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[ga] Three years of the General Assembly of the DNSO
Three years of the General Assembly of the DNSO
24 May 2002
The DNSO GA is going to celebrate its 3rd Birthday on 25 May 2002.
Over three years the DNSO has been working in open and transparent way,
providing the place for essential public representation in debates on ICANN
policies, thanks to endless efforts of many individuals.
DNSO Background
1. The DNSO has been formed as the result of long consultation process in
1998 and 1999, cf. http://www.dnso.org/history/www.dnso.org/
"There is no single organization that meets the exact
requirements for the Domain Name Support Organization
("DNSO") specified in the Bylaws of the reconstituted
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), also known as the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Therefore, such an organization must be formed."
2. The structure of the Domain Name Supporting Organization of ICANN was
determined in Singapore, on 4 March 1999, see "Domain Name Supporting
Organization Formation Concepts at
http://www.icann.org/dnso-formation.html
3. The first General Assembly of the DNSO has been held on 25 May 1999, in
Berlin, cf. http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990527.GAberlin.html
The first www.dnso.org server was created on 23 September
1998 on the initiative of Amadeu Abril i Abril. Until 8 June
1999 the old www.dnso.org server was kindly hosted by the
International Telecommunication Union at Geneva. Subsequent
to the DNSO GA in Berlin, the new www.dnso.org server was set
up on 1st June 1999 at AFNIC offices in Paris, and started
operations immediately. More at
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990606.GAberlin-dnsoreport.html
DNSO Facts
1. In August 1999 the DNSO (NC and GA) has been providing on time the WG-A
report on UDRP policies for the gTLD space
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990804.NCwga-to-ICANN.html
2. In September-October 1999 the DNSO (NC and GA) has been electing on
time 3 ICANN Board Directors
http://www.dnso.org/elections/1999.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html.
Since then every year the DNSO (NC and GA) elects 1 ICANN Board
Director.
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2000.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html.
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2001.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html.
3. In November-December 1999 the DNSO (NC and GA) has been developing the
procedures for election of the GA Chair and hold the first election
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/1999.DNSO-GAchair.html
4. In 2000 the DNSO GA has been developing its working rules and
procedures, and come up with Fundamentals - Membership definition,
Voting Registry and two Rules for votes by the GA:
A. Voting Rules adopted by the GA on 6 July 2000:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-voting-rules.html
B. Election Rules (Instant Runoff) adopted by the GA on 23 March
2001:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.GA-chair-election-rules-v0.2.html
5. Between June 2000 and May 2002, 2 years time, the DNSO GA voted 12
times.
The summary of those votes (date, electorate, participation to vote,
subject, URL to the full records of vote) are provided in:
http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/gavotesummary.html
6. The current status of the DNSO GA Voting Registry shows 583 persons,
from 54 different countries.
The GA Voting Registry includes members from various sectors
of activity (gTLD Registries, Registrars, ccTLD Managers,
Business, Universities, Telecommunication Industry,
Law firms, Consumers organizations) as well as individuals.
Some ICANN Board Directors, current or former, are on the
Voting Registry records.
The IETF Chair is on the Voting Registry records.
One may note on the Voting Registry the participation of Ms
Becky Burr, who was representing the US Government and
signing the first MoU with ICANN on 25 November 1998, cf.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/icann-memorandum.htm,
and in the GA archives the participation of Joe Sims, who
was signatory to the same MoU on behalf of ICANN newly
created.
7. The DNSO archives shows a 29 months record of participation to various
DNSO GA mailing lists, week by week, at
http://www.dnso.org/statistics/dnsostatistics.html
It starts with 526 different persons in January 2000. Currently
990 persons are subscribers, following debates on Domain Names
related issues in ICANN process.
8. The DNSO publishes monthly statistics of www.dnso.org usage at
http://www.dnso.org/webstats/
9. The current DNSO Secretariat has been chosen by the Names Council in
August 2001, subsequent to the determination by the NC of its needs,
the selection process and the selection criterias. The RFP of this
international bid is available at
http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/2001.RFP-DNSO.html.
The new DNSO Secretariat started to operate in October 2001, and is
still awaiting the signature of contract for services with ICANN,
acting as legal entity for the DNSO.
The DNSO Secretariat operates with a budget of $60,000 per year, which
is approximately 2 orders of magnitude smaller than ICANN budget.
All documents, agendas, minutes and Mpeg3 recordings of the NC
meetings are available in archives. The comprehensive summary
of the NC meetings in 2002 is provided at
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2002.NC-calendar.html
Elisabeth Porteneuve, the first DNSO Secretary
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