Re: [ga] Draft of Bylaws Recommendation concerning the General Assembly

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_chair@hotmail.com>]

An excellent text.
My only concern is (f).
I would argue that the ombudsman cannot be at the same time a member of the 
NC and ... the ombudsman, reporting to ICANN on the functioning of the DNSO.
Also, from a practical point of view, to have three voting members in the NC 
from the GA will not be accepted by the NC, in particular if we want to 
pursue the issue of the constituency for individuals.

What do others think?

Roberto



>From: Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com>
>To: ga@dnso.org
>Subject: [ga] Draft of Bylaws Recommendation concerning the General 
>Assembly
>Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 13:37:35 -0700
>
>Dear GA members,
>
>After reading through some of the comments here and in WG-Review, and
>considering the WG-D preliminary report and Kent Crispin's comments on the
>need for small, flexible working groups, I'd like to move the following
>text be adopted. (Someone else can add the whereas's and all - this is just
>the meat of it.)
>
>The Names Council should recommend that the ICANN Board of Directors
>replace Article VI-B Section 4 with the following text:
>------------------------
>(a) The GA shall be an open forum for participation in the work of the 
>DNSO,
>This work includes but is not limited to work item proposal and
>development; discussion of work items proposed by the Names Council;
>draft document preparation; research on topics of interest to the DNSO; and
>recommendations of policies and procedures for the internal use of the
>DNSO. Adopted reports or recommendations of the GA shall be passed to the
>Names Council in a timely manner.
>
>(b) The GA shall be open to all who are willing to contribute effort to the
>work of the DNSO. Participants in the GA should be individuals who have a
>knowledge of and an interest in issues pertaining to the areas for which
>the DNSO has primary responsibility.
>
>(c) Membership in the GA shall consist of those individuals listed in the
>GA Voting Registry.
>
>(d) Participants in the GA shall nominate, pursuant to procedures adopted
>by the NC and approved by the Board, persons to serve on the Board in those
>seats reserved for the DNSO.
>
>(e) Officers of the GA shall include a chair, a co-chair, and an ombudsman.
>Officers of the GA shall be elected annually according to the voting
>procedures adopted by the GA and approved by the NC.
>
>(f) The Officers of the GA shall be members of the Names Council.
>
>(g) The ombudsman shall be responsible for investigating process issues
>within the DNSO, including but not limited to conflicts involving the Names
>Council as a whole. The ombudsman shall report directly to the ICANN Board
>of Directors.
>
>(h) Each constituency formed under Article VI-B Section 3 of these bylaws
>shall select one member as the constituency observer to the GA. Each 
>observer
>will be responsible for informing their constituency of the GA's current
>activities on a timely basis.
>
>(i) The GA shall meet physically at least once a year, if possible in
>conjunction with regularly scheduled meetings of the Board. To the maximum
>extent practicable, all meetings should be available for online attendance
>as well as physical attendance.
>
>(j) The costs of physical GA meetings shall be the responsibility of the 
>DNSO,
>which may levy an equitable, cost-based fee on GA attendees to recoup those
>costs. There shall be no other fees required to participate in the GA. The
>costs of GA mailing lists or other online mechanisms for performing the
>work of the GA shall be the responsibility of the DNSO.
>
>(k) The GA shall adopt it's internal procedures as it sees fit, so long as
>they are fair, transparent, and consistent with these by-laws.
>
>(l) Upon application by no less than five members of the GA, the Chair of
>the GA may recognize a Special Interest Group (SIG). Upon such recognition,
>a SIG shall have a mailing list created by the Secretariat of the DNSO.
>Each SIG shall have a clearly defined interest area, and shall produce
>regular reports for the GA's consideration in that area. Each application
>shall contain a definition of the interest area; a SIG name; and the SIG's
>method for self-organization.
>----------------------
>
>Regards,
>Greg
>
>sidna@feedwriter.com
>
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