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. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
