[ga] Organizing structure work.

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

I'm tending towards setting up kind of a WG for this topic, and 
moving the substantial discussions to the ga-icann sublist.  For the 
time of the structure work (which is limited to about six weeks, if 
I gathered this correctly), list monitoring for this sublist would 
be extremely strict, with, in particular, off-topic offenders being 
removed quickly, and radically.  Concerning participants, we should 
invite:

 - the GA membership, of course
 - the membership of the names council (which plans to do a lot of 
   work by itself)
 - any interested parties from constituencies
 - the general public, in particular including those from NAIS and 
   ALSC who care to participate.
 - general public.

We'll also need a close time line, and well defined milestones.  As 
a very first suggestion, what do you folks think about the following?

 - March 15: Have terms of reference, and rules of procedure for the 
   WG done. This discussion should happen on the main GA list (i.e., 
   in this thread).  Send out invitations to NC, constituencies, 
   NAIS, ALSC, ALSC Forum, icann.Blog, icannwatch, Slashdot.  Alex or 
   Danny: Could one of you try to extract terms of reference from 
   your recollection of the NC meeting?  I was listening in on a 
   horrible phone connection.  Possibly re-send invitations on March 
   18 and 21.
 - March 15-22: Brain storming phase.  What could ICANN structure and 
   mission look like?  It may be helpful to try going through the 
   various proposals from the Aspen Institute meeting, plus the Lynn 
   proposal, and to try to cough up something ourselves.  Documents 
   published so far should be collected during this phase, and linked 
   from a task force web site.
 - March 22-29: Identify most interesting approaches, and produce 
   short descriptions of these ones, including arguments given during 
   discussion. This would be the first kind of document production 
   phase.  For document production, I'm _strongly_ suggesting that we 
   use a blog-like document repository with comments, like the thing 
   I've started doing for the whois task force.  Document formats 
   should be kept simple (plain text, HTML, MS-Office or StarOffice 
   without anything fancy - we don't need to repeat the document 
   format conversion hell the whois task force is experiencing, due 
   to my choice of StarOffice and heavy use of OLE tables).
 - March 29: Milestone 1, have a structure and skeleton of a report 
   done.

At that point of time, it should be _possible_ to have a rough idea 
of what proposals we may come up with, and it should also be 
possible to use the subsequent weeks to refine such proposals, and 
add more substance to them.

Any comments?

Also, if you have any online reference material on ICANN structure 
and mission which could be relevant, please send me links.  I'll try 
to set up a reference web page ASAP, where the relevant material is 
linked from.

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Thomas Roessler                        http://log.does-not-exist.org/
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