[Internal-cg] Consensus call: Community comments handling

Kavouss Arasteh kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 09:41:18 UTC 2015


Dear Daniel
Dear Joseph
Thanks for not opposing
What you raised would be internal to us
Regards
Kavouss

Sent from my iPhone

> On 22 Apr 2015, at 11:00, Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> This procedure looks to me like one of these just workable compromises.
> However, it is not important enough to spend more time on it. So I will
> not oppose it.
> 
> The chair will have to support the secretariat in their decisions what
> is spam and how to make specific comments available to which
> communities. I suspect that some of these decisions will not be
> straightforward. and we will receive some criticism for them no matter
> what. I wish we could have avoided this work and these decisions by
> omitting (2b).
> 
> We will also have to clarify to the communities that the request for
> updates in (3) is not intended as a request to address each and every
> comment nor to produce statistics on how many comments they responded to
> etc etc.
> 
> (2a) is the important part.
> 
> Daniel
> 
>> On 22.04.15 4:02 , joseph alhadeff wrote:
>> Colleagues:
>> 
>> I have posted a clean reformatted proposed solution for the consensus
>> building comments in drop box and attach it to this email for your
>> convenience.
>> 
>> Best-
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>>> On 4/18/2015 10:01 AM, Kavouss Arasteh wrote:
>>> Dear Joe,
>>> I fully agree with your way forward.
>>> May you kindly edit the former draft in re ordering the text and
>>> deleting the element of giving option to OCs to elect to reply or not
>>> and replace it by your text to which I fully agree
>>> Kavouss
>>> 
>>> 2015-04-18 14:38 GMT+02:00 Manal Ismail <manal at tra.gov.eg
>>> <mailto:manal at tra.gov.eg>>:
>>> 
>>>    Many thanks Mr. Arasteh for your trust ..
>>> 
>>>    Unfortunately I’m traveling this coming week and have an intense
>>>    week of meetings ..
>>> 
>>>    I won’t be able to dedicate time for this issue, nor will I be
>>>    able to join the ICG upcoming call, as indicated earlier ..
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    Appreciate being excused ..
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    Kind regards
>>> 
>>>    --Manal
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    *From:*Internal-cg [mailto:internal-cg-bounces at ianacg.org
>>>    <mailto:internal-cg-bounces at ianacg.org>] *On Behalf Of *Kavouss
>>>    Arasteh
>>>    *Sent:* Friday, April 17, 2015 1:46 PM
>>>    *To:* Alissa Cooper
>>>    *Cc:* internal-cg at ianacg.org <mailto:internal-cg at ianacg.org>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    *Subject:* Re: [Internal-cg] Consensus call: Community comments
>>>    handling
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    Alissa
>>> 
>>>    Thank you for the message
>>> 
>>>    Pls note that from the very beginning some if us wanted to give
>>>    the choice ti OCs to reply or not
>>> 
>>>    Some others including me were if the opinion that such choice
>>>    should exclusively be available to ICG to determine how to react.
>>>    i.e. Reply directly to the comments received which usually would
>>>    not be the case in practical circumstances or ICG decides ti send
>>>    the comments to OC concerned and asks that entity to reply and
>>>    copy the reply to ICG
>>> 
>>>    This is fundamental and crucial as it is part or duty to oversight
>>>    that process as indicated in our charter.
>>> 
>>>    We can not compromise on any provisions of the charter.
>>> 
>>>    Thank you for your kind understanding and careful attention.
>>> 
>>>    I suggest Nanal who dealt with this issue kindly continue to find
>>>    a solution.
>>> 
>>>     Regards
>>> 
>>>    Ksvouss  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    On 16 Apr 2015, at 21:16, Alissa Cooper <alissa at cooperw.in
>>>    <mailto:alissa at cooperw.in>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>        If any of you who have agreed on edits could edit the document
>>>        directly and post an update to the list and dropbox, that
>>>        would be great. Personally I don’t fully understand what
>>>        changes you all have agreed.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        Thanks,
>>> 
>>>        Alissa
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        On Apr 16, 2015, at 4:01 AM, Kavouss Arasteh
>>>        <kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com <mailto:kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com>>
>>>        wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        Dear Alissa,
>>> 
>>>        Pls be reminded that in the Consensus building document that
>>>        we worked for several  months  ago in which there was no
>>>         mention  of so-called “ROUGHT CONSENSUS “which is practiced
>>>        in your own community and not in ICG .That rough or soft
>>>        consensus was strongly rejected. Please carefully read that
>>>        consensus building document .It is not appropriate that such
>>>        document which established the basis of our works and
>>>        completed after more than 300 e-email message be ignored
>>> 
>>>        We need to be consistent and respect our earlier decision and
>>>        agreement.
>>> 
>>>        My suggestions for a simple rewording has been supported and
>>>        you need to take that into account
>>> 
>>>        I do not agree with your position as it is not consistent with
>>>        what we have decided before . You can not ignor all those
>>>        agreement and just refer to “ROUGH CONSENSUS “which was
>>>        totally disagreed from the very beginning
>>> 
>>>        We need to be practical and comply with our charter.
>>> 
>>>        Comments received should first be considered by ICG, if it
>>>        requires reply, the reply should be give. If it needs to be
>>>        sent to OCs ofor further analysis and reply ,once so decided
>>>        by ICG that action should be done.
>>> 
>>>        The decision making ENITY is ICG and not the OCs .
>>> 
>>>        Comments received should not left as an optional process by
>>>        OCs they must be treated properly.
>>> 
>>>        Many evidence were witnessed that some OC do not wish to
>>>        answer the questions
>>> 
>>>        Then what is the role of the ICG?
