On 10/23/2012 9:51 PM, Eliot Lear wrote:
On 10/24/12 6:23 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
With respect, you haven't spent much time with either the ITU or ICANN
if you think that 3777 is rigidly bureaucratic by their standards.
This is one of those situations where we have to take our medicine. Doug
There are actually very few ITU rules, and very many guidelines. The
latter are the exact opposite of rigid, but subject to overturning by
Member States at any time. I had thought that we were roughly the same
in that regard, so as to avoid a perversity. We've had any number of
debates on this list about not creating process without a reason.
Fine. The price for that is that you have to deal with these sorts of
circumstances as and when they arise, using rough consensus as your guide.
I've repeated myself many times now, so you're going to get the last word.
I get what you're saying, but this is one of those times where (arguably
for the better) we've created a difficult procedure that should be
infrequently exercised. We should follow the procedure because it _is_
the procedure. And then use the opportunity to improve it.
Changing, or even overturning a procedure is quite a different thing
from ignoring one altogether.
Doug