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I guess I disagree. If we use "participation" instead of their
"advice", I think that we are on safe ground. The GAC
gave us guidelines for the new gTLD policy. We did not always follow
them, and some of those were the ones that they later raised with the
Board. If they had truly "participated" instead of each of us
throwing documents over the wall, we would have been far better
off.<br><br>
Alan<br><br>
At 23/10/2011 10:10 AM, Mason Cole wrote:<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Here's my first contribution --
hopefully it's actually helpful.<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>I wouldn't necessarily say that we
welcome participation -- registrars' experience is their expectations for
"participation" means more than what we mean by it. I
would say we welcome their input into the GNSO's policy development
process.<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size=2><b>From:</b> owner-council@gnso.icann.org on
behalf of Adrian Kinderis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sun 10/23/2011 6:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wendy Seltzer; Council GNSO<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [council] Thoughts on the GAC advice<br>
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<font size=2>I think if you preface it by saying "it is the GNSO
Council's general opinion" you are fine (as Kristina's has done with
respect to her questions to the Board).<br><br>
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Adrian Kinderis<br><br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org
[<a href="mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org">
mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org</a>] On Behalf Of Wendy Seltzer<br>
Sent: Sunday, 23 October 2011 1:52 PM<br>
To: Council GNSO<br>
Subject: [council] Thoughts on the GAC advice<br><br>
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Since Adobe keeps crashing on me, here's what I've been trying to
type<br>
into its chat.<br><br>
We welcome the GAC's participation in the GNSO discussion and Policy<br>
Development Process. We will take comments into account, and we hope<br>
likewise that the GAC will find participating in Council discussions
a<br>
helpful alternative to giving Advice to the Board as well as offering
a<br>
preview of the Board's potential responses to that Advice.<br><br>
--Wendy<br><br>
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