>>> 
>>>        Community expects a proper action from ICG,
>>> 
>>>        The issue is not so difficult
>>> 
>>>        Pls do not make a mass of that.
>>> 
>>>        Joseph has made some edits, Milton implicitly agreed with my edits
>>> 
>>>        Pls keep calm and allow us to work. Make your efforts to
>>>        converge and not to diverge
>>> 
>>>        This is an important matter left from Singapore
>>> 
>>>        Regards
>>> 
>>>        Kavouss  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        2015-04-16 11:56 GMT+02:00 Joseph Alhadeff
>>>        <joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com <mailto:joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com>>:
>>> 
>>>        Kavouss:
>>> 
>>>        We are in agreement except for one nuance.  When it comes to
>>>        ICG I agree our actions are in our discretion and answers must
>>>        come to us.
>>> 
>>>         As you know, I have been an advocate of consultation and
>>>        transparency; if a person sends us a question related to an OC
>>>        propsal which we believe has been answered in the OC propsals
>>>        or which we do not see as worthy of follow up- excluding the
>>>        spam Patrik noted- we should still forward that question on an
>>>        OC propsal to the OC in question so they can decide if they
>>>        need to answer or explain their  actions further to optimize
>>>        community consensus.  We need maximum transparency and
>>>        consensus across all of our efforts...
>>> 
>>>        I hope this helps clarify the thinking related to the need to
>>>        forward questions that should have better been addressed to
>>>        the OC...
>>> 
>>>        Joe
>>> 
>>>        Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com
>>>        <http://www.nitrodesk.com/>)
>>> 
>>>        -----Original Message-----
>>> 
>>>        From: Kavouss Arasteh [kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com
>>>        <mailto:kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com>]
>>>        Received: Thursday, 16 Apr 2015, 4:41AM
>>>        To: Joseph Alhadeff [joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com
>>>        <mailto:joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com>]
>>>        CC: paf at frobbit.se <mailto:paf at frobbit.se> [paf at frobbit.se
>>>        <mailto:paf at frobbit.se>]; internal-cg at ianacg.org
>>>        <mailto:internal-cg at ianacg.org> [internal-cg at ianacg.org
>>>        <mailto:internal-cg at ianacg.org>]
>>> 
>>>        Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] Consensus call: Community comments
>>>        handling
>>> 
>>>        Dear Joseph
>>>        Exactly . It is only and only ICG who decides to whether or
>>>        not a comment received needs to be replied and not all comments.
>>>        Once again the choice us within ICG and nit OCs
>>>        Regards
>>>        Kavouss
>>> 
>>>        Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On 16 Apr 2015, at 09:57, Joseph Alhadeff
>>>        <joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com
>>>        <mailto:joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> As to a it is our option not obligation to every comment.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown
>>>        (www.nitrodesk.com <http://www.nitrodesk.com/>)
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> 
>>>> From: Patrik Fältström [paf at frobbit.se <mailto:paf at frobbit.se>]
>>>> Received: Thursday, 16 Apr 2015, 2:16AM
>>>> To: joseph alhadeff [joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com
>>>        <mailto:joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com>]
>>>> CC: internal-cg at ianacg.org <mailto:internal-cg at ianacg.org>
>>>        [internal-cg at ianacg.org <mailto:internal-cg at ianacg.org>]
>>>> Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] Consensus call: Community
>>>        comments handling
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 16 apr 2015, at 00:09, joseph alhadeff
>>>        <joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com
>>>        <mailto:joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Choices:
>>>>> 
>>>>> a.  We decide that the comment we received is worthy of our
>>>        own follow up and it inspires us to ask the same or related
>>>        question(s) to the proposal drafters. This we have the ability
>>>        to do at all times.
>>>>> b.  As the comment goes to a proposal as opposed to our
>>>        process or the joint proposal, we are not in a position to
>>>        properly answer the question.  As such we could forward the
>>>        question to the correct community, on the chance that the
>>>        asker of the question may not have also addressed the community.
>>>>> c.  Since we are working transparently, I assume all of the
>>>        questions we receive will be available online.  If a community
>>>        commits to keeping watch for relevant comments then we don't
>>>        have to worry about forwarding comments.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Options b and c in no way limit our rights and abilities
>>>        under a.  b and c are merely concepts that assure the greatest
>>>        transparency and assurance that comments are routed to those
>>>        groups best able to address them.  It takes a no wrong door
>>>        approach to comments and helps assure that those not familiar
>>>        with the consultation process are also able to get their
>>>        questions heard.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> We also have d. various trolls and denial of service attacks
>>>        that we can at point of inspection "just ignore". Specifically
>>>        because of b. and c. And b. issues might be picked up by the
>>>        OC themselves. Either because it was adressed to them as well
>>>        as ICG, or because they saw it (according to c.).
>>>> 
>>>> I.e. we are inspired by whatever comments come in, and might
>>>        ask/forward questions to the OC's. OC's can also watch the
>>>        list and act themselves on whatever is sent in.
>>>> 
>>>> But I do not see us or OC be required to act on _every_
>>>        comment coming in. Specifically not having ICG send _every_
>>>        comment to the OC's for action.
>>>> 
>>>>  Patrik
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