[council] Re: Dot Org final report to ICANN Board

["M. Stuart Lynn" <lynn@icann.org>]

I thank you very much for the final Dot Org Report. I am sure the 
Board looks forward to giving it very careful consideration.

My deep thanks to all of those who participated in all of the 
deliberations and careful considerations that have led to the 
production and acceptance of this report by the DNSO. I know it has 
involved considerable time and discussion in arriving at this point 
by many individuals in the community, in particular on the Dot Org 
Task Force and on the Names Council.

With warm regards
Stuart

At 11:38 AM +0100 2/7/02, DNSO Secretariat wrote:
>[ cf. http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020205.NCdotorg-to-ICANN.html ]
>
>ICANN/DNSO
>
>                    Dot ORG Final Report to the ICANN Board
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>February 5, 2002
>
>Stuart Lynn
>President and Chief Executive Officer
>
>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
>Marina Del Rey, CA 90202, USA
>
>
>Dear Stuart,
>
>The Names Council, at the teleconference held on January 17, 2002, endorsed
>the dot Org Task Force's final report.
>
>The Names Council hereby submits the report to the Board for approval.
>
>The report documents:
>
>   A. Background to dot ORG report
>   B. Task Force members
>   C. Mailing List archives
>   D. Draft statement of policy and public comment archives - October 2, 2001
>   E. Final Report endorsed by theNames Council - January 17, 2002
>      http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020117.NCdotorg-report.html
>   F. Minority report submitted by the Business Consituency
>      http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020205.NCdotorg-final-annexF.html
>   G. Public comments submitted during two week period after endorsement,
>      18 Jan to 1 Feb 2002
>      http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020205.NCdotorg-final-annexG.html
>
>Thank you for your time and consideration of these comments.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Names Council Chair
>
>
>
>A. Background to dot ORG report and terms of reference
>
>On 25 May 2001 ICANN formally entered into new agreements under which the
>Internet's .com, .net, and .org domains will be operated for the next
>several years. The VeriSign, Inc. will give up control over the .org
>registry by the end of 2002.
>
>For more information on the ICANN/VeriSign registry agreements, see
><http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/verisign/>.
>
>On 4 June 2001, in Stockholm, ICANN Board made the following decisions: cf.
>http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-04jun01.htm
>
>      Resolved [01.71] that the Board refers to the Names Council
>      for its consideration the issues raised by the scheduled
>      transition of the operation of the .org top-level domain from
>      VeriSign to a new entity, including at least:
>
>         (a) whether to select an existing entity to succeed VeriSign
>             as responsible for operation of the .org TLD, or to
>             establish a new entity;
>
>         (b) the characteristics of the entity to be selected or established;
>
>         (c) selection criteria for the entity or its organizers;
>
>         (d) principles governing its relationship with ICANN
>             (sponsored or unsponsored TLD, term of operation, etc.); and
>
>         (e) policies for the entity's operation of the .org top-level
>             domain (to the extent they are not to be established by the
>entity).
>
>      Further resolved [01.72] that the Names Council is requested
>      to provide a report on its progress on the issues referred by
>      resolution 01.71, including any policy recommendations it has
>      developed, no later than 12 October 2001; and
>
>      Further resolved [01.73] that the report will then be posted
>      for public comment in advance of ICANN's third annual meeting
>      in November 2001.
>
>Board resolution 01.71 became the terms of reference for the dot org task
>force.
>
>B. The dot Org Task Force was composed of the following members:
>
>      Milton Mueller, NCDNHC
>      Guillermo Carey, IPCC
>      Elisabeth Porteneuve, ccTLD
>      Grant Forsyth, BC
>      Cary Karp, gTLD
>      Ken Stubbs, Registrars
>      Marc Schneiders, GA representaive elected
>
>see http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.DNSO-GA-IDN-dotorgTF.html
>
>C. Mailing list archives
>
>The mailing list, found under Names Council Task Forces and Committees, was
>set up on 4 Aug 2001 with the archives in
>http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-org/Arc00/
>
>E-mail discussion from the GA is archived in:
>http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-org/Arc00/maillist.html
>
>D. Draft statement of policy and public comments
>
>The Names Council dot ORG divestiture Task Force submitted a draft statement
>of policy (v3.3, October 2, 2001) for public comment,
>see:http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc06/msg00142.html
>
>Public comments may be found at:
>http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-dotorg/Arc01/
>11 October 2001 to 16 October 2001 (closed)
>
>Following this the final report was drafted.
>
>E. Final Report of the dot ORG Task Force on policy advice endorsed by the
>Names Council of the DNSO at the teleconference meeting on January 17, 2002
>
>(The report is short and an executive summary is not required.)
>
>http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020117.NCdotorg-report.html
>
>F. The Business Constituency Minority Report
>
>http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020205.NCdotorg-final-annexF.html
>
>G. Public comments submitted during two week period after endorsement, 18
>Jan to 1 Feb 2002
>
>http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20020205.NCdotorg-final-annexG.html
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                    Information from:© DNSO Names Council


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