Re: [Internetgovtech] Cross community

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Avri:

> For me, as an example at this point, I see breakage on things like the
> self established ability of the IETF to unilaterally decide that a
> protocol mandates removing labels from the list of available TLD labels.
> 
> As a long time participant in the IETF, I see how natural this decision
> is for the the IETF and a part of me cheers at the simplicity of this
> solution for any number of issues.
> 
> As a member of the ICANN GNSO Council I am outraged at the idea because
> it is a policy decision that the technical arm of the enterprise has no
> business making.

I cannot imagine such a thing happening without coordination.  There was coordination before ".local" was selected by the technical community.  The coordination turned out to be straightforward because ".local" was on the list that ICANN was not allowed to use.

I'd like to see a process for this coordination written down, but I am not worried about "unilateral" decisions.

Russ