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

["Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Greg,
I have one comment about (i) online attendance. There was a great deal of
frustration expressed by online participants in LA because comments and
questions being passed forward were more often than not ignored by those
physically present and the manner in which the these were considered often
seemed arbitrary. In order to avoid the GA AGM also turning into an elitist
group of those who can afford the time and money to participate physically,
I'd like to see the wording strengthened to give online participants equal
rights to participate and vote. It's a small point and as always, you have
done a fine job....:-)
Regards,
Joanna Lane


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Greg
Burton
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:38 PM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] Draft of Bylaws Recommendation concerning the General
Assembly


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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