While all attention has been focused on the DNSO, on feb 5th three major
commercial ISP associations submitted and application for an address
supporting organization which as far as i know what did not make it into
anyones press releases.
While Icann has been in the biggest hurry imaginable to get DNSO up and
running they have ignored a single ASO application submitted by the
majority of the ISPs that an ASO is designed to serve.
Why is that????
This was a unified document submittted to ICANN by its alleged
constituents, yet on the ICANN web site it is labled as a pariah.
Why is that????
ICANN Supporting Organization Applications and Comments
IMPORTANT NOTICE - This document is only an application for recognition as
a Supporting Organization. It is NOT authoritative and are NOT to be
relied on by any party.
http://www.icann.org/aso/aso-app.rtf
February 5, 1999
Ms. Esther Dyson
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Today we are pleased to submit the attached application to be recognized as
the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) for the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The ASO will have responsibility for administering and managing a critical
Internet public resource - the Internet address space. This resource is,
in some ways, even more valuable and essential than the name space as it is
limited and finite until we move to IPV6.
Our basic goal in filing this proposal is to reflect the division of
responsibilities that existed prior to the most recent privatization step,
which involved the DNS more than IP addressing. Under that organizational
schema, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) designated the
regional registries and set substantive policies after consultation with
the relevant stakeholders. The three regional registries then implemented
these policies as they determined appropriate to their particular regions.
The separation of legal, i.e., policymaking, authority and implementing,
i.e., executive, authority worked well and is worthy of emulation.
Day-to-day operational authority will remain in the hands of the regional
registries, which function like the executive branches of democratic
governments.
We are currently working to coordinate submissions with the regional
address registries. We would have preferred a delay in the final
submission and selection deadlines until after the March APRICOT meeting in
Singapore. A delay would give APIA and other Internet stakeholders
gathered in Singapore an opportunity to further discuss and submit their
proposals for the ASO and the DNSO. It is still our hope that the ICANN
board will solicit APRICOT participants' views and incorporate them into
the final decision.
In addition to the signatories below, other national ISP trade associations
may join us but have not been able to communicate with us prior to this
submission.
Commercial Internet eXchange Association (CIX)
EuroISPA
Federacion de LatinoAmerica y el Caribe Para Internet y el Comercio
Electronico (eCOM-LAC)
cc: Mr. Michael Roberts
ICANN President and CEO
Attachment
Cook:
perhaps ICANN was loathe to give any credence to the ASO application
because it has more strict ethics and conflict of interest standards than
ICANN?
Ethics and Conflict of Interest
To ensure that there are no or minimal ethical problems and conflicts of
interest, there will be appointed by the ASO, with the agreement of the
three categories of members, an independent inspector general to ensure
that the provisions of this proposal are carried out and that there are no
financial or non-financial conflicts of interest. Staff, directors, and
commission members shall be required to identify actual or potential
conflicts before assuming any official SO responsibility, shall refrain
from voting on issues that could benefit that person, and shall conform to
general legal guidelines established by the ASO or ICANN.
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