RE: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, at 20:43 [=GMT-0800], Karl Auerbach wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, at 13:40 [=GMT-0800], Karl Auerbach wrote:
> >
> > > It was only a couple of weeks ago when ICANN's management brought to the
> > > board a Memorandum of Understanding - not a contract but a MoU - that
> > > retained nearly all the elements of the volunteer aspect of root server
> > > operations.  ICANN's management strongly advocated and fought for this
> > > loose and vague structure.
> >
> > Can we read this somewhere? I cannot find it on ICANN's website. Is it top
> > secret? Guess not, or they would not have let you read it :-(
>
> Are you telling me that ICANN's staff hasn't posted the Root Server
> Operator Memorandum of Understanding?  It was in January, I believe, when
> it was brought to the board.

It is not mentioned at:

http://www.icann.org/committees/dns-root/

to which the prelim report of that Board Meeting links.

And I do not find it using the search function.

> That's one of the few things that is actually in a reasonable scope of
> ICANN's duties.  And it has direct impact on the quality of DNS services
> as seen by the net's users.  And it isn't posted?

If it is there, it is hidden well.

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