Re: [ga] Three years of the General Assembly of the DNSO

["Peter Dengate Thrush" <barrister@chambers.gen.nz>]

Many thanks, Elisabeth, for a great record of the history of the DNSO!

Could I suggest that you also record the ccTLD constituency's decision of
June 2001, and announced in its Stockholm communique, to withdraw from the
DNSO?

I think that was a major step in the growth of the DNSO as the forum for
g-tld issues.


Thanks again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elisabeth Porteneuve" <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 1:34 AM
Subject: [ga] Three years of the General Assembly of the DNSO


>
>
>          Three years of the General Assembly of the DNSO
>
> 24 May 2002
>
> The DNSO GA is going to celebrate its 3rd Birthday on 25 May 2002.
>
> Over three years the DNSO has been working in open and transparent way,
> providing the place for essential public representation in debates on
ICANN
> policies, thanks to endless efforts of many individuals.
>
> DNSO Background
>
>   1. The DNSO has been formed as the result of long consultation process
in
>      1998 and 1999, cf. http://www.dnso.org/history/www.dnso.org/
>
>           "There is no single organization that meets the exact
>           requirements for the Domain Name Support Organization
>           ("DNSO") specified in the Bylaws of the reconstituted
>           Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), also known as the
>           Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
>           Therefore, such an organization must be formed."
>
>   2. The structure of the Domain Name Supporting Organization of ICANN was
>      determined in Singapore, on 4 March 1999, see "Domain Name Supporting
>      Organization Formation Concepts at
>      http://www.icann.org/dnso-formation.html
>
>   3. The first General Assembly of the DNSO has been held on 25 May 1999,
in
>      Berlin, cf. http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990527.GAberlin.html
>
>           The first www.dnso.org server was created on 23 September
>           1998 on the initiative of Amadeu Abril i Abril. Until 8 June
>           1999 the old www.dnso.org server was kindly hosted by the
>           International Telecommunication Union at Geneva. Subsequent
>           to the DNSO GA in Berlin, the new www.dnso.org server was set
>           up on 1st June 1999 at AFNIC offices in Paris, and started
>           operations immediately. More at
>           http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990606.GAberlin-dnsoreport.html
>
> DNSO Facts
>
>   1. In August 1999 the DNSO (NC and GA) has been providing on time the
WG-A
>      report on UDRP policies for the gTLD space
>      http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990804.NCwga-to-ICANN.html
>
>   2. In September-October 1999 the DNSO (NC and GA) has been electing on
>      time 3 ICANN Board Directors
>      http://www.dnso.org/elections/1999.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html.
>
>      Since then every year the DNSO (NC and GA) elects 1 ICANN Board
>      Director.
>      http://www.dnso.org/elections/2000.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html.
>      http://www.dnso.org/elections/2001.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html.
>
>   3. In November-December 1999 the DNSO (NC and GA) has been developing
the
>      procedures for election of the GA Chair and hold the first election
>      http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/1999.DNSO-GAchair.html
>
>   4. In 2000 the DNSO GA has been developing its working rules and
>      procedures, and come up with Fundamentals - Membership definition,
>      Voting Registry and two Rules for votes by the GA:
>
>        A. Voting Rules adopted by the GA on 6 July 2000:
>           http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-voting-rules.html
>
>        B. Election Rules (Instant Runoff) adopted by the GA on 23 March
>           2001:
>
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.GA-chair-election-rules-v0.2.html
>
>   5. Between June 2000 and May 2002, 2 years time, the DNSO GA voted 12
>      times.
>
>      The summary of those votes (date, electorate, participation to vote,
>      subject, URL to the full records of vote) are provided in:
>      http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/gavotesummary.html
>
>   6. The current status of the DNSO GA Voting Registry shows 583 persons,
>      from 54 different countries.
>
>           The GA Voting Registry includes members from various sectors
>           of activity (gTLD Registries, Registrars, ccTLD Managers,
>           Business, Universities, Telecommunication Industry,
>           Law firms, Consumers organizations) as well as individuals.
>
>           Some ICANN Board Directors, current or former, are on the
>           Voting Registry records.
>
>           The IETF Chair is on the Voting Registry records.
>
>           One may note on the Voting Registry the participation of Ms
>           Becky Burr, who was representing the US Government and
>           signing the first MoU with ICANN on 25 November 1998, cf.
>
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/icann-memorandum.htm,
>           and in the GA archives the participation of Joe Sims, who
>           was signatory to the same MoU on behalf of ICANN newly
>           created.
>
>   7. The DNSO archives shows a 29 months record of participation to
various
>      DNSO GA mailing lists, week by week, at
>      http://www.dnso.org/statistics/dnsostatistics.html
>      It starts with 526 different persons in January 2000. Currently
>      990 persons are subscribers, following debates on Domain Names
>      related issues in ICANN process.
>
>   8. The DNSO publishes monthly statistics of www.dnso.org usage at
>      http://www.dnso.org/webstats/
>
>   9. The current DNSO Secretariat has been chosen by the Names Council in
>      August 2001, subsequent to the determination by the NC of its needs,
>      the selection process and the selection criterias. The RFP of this
>      international bid is available at
>      http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/2001.RFP-DNSO.html.
>
>      The new DNSO Secretariat started to operate in October 2001, and is
>      still awaiting the signature of contract for services with ICANN,
>      acting as legal entity for the DNSO.
>
>      The DNSO Secretariat operates with a budget of $60,000 per year,
which
>      is approximately 2 orders of magnitude smaller than ICANN budget.
>      All documents, agendas, minutes and Mpeg3 recordings of the NC
>      meetings are available in archives. The comprehensive summary
>      of the NC meetings in 2002 is provided at
>      http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2002.NC-calendar.html
>
>
>
> Elisabeth Porteneuve, the first DNSO Secretary
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