[wg-review] DNSO Study

["babybows.com" <webmaster@babybows.com>]

Posted to the public forum:

I thank the ICANN Board for the opportunity to provide input regarding ways
by which we may come to improve operations of the DNSO as it is constituted
today, and further appreciate the opportunity to provide suggestions which
may result in changes in the structure of the DNSO and/or major changes in
its functioning.  Having been a participant in the Review Working Group, I
am appreciative of the concerted effort that was made to respond to the
Board's request for a general review of the DNSO, and I look forward to
seeing the final report of this working group.
     My concern is that while ample time and resources were dedicated to the
first phase of the review project (ten months to determine the diagnosis),
limited time (5 weeks) has been allowed for the most important phase of the
project (solutions).  It is my humble opinion that a more comprehensive
study is called for, as the possible restructuring of a Supporting
Organization is not a matter to be taken lightly.  To the same degree that
the at-Large study required full and proper funding, as well as a
blue-ribbon panel of committee members, so too should a study regarding the
future of the DNSO be properly convened with ample resources, well-respected
committee members and an appropriate timeline in which to complete its
mission.
     I propose the following:  an initial committee consisting of the
current and former chairs of the General Assembly, the current and former
chairs of the Names Council, the chair of the Review Working Group, the NC
Liaison to the Review Working Group, the Chair of the Review Task Force,
ICANN legal counsel, and the Head of the DNSO Secretariat.  This Committee
shall act upon the findings of the review process and propose necessary
changes.
     The draft report of this committee shall then be submitted to an
independent panel for rigorous review (by experts who are anonymous to the
committee and which shall be selected by the ICANN Board).  Upon conclusion
of this review, the committee will then respond to the panel's
recommendations with appropriate revisions, and finally submit a
consensus-based report for public comment prior to submission to the ICANN
Board.

Thank you for your consideration,
Danny Younger


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