A bit more complication: (a) I don't believe everyone wants to be involved in a meeting at which the ICANN Board decides which vendors to use, where the parking places should be, etc. (These examples are of course highly exaggerated.) The poll might qualify its meaning of ICANN BOARD MEETINGS to mean those, I assume, of a fundamental policy nature. (b) Should this group establish a CHARTER so that all of us are working off the same page? I've just browsed a few of the web pages kindly provided by Jeff Williams and while much is said about the functional mechanics, I see very little in any of them along the line of "in order that . . . ." What? I suspect that (a) everyone involved here has an answer, but (b) the content of those answers would vary all over the map. Again, I'm suggesting that ALL of the authentication, registration, who does what, etc., etc., would be more easily answered if the specific purpose to be served by the answer to each question were agreed upon in advance, and the only way I know how to do that is to have a Charter that would include the usual "Enhance the functioning and operation of the international Internet community," blah, blah, but there are principles of equal protection, comity, transnational legal differences, etc., that should be recognized and spelled out as problems that the group would address. Whether or not ICANN is aware of it or not, the fact remains that all such issues are part of the pot being stirred here -- issues that will bear on all of the more specific topics currently under discussion. So I suggest that if you know WHY you want to do something, that goes a long way towards showing you HOW to do it. Whether anyone agrees with that is worth knowing, I suspect, and for that reason I suggest sticking it into the poll. (I concur with the addition proposed below.) Bill Lovell >Ellen Rony wrote: > >> Michael Sondow wrote: >> >> >ICANN BOARD MEETINGS SHOULD BE: [ ] OPEN [ ] CLOSED >> > >> >THE SOs SHOULD: [ ] INCORPORATE [ ] NOT INCORPORATE >> >> *Much* better! Thanks. >> >> Let's add: >> >> * ICANN MEMBERSHIP SHOULD BE: [ ] FLAT/AT LARGE [ ] CONSTITUENCY-BASED >> [ ] OTHER MODEL >> >> or whatever words accurately describe the current options under discussion. >> __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
