup a new list, solicit
participants (even get the vetted emails of members from the current list), and
start out? This should not be such a difficult step.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=392292317-03122007>. .
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ram</FONT></DIV>
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