Organizing support for the IAHC Plan

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

	I'm sending this on my own initiative, copying the rest of the IAHC
for the benefit of future discussion.  I am sending this note to
individuals and groups that I believe are generally supportive of the IAHC
plan for evolving governance and operation of the gTLD DNS space.  Please
feel free to forward it selectively.  Having it go out too generally simply
provides more grist for the mill of critics.

	The IAHC report was issued more than one month ago.  Since then,
various people have had various discussions -- all useful to the cause --
but there is no organization to the efforts at responding to criticisms,
developing support, working with the press, or anything else one might call
promoting the report.  Those of us on the IAHC, itself, continue to put in
time, but the project has already called for more of our time than any of
us expected and more than most of us could afford.  Still, we are glad to
have done the work and we believe the result to be quite excellent.  But
after the report comes the selling.

	We need organized effort with the press.  We need organized effort
with constituencies (industry, government, trade associations...).  We need
reporting on these efforts, to gauge how things are going.

	This is a much larger requirement than the few members of the IAHC
committee can marshall, even without our having already put in so much
time.  Too, support for such a plan must come from the larger community, so
why shouldn't the effort to sell it?

	So, this note is a probe to see whether such an organized effort
can be developed.  Please let me/us know your thoughts, suggestions, and
interest.

	Thanks.

d/


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