[ga] Preliminary report on the NC June 25th meeting

[Javier SOLA <javier@aui.es>]

Folks,

I am afraid I sent this out on the June 26th from the wrong e-mail address.
It bounced and I did not notice.

Javier

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June 25th provisional Names Council (pNC) administrative meeting

This is an unofficial preliminary report prepared to inform everybody of
decisions made by the pNC as soon as possible.

It is quite possible that this report -prepared without notes- might have
left out some decisions of the pNC. It only includes the decisions of the
pNC, not the discussion that led to them. Corrections are welcome, please
send them to me. Minutes will be posted as soon as possible. 

Javier

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On the General Assembly of the DNSO

It was resolved that the General Assembly of the DNSO will be a permanent
body in which, following the ICANN Bylaws, anybody may participate. 

It was resolved that ga@dnso.org will be the official mean of communication
for the General Assembly of the DNSO. The discuss@dnso.org list will be
renamed as ga@dnso.org

The General Assembly of the DNSO may also meet physically, and will do so
for the first time in Santiago on August 24th, 1999.

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On Working Group A

It was reported that WG A was progressing very slowly. It was resolved that
the WG Chairs will decide -on the date the report from WG A is due for the
provisional Names Council (July 7th)- if an extension  is necessary to
finish their report.


On Working Group C

It was resolved to create WG C following a proposal from Javier Sola.
Javier Sola will be in charge of creating the WG. The highlights of the
proposal are:

a) That all applicantions received be accepted in the WG.
b) That the WG mailing list(s) be publically archived in the www.dnso.org
website.
c) That the WG be divided into three groups that will study 1) New gTLDs
(which, how many, deplyment speed, etc..) 2) Selection procedure for the
new Registry 3) Operation procedures for the new Registry.
d) That the calendar includes two public comments for the Names Council and
one more for ICANN once the Names Council report has been sent to ICANN.

The complete charter, calendar and member list are in the www.dnso.org
website.


On Working Group B

It was resolved to also create WG B to review the treatment of Famous
Trade-marks. WG B will operate under the same procedures as WG C. Johnathan
Cohen is in charge of creating the Working Group.


On Drafting Group to develop Working Group Procedures (F).

It was resolved to create a Drafting Group (DG) for the development of WG
procedures. The DG has three weeks to present a report to the provisional NC.

As soon as the procedures are developed, all working groups and committees
will operate under the rules developed, this will include committees on
Internal procedures, business plan, outreach and global awarness, which
might be created before the procedures are finished and approved by the
provisional Names Council.


On the Calendar

It was resolved to hold a teleconference meeting of the provisional Names
Council on Monday July 12th. The meeting will be webcasted and an e-mail
address will be provided for those who want to send their opinions into the
meeting. Comments received will be automatically posted in the website for
all members of the provisional NC and anybody else to read.

The date of a meeting of the provisional NC to finalise the final report on
Dispute Resolution Policy will be decided on the 12th.

It was resolved that a physical meeting of the General Assembly of the DNSO
will take place in Santiago (Chile) on the afternoon of August 24th. It
will be preceded by meetings of the constituencies during the morning of
the same day.

It was also resolved to maintain the meeting on the afternoon of August
26th to assess the decisions of the ICANN Board and to plan for future action.

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