[ga] Draft of Bylaws Recommendation concerning the General Assembly

[Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com>]

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:
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(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.
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Regards,
Greg

sidna@feedwriter.com

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