RE: [nc-str] Draft report version 7 - REQUEST FOR APPROVAL
Today,
on our election call, the NC had a brief discussion of the Lynn
proposal. I offered some comments, along with others and wanted to
summarize my comments here.
First,
as an individual representative of the BC, we haven't digested, nor analyzed the
proposal in complete detail, but will be doing that.
On the call, I noted that we should look at
Stuart's proposal as including an extensive summary of key areas where change is
needed. We should also look at his suggested approaches, but with a
critical eye to whether they are the best approaches, or not. In fact, the
NC has an obligation to critically examine. Some of the suggestions may be
satisfactory; others may present concerns; one or two may be highly
troublesome to the broad Internet community.
Be
that as it may, Stuart has done all of us a service by documenting areas of
critical success for ICANN, and putting out a set of proposals.
While
I do not know at this time exactly what the BC views will be on all areas, at
this time, I believe that we can examine the problems identified first and try
to come to concrete solutions which we could support as recommendations to the
NC to the Board, on those critical success areas which are of concern to all of
us.
I am
not comfortable with some of the approaches in the paper, and said so on the NC
call.
However, the perspective which I am trying to take is that we should
all look at this as a time to examine what and how to change to achieve a stable
ICANN, improve the funding stability and amount; achieve a stable
acceptable situation with the root servers; have a successful outcome in
the development of relationships which are mutually acceptable with the
ccTLDs [all sizes] and address "representation" in
an effective manner, and speed up and improve the policy development
process.
I will
note for the record of this group, that I was not comfortable that the
problem of ensuring more support from governments could be satisfactorily
addressed through Stuart's proposal and am not comfortable with changing
the role of governments in the technical coordination of the Internet.
This represents a very critical and significant change. At the same
time, I would like to better understand and help to develop ways to ensure that
governments are supportive of ICANN's mission and existence.
I
believe that most of our call Monday should be devoted to this topic.
Regards, Marilyn
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From: Philip Sheppard [mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:32 AM To: NC Structure Subject: [nc-str] Draft report version 7 - REQUEST FOR APPROVAL
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