Tuesday, December 06, 2005

ICANN - in the twilight zone?

Chairman of ALAC on the difficulty of getting any feedback from the ICANN Board (apparently even notice of receipt is difficult to get)


�I HOPE THAT WE DON�T HAVE TO GO TO THE OMBUDSMAN TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THE BOARD IS CONSIDERING WHAT WE SAY.�

And this is the response from the ICANN chair -

Vint Cerf gave a very enlightening answer: �...AS I HAVE LISTENED TO MANY OF THE EXCHANGES THIS WEEK, I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT WE SOMETIMES DON�T UNDERSTAND THAT A PARTY WHO HAS SAID SOMETHING IS ALSO LOOKING SPECIFICALLY FOR A REPLY�
THIS IS NOT TO EXCUSE ANYTHING, BUT WHEN WE � IF WHEN YOU ARE COMMUNICATING SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY TO THE BOARD AND AN EXPLICIT RESPONSE IS EXPECTED, PROBABLY IT WOULDN�T HURT TO SAY THAT, JUST TO UNDERSCORE THE POINT.�

So - basically, when you send comments to the Board, make sure that the document ends with:
"looking forward to your prompt response"
Otherwise they won't realise that they need to respond!

What a place!!

1 comment:

Jacqueline said...

Update - apparently this was not a planned thing - since it was brought to the attention of the Board, they've been much much better. We get some good dialogue with them now. I felt the need to post this update so that people don't take my post from 2005 and apply it to today's situation (out of context)
Jacqueline

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