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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joanna and all remaining assembly members,

  Very good point here Joanna!  Thank you for making it, yet again...  >;)

Joanna Lane wrote:

> 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:
> ------------------------
> (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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