[council] Announcements

["Ga Chair" <ga-chair@voila.fr>]

Ladies and Gentlemen Counsellors,
Mister Associate Chairman,

As promised, please find below the text of tomorrow morning's 
announcement.
This announcement will be followed by a proposal for "discussion groups"
, also provided below for your information and comment.

Regards
Roberto


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Dear subscribers to the GA-list,

The purpose of this note is to provide more details and finalize the 
application of the rules for the monitoring of this mailing list (see 
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc03/msg00447.html), adopted last 
week (see http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc03/msg00743.html).

First of all, a confirmation that the present situation will last only 
for a limited period of time, namely three months.
My objective is to hold a vote, whose result will be binding, at the 
latest at the end of April 2000. This vote will address issues like:
- filtered/unfiltered list
- rules and sanctions
- archiving and online availability of the archives

In the meantime, we will operate according to the adopted rules.

The List Monitor (aka "seargent-at-arms")
I believe that until we don't have the final set of rules, the 
responsibility of monitoring the list should be taken directly by the 
Alternate Chair.
Complaints to the decisions of the List Monitor should be addressed 
directly to the Chair, at this dedicated address: ga-chair@voila.fr.

Filtered vs. unfiltered lists
All messages to the GA-list will be addressed to ga@dnso.org, as usual.
Should a person whose posting rights have been temporarily suspended 
submit a message to the list, this message will be accepted and logged, 
but not forwarded to the subscribers of the list. It will nevertheless 
be possible to subscribe to a mailing list (ga-full@dnso.org) that will 
contain full record of the traffic, regardless the status of the 
originator.
Both lists will be archived, and the archives will be publicly available
 on the DNSO Web site, under http://www.dnso.org/archives.html.
This will provide the possibility for anybody, even not subscribing to 
any GA list, to access the offending postings against which sanctions 
have been taken, therefore ensuring the transparency of the decisions of
 the List Monitor.


Regards
Roberto

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Dear subscribers to the GA-list,

Following the previous posting (re: List rules), let me provide some 
comments and suggestions on how to move on from here.

As I said, a vote should be taken in less than three months time on the 
final rules for the management of the GA lists.

I propose that a discussion group, open to whoever is willing to 
contribute, be created with the mission of defining the different 
alternative approaches to list management that should be submitted to 
the vote.
This group will conduct its business on a dedicated mailing list, and 
will report to the GA list its recommendations.
In order to allow the GA to understand the different proposals and to 
discuss them, as well as allow the DNSO to organize the vote, it is 
recommended that the group submits its proposal not later than the end 
of March 2000. 

This proposal originates from the consideration, already made by others 
on the list, that in order to be effective as the size of the GA grows 
it will be impossible to conduct all business on a single all-purpose 
mailing list.
Similarly to the IETF, for instance, specific task- or project-oriented 
groups should be created to address specific subjects.

In the DNSO, we already have the WGs to serve this purpose, and the 
experience is positive. The reason for having a similar approach, but 
not to use the WGs, lies in the fact that the WGs are somehow more 
"official" and "permanent" structures, created by the NC, and that we 
need to have the flexibility to address a specific task in an efficient 
way without involving a debate in the Council.

I would favour therefore also the creation of other discussion groups, 
with focus on the different areas of interest, like for instance:
- Individual Domain Name Holders
- Membership definition and voting procedures

Note that it will be useful to have a decision on voting procedures 
before voting on anything else ... ;>)

Comments, please.

Regards
Roberto


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