[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Speed & Rate-of-Return on Effort

[Sam Lanfranco]

All,

I have deliberately remained quite with regard to how we have been 
doing, but my concerns are prompting me to make this one statement.

By most measures we have been moving painfully slow, at considerable 
cost in terms of ICANN resources and in terms a return-on-our-effort. In 
my estimation the issue is NOT a question of "legitimacy" but of 
efficiency and effectiveness. I won't suggest a benchmark against which 
to judge progress, but will point out (stress) that the issues we are 
dealing with have become issues within Internet governance /writ large. 
/My personal concerns are two: (a) our pace of progress and the rate of 
return on our effort, and (b) the risks that the pdp-wg output, and what 
gets implemented by ICANN within its remit, will be constrained (or 
circumscribed) by developments elsewhere.

That leaves open the possibility that the work of this group, while 
legitimate, gets marginalized or becomes irrelevant.

Respectfully submitted,

Sam L.


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