[CWG-Stewardship] [client com] IPR Memo

[David Conrad]

Apologies: I left off the disclaimer that appears to be essential in discussions on this list.

On Aug 6, 2015, at 7:40 AM, David Conrad <david.conrad at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> Andrew,
> 
>> The proposal was developed in public some time ago (and rather a long
>> time, in this context).  We all of us had ample time to raise
>> objections to that and so on, and we knew that the ICG was going to
>> take the different community positions and try to stitch them
>> together.
> 
> Well, yes. However, if the basis of an aspect of a proposal doesn't appear
> to make sense and that that problem isn't identified until after people
> have time to sit down and actually think about stuff, it seems a bit odd
> to me to say "oh well, you had your chance to fix it months ago."  It's
> sort of like someone identifying a problem in an Internet Draft in IETF
> last call and the working group saying "sorry, you should've said
> something during the working group session a year ago."
> 
>> CWG (and IETF, for that matter) declined to state anything
>> inconsistent with the numbes community proposal when delivering its
>> proposal, so the numbers community proposal is what we have.
> 
> This seems to be an interesting interpretation of "stitch together".  An
> alternative interpretation would be that the ICG would actively work with
> the operational communities to modify the inconsistencies in order to
> reach a consensus opinion, not simply be passive and kick everything back
> to the operational communities to start over as you appear to be
> suggesting.
> 
> Regards,
> -drc
(ICANN CTO, but speaking only for myself)

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