Re: do we want to have constituency meetings in singapore next month?

["Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP, Executive Director" <akraft@association.org>]

Chon and all,

While not OPPOSED, personally, to a meeting of constituencies, keep in mind
that at this point, there are TWO proposals for the DNSO, and only ONE
defines which constituencies there will be. Unless either 1) the two are
merged pre-Singapore or 2) ICANN selects one over the other, it doesn't make
much sense to hold constituency meetings. I would much rather see time for a
meeting of the proposers of each of the two proposals in a negotiating
session.

What I would propose is for the morning of 3.2, see if you can schedule an
open negotiating session of the folks from the proposals. That would be the
"signing sponsors" of the Paris draft and of the DNSO.org draft. I have no
problem if the MEETING is open (ie, there is an audience), but this should
be a merging meeting, rather than an incorporate-new-ideas meeting. Then,
once (hoepfully) the two drafts are merged into a coherent whole, we then
have DNSO meetings in which everyone can participate (ie, not just watch),
talking about what changes, if any, need to be made to that merged draft.

NOTE: AIP is collecting suggestions to the Paris draft at the address
specified at the dnso.association.org web site, and will send those, as
well, so that the input of the public on the lists are also included in the
post-draftmerger meetings.

If all this takes place on 3.2, then we finally have a SINGLE proposal that
ICANN can approve or not at its Board Meeting, and then, on 3.5, the work of
the DNSO can begin...

Just a proposal.

Thoughts?

Sincerely,
Andrew

Kilnam Chon wrote:
> we have the following DNSO and ICANN Board meetings in singapore;
> 
>   1999.3.2      DNSO Meeting(8:00 - 18:00)
>   1999.3.3                                      ICANN Open Meeting
>   1999.3.4                                      ICANN Board Meeting(Closed)
>   1999.3.5      DNSO Meeting(8:00 - 18:00)
> 
> our question/suggestion is "do we want to hold preliminary DNSO constituency
> meetings on 1999.3.4?" if we do, then some constituencies would meet in the
> morning or afternoon in parallel on 1999.3.4.  For example,
> 
>         Morning                 Afternoon
> 
>         ISP & Connectivity      Business
>         Registry                Registrar
>         Trademark               Non-commercial
> 
> some of the reasons for the above proposal are
> 
> 1. it may make sense for SOME constituencies to have preliminary meetings
>    since many are in singapore.
> 2. there are no specific DNSO/ICANN events to participate on 1999.3.4(of
>    course, there are many sessions at APRICOT and Internet World Conference,
>    but this is a different matter.)
> 
> let us know if you like the above proposal.  we are going to decide if we
> coordinate these meetings on 1999.03.04 as well as the second DNSO Meeting
> on 1999.03.05 during 1999.03.02 DNSO Meeting.

-- 
Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP
Executive Director, Association of Internet Professionals (AIP)
Email:      akraft@association.org
Phone:      310-724-6589
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