RE: DNSO APPLICATION TIMETABLE

["William X. Walsh" <william@wxweb.qnis.net>]

On 02-Jan-99 Amadeu Abril i Abril wrote:
> We and other stakeholders are seeking to ensure integration of other 
> proposals (e.g. the 'INTA' proposal, etc.) with the DNSO proposal.  
> We will also review and address concerns of other stakeholders and to 
> this end we again invite all interested parties to participate (the more 
> actively the better) in helping to prepare an application.  In addition, 
> we intend to actively seek out other relevant parties.
> 
> In order to achieve the objective of a representative, open and 
> transparent process in drafting the DNSO application, the discussions 
> surrounding the application have been, and will continue to be open and 
> evolutionary, and we continue to seek comments from all interested 
> parties. You are therefore encouraged to submit comments, NOW, for the 
> current draft dated 16 December, 1998.  Your comments should be submitted 
> to: <proposals@dnso.org>. Note: For administration reasons any comments 
> submitted after the 5th of January, 1999 will most probably not be treated 
> until the next and final 'draft'. For purposes of transparency, and in 
> accordance with standard procedures, all comments received will be posted 
> on the DNSO web site (http://www.dnso.org), with links to appropriate sites.
> 
> The next and penultimate iteration of the Application will be published 
> on January 12th, 1999 and will take into account all comments and 
> discussions received to date.  In addition, we will take all other 
> proposals into account and expect to be able to address satisfactorily any 
> comments/concerns allowing us to incorporate these proposals into our 
> application.  This date has been set in order to allow for all substantive 
> comments to be addressed in advance of various meetings being held in 
> January, including the meeting planned for January 22nd in Washington DC. 
> We have a lot to achieve in advance of these meetings to ensure that we 
> have an application that incorporates all relevant and necessary points.  
> Additional meetings are being arranged specifically to seek out other 
> stakeholder points of view.  The Period for Comments on this final draft 
> will close on the 26th of January to allow time for the Application to be 
> finalized and submitted.
> 
> We would like as broad a participation as possible and therefore we 
> encourage you to send in your comments NOW! 

Who is the "We" you speak of above?

Exactly who will determine which comments/suggestions are accepted and
incorporated?

Who exactly is making these decisions, and with what authority. 

It is time for the leadership of the DNSO.org process to reveal themselves and
accept responsibility for their actions.

Who decides what each draft will include and what it will not, and how are
these decisions being made?

I have seen no voting mechanism in place for participants to use to declare
support or opposition to compenents of the current public draft, or for the
draft as a whole.  Who is deciding which proposals and suggestions have
significant support in the participants (or should I say so called
participants?).

I have asked these questions before, and I ask them again now.

It needs to be in the public eye exactly who is making these decisions and
taking these actions in the name of a "open and fair" process, speaking for all
of us "participants."


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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <william@wxweb.qnis.net>
Date: 02-Jan-99
Time: 20:47:13
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