[Internal-cg] Participation in ICG - 6 points to reach consensus on

joseph alhadeff joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com
Wed Jul 30 12:46:07 UTC 2014


Just to recall that in respect of 6 I have suggested that "Write Access" 
needs to come with a document system that supports showing both edits 
and attribution of authorship.
On 7/30/2014 8:35 AM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> Alissa,
>
> My summary of the feedback is as follows.
>
> I created the proposal and because of that of course stand behind all suggestions.
>
> In addition, I have seen feedback from:
>
> Adiel Akplogan
> Joseph Alhadeff
> Lynn St.Amour
> Manal Ismail
> Wolf-Ulrich Knoben
> Milton Müller
> Jon Nevett
> Jean-Jacques Subrenat
> Paul Wilson
>
> I.e. 10 people I know the view of.
>
> Everyone of those commenting agree with the following 6 suggestions for the first 5 issues:
>
>> 1. Members and liaisons to ICG
>>
>> Suggestion: When consensus is to be reached, consensus is only among
>> members (not members+liaisons).
>>
>> 2. Support staff
>>
>> Suggestion: We accept the proposal from ICANN to until further notice
>> from ICG continue with this set of support staff: Theresa, Ergys,
>> Alice, Jim and Hillary.
>>
>> 3. Interim appointed GAC member
>>
>> Suggestion: The IGC thank Tracy for the ability to participate.
>>
>> 4. Minutes of our meeting
>>
>> Suggestion: We postpone discussion on minutes and otherwise record
>> taking of our future meetings to the discussion on the Secretariat.
>>
>> Suggestion: Until minutes from first meeting are complete, Sam
>> Dickingson should be treated as support staff (together with Theresa,
>> Ergys, Alice, Jim and Hillary).
>>
>> 5. ICANN backup contacts
>>
>> Suggestion: We support ICANN in this proposal, thanks Jamie and Grace
>> for their ability to help, and I validate the situation that they have
>> been removed from the mailing list and that way got special treatment
>> compared with other ICANN staff.
> For the last issue, regarding "write access" to our documents the feedback is split.
>
> First a reminder what I wrote:
>
>> 6. Write access to our documents
>>
>> Everyone is to be given read access to our documents. Question is who
>> should get read/write access.
>>
>> We have a number of alternatives here, and which one we choose depends
>> on what answers we get on the questions above.
>>
>> Alternative A: Members only
>>
>> Today members of ICG do have write access, and update of documents
>> there depends on members doing explicit actions.
>>
>> Alternative B: Members + liaisons
>>
>> To make feedback loop from liaisons easier, we also give write access
>> for liaisons. This do give ability for liaisons to write in documents,
>> which might be preferable for example in the form of change tags in
>> Word documents.
>>
>> Alternative C: Members + Support Staff
>>
>> By letting support staff write to documents members will be relieved
>> from the task of updating documents and otherwise do purely
>> administerial tasks.
>>
>> Alternative D: Members + Liaisons + Support Staff
>>
>> A merge of alternative B and C. In reality it implies (given my
>> suggestion on issue 5 above finds consensus in ICG) that all members of
>> this mailing list do get read/write access to the documents.
>>
>> Suggestion: Alternative D, i.e. all Members, Liaisons and Support
>> Staff get read/write access to our documents.
> Out of the individuals I have heard from, I have the following feedback, in order depending on how supportive the individuals are of D and other alternatives:
>
> D, with additional information that in practice it is the only workable alternative:
>
> Patrik Fältström
> Paul Wilson
> Wolf-Ulrich Knoben
> Lynn St.Amour
>
> D, without any details:
>
> Jon Nevett
> Manal Ismail
> Jean-Jacques Subrenat
>
> D, with the constraint that it must be possible to trace who made what change:
>
> Joseph Alhadeff
>
> Prefer C, but can live with D:
>
> Adiel Akplogan
>
> Against D, and instead prefer A:
>
> Milton Müller
>
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>      Regards, Patrik
>
>
>
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