Jay,
Sorry for the delay, my mail has had a bad cold ;-)
> >{ 2.1 Membership.
> >{
> >{... Any ICANN member with expertise or interest in domain name
> >{ issues may join the DNSO General Assembly by submitting a membership {
> >application.
> >
> >Isnt an 'ICANN member' anyone at all? Will any application be disbarred?
>
>
> The Paris meeting had a consensus that people
> and organizations should be allowed to join the
> DNSO. How to define a person or an organization,
> and how to prevent ballot stuffing, however, were
> topics that had no easy answer.
Rather, the easy technical answers are incompatible with social
constraints. :-/ For instance, if computer users had to register
their machines as Canadians did their radios during the War,
wouldnt that have been a nice ready-to-go database for just this
sort of purpose?
Even in these free and easy days, registration as a net-user might
not be totally unthinkable *if* netizenship conferred some privilege
besides getting involved in endless wrangles - a jim-dandy
screensaver, maybe;-) (ICANN as a portal?!)
> >{ 2.2 The General Assembly.
...
> The [*]who are willing to contribute[*] part
> was not meant to be a strict requirement, only
> something agreed to by the members.
Nevertheless, hasnt it just come up in the context of 'public
interest' versus disruptive galoots?
> >{ 3.1 Overview and Purpose.
> >{
> >{ The Names Council shall facilitate cooperation and consensus...
> >{ ... forward recommendations... to the Board of ICANN.... *seek input and
> > review* of any proposed recommendations from all Members...
> >
> >If proposals originating in the Names Council must be processed by the
> >general assembly, is there a definition of how long or what quorum is
> >sufficient for consensus?
>
> I don't understand your question, please restate.
>
I take 3.1 to mean either that the NC shall not initiate *any
recommendations to the BoI, but only clean up and pass along
those that originate in general assembly, or that if the NC initiates
a proposal, it will be run by the gen assy first (essentially, find an
assembly member to sponsor it). Either way may work fine, but
just what does 'review' by the assembly mean in practice? Can
they table (or filibuster) an NC proposal?
I appreciate that there wont likely be any great chasm between
the g.a. and the NC, but if consensus is what we really end up with
when the assembly suggests to the council and the council
suggests to the assy, isnt consensual language appropriately
included in the structure?
kerry
