The DOC/ICANN/NSI Agreement contains an important provision that removes
the mumble approach that ICANN heretofore claimed as community consensus.
The agreement signed on November 10 specifies how consensus shall be
documented.
But does the DOC/ICANN/NSI Agreement itself represent consensus?
I have prepared a comparison of the Tenative Agreements among the U.S.
Department of Commerce, ICANN, and Network Solutions, Inc., posted for
public comment on September 28, 1999 and the Agreement adopted at the
Annual Meeting of ICANN on November 4 (signed by the parties on November
10, 1999).
The changes posted at http://www.domainhandbook.com/icann-nsi.html with
deletions in strikethrough, additions in green, should reflect public
sentiment expressed in the 139 emails submitted to ICANN in the month prior
to adoption and the comments made at the public forum in Los Angeles and
remotely on November 3.
This draft/outcome comparison provides half of the equation. Perhaps
someone on this list can weigh the comments against the outcomes.
A host of other documents underwent changes between the drafts posted on
September 28 and the versions approved by the ICANN board on November 4.
Some comparisons are in progress, but the following ones are posted:
* Appendix A, E and F to the DOC/ICANN/NSI Registry Agreement
<http://www.domainhandbook.com/icann-ns-append.html>
* Amendment 19 of the DOC/NSI Cooperative Agreement
<http://www.domainhandbook.com/amendment19.html>
* Amendment 1 to the DoC/ICANN Memorandum of Understanding
<http://www.domainhandbook.com/icann-mou.html>
Now I think I'll take the rest of the night off.
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