- From: Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 21:56:06 +1000
- To: Amy van der Hiel <amy@w3.org>, pso-pc@w3.org
Amy, You requested I send you the text of the relevant part of the IAB submission to ICANN on the topic of the Technical Advisory Committee and its composition that I read out to the PSO PC teleconference. Here's the text "The IAB would like to note that technical issues often require specific expertise to properly address and a standing committee would, by necessity, not be able to bring appropriate levels of expertise to every issue that may be referred to the committee. There is also the weakness of having a technical committee operate under an assumption that differences of perspective should be resolved within the committee, and that a committee would be driven by a need to arrive at a single answer, whereas the issue of evaluating alternate technically feasible solutions often has a significant policy component. The concept of a standing committee exposes these weaknesses, whereas the alternative of using a number of technically focussed organizations and individuals on an ad hoc basis to provide comment upon request should be considered by ICANN." regards, Geoff Huston
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