RE: [wg-review] Final Draft on constituency recommendation

["Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Recommendation: It is recommended that the Board immediately call for the
formation of an
Individual Domain Name Holders' Constituency (IC). The IC shall be a
self-organized Constituency Group within the DNSO.
To ensure that the IC is representative of its constituents and is
self-organized, no existing ICANN organization or any other self-appointed
committee/group, including, but, not limited to the NC or any present
constituency within the GA, may direct the coordination of constituency
formation efforts.  To that end, those who are working to organize the IC
should inform ICANN of those efforts by participation on an e-mail list to
be established by the DNSO Secretariat. IC organizers are reminded that they
are required to operate to the maximum extent feasible in an open and
transparent manner and consistent with procedures designed to ensure
fairness.

Bearing the above paragraph in mind, there has to be some accountability for
those who set themselves up as public organizers. I suggest that the civil
identity of each IC ML subscriber should be verified by the DNSO Secretariat
prior to joining the group and that any pre-existing constituency
memberships should be disclosed as part of that process, past or present. I
would go further and say that those individuals who are already members of
existing constituencies should also be excluded from directing co-ordination
of constituency formation efforts, on the basis of conflict of interest,
although they may certainly observe proceedings by reviewing the public
archive of the ML.
Regards,
Joanna

 IT IS FURTHER recommended that the Board call for the
establishment of the IC without delay in order to provide sufficient time
for the IC to establish its proposal for the Board's recognition at the
ICANN meeting in Stockholm. During the formation process, the IC organizers
should prepare without undue dely an appropriate statement(s) of their
criteria for participation in the IC and their planned process for selecting
Names Council members. These statement(s) will be distributed to the ICANN
Board and posted on the ICANN web site.

Rod



Rod Dixon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Rutgers University Law School - Camden
www.cyberspaces.org
rod@cyberspaces.org


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