Re: [wg-review] 3. [Constituencies] Rough Proposal C - eliminate NC,keepconstituencies

[ERIC@HI-TEK.COM]

I have finally found a "thread" which I believe follows the mandate of the
working group.

I am business director of Hi-Tek Multimedia.  We own, administer, market and
develop Second Level Domain names in .net, .org, .com, .tv, .ws and soon .la and
are working on a few more ccTLD's. We are also affiliate or partners with
several registries. We are an ISP and Network Solutions provider.  We also work
in secure e-commerce development. One of our companies is an IPO dotcom corp. I
work extensively in trademarks and copyrights. So as far as transparency goes
anyone can pick a constituency to which I belong.

ICANN was established as a corporation, corporations historically have voting
blocks which are determined by the ownership of differing types of stock.  Many
of the problems faced by ICANN would be eliminated by adopting/adapting the
model from which it was formed.
As a furtherance of this concept, I believe that Robert's Rules of Order can be
easily adapted to fit this type of WG protocol.
Sincerely

Roeland Meyer wrote:

> I just got back in town last night so this is a little delayed.
>
> I think that Milton has probably the most salient point here, than all the
> others combined.
>
> We've all been witness to various capture algorithms, wrt ICANN/DNSO. IMHO,
> this is the main reason we are having this WG now. The ICANN/DNSO gets
> captured by a faction and all the disenfranchised factions stop wanting to
> play. In business and engineering, one starts off with some sort of problem
> description, followed a clear path to a requirements definition. Only then,
> does one consider implementation details. We have all seen a few years worth
> of wasted effort because we HAVEN'T followed that process.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Milton Mueller [mailto:mueller@syr.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 4:16 PM
> > To: sidna@feedwriter.com
> > Cc: wg-review@dnso.org
> > Subject: Re: [wg-review] 3. [Constituencies] Rough Proposal C -
> > eliminate NC, keepconstituencies
> >
> >
> > I'll make the same response to you, Greg, that I just made to
> > Joop. You are putting forward solutions before documenting
> > problems convincingly. It will be very easy for the people
> > who control NC and the Board to ignore recommendations that
> > they don't like. It will be harder for them to ignore a
> > detailed bill of particulars that shows how and why the DNSO
> > is dysfunctional. We can append to that bill of particulars a
> > series of ideas about how to fix it, but that could be an
> > open-ended list of the most popular ideas, leaving details to
> > a future WG.
> >
> > >>> Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com> 12/31/00 13:26 PM >>>
> > Rough Proposal C - Eliminate the names council and keep the
> > concept of
> > "official" constituencies.
> >
> > This is a rough proposal that takes a different, albeit
> > radical, approach
> > to the issue. I believe that this addresses many of the issues and
> > questions brought by the Board, recognizes the value of
> > "constituencies",
> > and provides mechanisms for improving both the DNSO functions
> > and output.
> >
> > A. Proposal Structure and Process
> >          1. GA to elect ICANN board members directly
> >                  1 person, 1 vote
> >                  all elected at once
> >                  runoff election to 6 nominees
> >                  top 3 elected
> >          2. Formal Constituencies Continue to Exist
> >                  a. rationale
> >                          1. natural communities of interest
> >                          2. recognition of a specific stake
> >                          3. encourage diversity of processes and views
> >                  b. proposed role
> >                          1. Provide discussion forum for
> > constituency-specific concerns
> >                          2. Develop constituency position papers for
> > ublication to the Board, the GA, and Working Groups
> >                          3. Participate in the creation of
> > working groups
> >                          4. Do outreach to currently
> > non-involved parties
> > who might have a stake
> >                  c. creation and ongoing support
> >                          1. Criteria for recognition
> >                                  a. description of constituency
> >                                  b. threshold # of GA members
> > who wish to
> > form it
> >                                  c. immediate financial
> > contribution of
> > constituency (minimal = cost of setting up list, web
> >                                     site, forums, and polls;
> > and hosting
> > for a year)
> >                          2. Process of implementation
> >                          3. Support requirements
> >          3. GA to elect a chair and small exec committee
> >                  a. role of chair
> >                  b. role of executive committee
> >          4. Working Groups provide the SO-wide research and consensus
> > development process on substantive issues.
> >                  a. creation
> >                          1. board request
> >                          2. executive committee request
> >                          3. constituencies request - 3 or more?
> >                          4. GA request - threshold of 25
> > members requesting it?
> >                  b. process
> >          5. Financing and Resources
> >                  a. secretariat
> >                  b. funding
> >                  c. required resources
> > B. Questions and friction areas addressed by the proposal
> >          Proper definition of GA function and role
> >          facilitation of GA member participation in the GA
> >          facilitation of Constituency member participation in the GA
> >          facilitation of goals for constituencies
> >          facilitation of consensus-building goals
> >          inclusive representation
> >          facilitation of outreach goals
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Greg
> >
> > sidna@feedwriter.com
> >
> >
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