Read this as they didn't take into account the sacred INEG (see http://www.dso.net/wwalsh/jeffw/ for info on INEG/Jeff Williams) reports from their meetings and Jeff is feeling a little bent out of shape. After all the 15,000+ residents of his Ant Farm and their opinions should have more influence than all of us, right? On 03-Mar-99 jeff Williams wrote: > Bret and all, > Thank you for passing this on to everyone, even though it is grossly > inaccurate and not representative of the actual events and discussion. > Not small suprise there however. Brian Hollingsworth from our group > will be putting out a general update that should better reflect the actual > events sometime this evening I am told. > > The single biggest point of inaccuracy here is that there was NO > points of consensus at the DNSO meeting and none of the previous > comments which the ICANN requested prior to the Singapore meeting were > conspicuously omitted, verifying that there is certainly not a > consensus on either of the discussed DNSO drafts. > > Bret A. Fausett wrote: > > > Just a quick message to let you know what's going on in Singapore on the > > DNSO front. > > > > A meeting was held on Tuesday, March 2nd among many of the parties active > > in the DNSO process to review the two DNSO proposals and look for areas > > of consensus. In the morning session, we reviewed many of our areas of > > disagreement, and although we worked cooperatively, we seemed to make > > little progress. Shortly before lunch, Dennis Jennings and Fay Howard, > > representatives of CENTR, presented a document that listed the principles > > they thought necessary to be embodied in the DNSO, and they discussed > > whether the Paris proposal, the BMW proposal, or both met those > > principles. > > > > The group found this very helpful, and after the lunch break, we decided > > to use the CENTR principles as a list of talking points to review our > > areas of agreement and disagreement. Much to our surprise, as we worked > > our way down the list we found consensus on virtually all of the CENTR > > principles. As we discussed the principles one by one, we annotated the > > CENTR document to include additional comments or to flag areas of > > disagreement. At the end of the day, we agreed to submit this new > > annotated document to the ICANN Board for consideration. It was not meant > > to be a "new" proposal, but rather a road map to help the ICANN Board > > understand where the two groups had shared beliefs. We also agreed that > > rather than use our very limited time at the March 3rd public meeting (20 > > minutes to present and 30 minutes for questions) to present drafts that > > the Board already had read, we would allow Dennis to present the > > consensus document from the day before. > > > > (A copy of the Annotated CENTR document is online at: > > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/singapore-0399/archive/DNSOdraft.html) > > > > For those of you who listened via RealAudio, you know that there was some > > discussion about whether the previous proposals had been withdrawn, > > whether the process should be delayed for additional commentary, etc. > > > > For those who didn't participate, a good summary of the discussion can be > > found at: > > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/singapore-0399/archive/scribe.html > > > > At the end of day, the ICANN Board seemed to believe that it had all of > > the information that it needed to make a decision on the DNSO. Using the > > two proposals, the Singapre-CENTR consensus document, the various > > commentaries and letters of support, and e-mail traffic on this and other > > lists, the Board appears inclined to make a decision tomorrow. > > > > I do not believe that they will choose one proposal or another. Everyone > > in the room seemed to assume that the Board would use the Singapre-CENTR > > consensus document and the two submitted proposals to construct the new > > DNSO. We should hear something from the Board by tomorrow afternoon. > > > > I hope this is helpful. -- Bret > > > > --- > > You are subscribed to dnso.discuss as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, change your list options, or view archives go to: > > http://lists.association.org/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=dnso.discuss > > This list system donated by Lyris Technologies (http://www.lyris.com/). > > Regards, > > -- > Jeffrey A. Williams > CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. > Information Network Eng. Group. 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