Bill,

Thank you for your comment.

Ray

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> On Behalf Of Bill Darte
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:10 AM
> To: 'nro-comments at nro.org'
> Subject: [NRO-Comments] More Explicit Process of Proposal Submission
> 
> To whom it may concern:
> 
> Attachment A of the MOU states in item #1...
> 
> "A proposed global policy can be submitted either to one of the RIR policy
> fora (via mail lists or public policy meeting) or to the ASO Address
> Council
> directly."
> 
> Item #16, under Considerations states...
> 
> "Through the provisions of an agreement to be executed between the RIRs
> and
> ICANN, it is recognized that the ICANN Board has the ability to request
> that
> the ASO Address Council initiate a policy development process through the
> RIRs, using the policy development procedure described above."
> 
> So, these two paragraphs seem to indicate that if an entity other than
> ICANN
> itself wishes a global policy to be placed in consideration it MUST come
> to
> either a specific RIR policy forum or the ASO AC.  In the event, a policy
> proposal is made to ICANN directly, in one fashion or another, is it the
> obligation of ICANN to redirect that initiative to the ASO AC, or may it
> refer that proposal as its own?
> 
> I believe that any proposal intiative that comes to ICANN, by whatever
> means, should be redirected without consideration to the ASO AC or a
> specific RIR policy forum whose service region covers the requestor's
> interests.  I think that this eventuality should be specifically addressed
> in the MOU and/or attachment.
> 
> In this way, the industry is specifically directed to follow a bottom up
> process that encourages their involvement with their local community of
> interest.
> 
> Bill Darte
> ARIN AC
> 
> Washington University in St. Louis
> Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT)
> 314 935-7575
> 
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