[Internal-cg] Public comment period

Alissa Cooper alissa at cooperw.in
Fri Jul 10 22:17:24 UTC 2015


To be clear, my proposal is not to do something less than 40 days. It is to do 40 days exactly. E.g., July 31 to Sept 8.

If we have to have two full weeks of public comment in September, we should probably cancel our F2F meeting. There is no point in us all traveling to meet in person when we won’t have done hardly any analysis of the public comments received at the end of the public comment period. Also, what counts as a full week? Do these people whose vacations will be upset by a nearly 6-week public comment period count the first week of September as a “full week” even though it includes one day of August?

I will admit to being a bit frustrated with this line of argument. All of us and the people in the communities have been going to great lengths and making significant sacrifices to do the work that the transition requires, including joining phone conferences in the middle of the night and from remote locales, staying up all night working on parts of the proposals, flying around the world to have contentious meetings, and taking time away from our families and day jobs to volunteer our time for this. If commenters can’t find a bit of time within a 40-day window that spans both August and September to gather their thoughts on the proposal, then perhaps we need not balance our needs against how little regard they will have given to the transition process. To put it another way, I don’t think we should blow our timeline to accommodate people who don’t care enough about the transition to comment on it given a nearly 6-week-long window in which to do so.

Alissa

On Jul 10, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> Agreed. We will get complaints from Europe and complaints from the DC lawyers who were already complaining about CWG's less than 40-day comment periods
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> A comment period that is mostly during august will not be seen as credible..
>> we need at least 2 weeks in september..
>> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> From: Alissa Cooper [alissa at cooperw.in]
>> Received: Thursday, 09 Jul 2015, 6:30PM
>> To: internal-cg at ianacg.org [internal-cg at ianacg.org]
>> Subject: [Internal-cg] Public comment period
>> 
>> We had a preliminary discussion in Buenos Aires about the length of our
>> public comment period and I’d like to continue that here.
>> 
>> Our last call of this month is on July 29. If we agree on that call that we’re
>> ready to put the combined proposal to public comment, then we’ll be
>> looking at a launch around July 31 (giving a day or two to prep the web site
>> and other materials after the call). A 40-day comment period would then
>> end on September 8. That would provide 7 working days between the end of
>> the public comment period and our F2F meeting to analyze the public
>> comments and coalesce them in some form for discussion at the F2F. This is
>> very tight timing, but doable in my opinion. So I think we should make this
>> the provisional plan, of course subject to change if we need to change it.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Alissa
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