At 01:07 AM 11/17/99 , erony wrote:
>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.
The way I read it, only NSI has
the right to dispute the claims
of consensus from ICANN.
The rest of the rabble have
exactly what we had before --
nada.
Jay.
>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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