[registrars] Fw: [council] Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform Seeks PublicSubmissions

[Ken Stubbs <kstubbs@digitel.net>]

FYI


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Touton" <touton@icann.org>
To: <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: [council] Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform Seeks Public
Submissions


> To the Names Council:
>
> At the ICANN Board meeting held in Accra on 14 March 2002, the Committee
> on ICANN Evolution and Reform was charged with consulting with the
> community concerning reform proposals and reporting back with
> recommendations to be considered by the Board at its Bucharest meeting
> on 28 June 2002.  As part of its work to meet this challenge, today the
> Evolution and Reform Committee made the following announcement to the
> community.  The Committee looks forward to working with the Names
> Council in developing a sound approach to meeting the challenges that
> face the entire ICANN community.
>
> Louis Touton
> ICANN Secretary
>
> ==================================================================
>   Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform Seeks Public Submissions
>
> The Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform welcomes public input from
> all interested persons or entities on the presently ongoing review of
> ICANN's mission, structure, and processes. The earlier the input, the
> more useful it will be in helping the Committee, so it encourages all
> input as soon as possible. The Committee will of course consider all
> comments received, but the expedited schedule that the Committee is
> required to meet means that earlier comments will inevitably be more
> useful than later ones. Any comments received after 29 April 2002 are
> likely to be significantly less useful than those received by that date.
>
> While the Committee has not reached any conclusion that the proposal put
> forth by Stuart Lynn is in whole or in part the most appropriate way to
> meet this goal, it believes that proposal can serve as a useful point
> of reference for analysis and discussion. Thus, it would be helpful for
> comments to make reference to that document, and point out areas of
> agreement and disagreement. The Committee would particularly benefit
> from hearing views on:
>
>    (1) What is or should be ICANN's mission? In this regard, please use
> the recent staff posting as your starting point, and tell us (a) which
> if any of the activities listed there should not be part of ICANN's
> mission, (b) whether there are additional activities not listed that
> should be part of ICANN's mission, and (c) what mechanisms are
> available, once ICANN's mission statement is finalized, to minimize the
> risk that ICANN will stray beyond those boundaries.
>
>    (2) Are the issues raised in Stuart Lynn's report a correct
> perception of the problems facing ICANN? If not, why not? What are the
> real problems?
>
>    (3) Are the specific suggested reforms set forth in that report
> appropriate, and likely to be workable and effective? If not, why not?
> What are your ideas for workable and effective alternatives?
>
>    (4) Assuming you believe that structural and procedural reforms are
> necessary to ensure that ICANN carries out its mission, what transition
> mechanisms or approaches should be used to migrate from the status quo
> to the future environment? Over what time period should this migration
> take place?
>
> In addition to receiving and reviewing public input, the Committee plans
> to engage in an intense effort to gather all relevant information
> (including public comments past and future), consider all options that
> are consistent with ICANN accomplishing its mission and remaining true
> to its core values, reach out to those in the ICANN community that it
> believes can be helpful, and make recommendations to the ICANN Board on
> a schedule that will allow the Board to post whatever it sees fit no
> later than 31 May 2002.
>
> Comments can be forwarded to the Committee in three different ways:
>
>    1. Substantive submissions can be made to reform-comments@icann.org.
> All submissions made will be reviewed, sorted by subject, indexed, and
> posted on the ICANN forum web site. This mechanism is intended to
> promote thoughtful community discussion of the issues involved in the
> ICANN reform process.
>
>    2. The Committee has also established an e-mail address
> (reform@icann.org) which can be used for direct communications to the
> Committee, including both inquiries and comments regarding the
> Committee's report and proposals for the Committee's consideration.
> Submissions to this address will not be routinely posted.
>
>    3. Finally, the existing web-based forum on President Lynn's proposal
> will remain available to all who wish to use it. This forum is
> automatically updated and will not be sorted in any way.
>
> The Committee encourages all interested parties to offer their views on
> the important and complicated subject of ICANN evolution and reform. It
> will appreciate all the help it can get in formulating recommendations.