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Following on to the meetings held previously (see key dates
below), and in order to ensure that all interested parties have a common
understanding of the events leading up to the submission of a DNSO Application
to the ICANN Board of Directors on the 5th of February 1999, we are publishing
the following timetable for subsequent drafts and their related comment
periods.
We and other stakeholders are seeking to ensure integration of other
proposals (e.g. the 'INTA' proposal, etc.) with the DNSO proposal.
We will also review and address concerns of other stakeholders and to this
end we again invite all interested parties to participate (the more actively
the better) in helping to prepare an application. In addition, we
intend to actively seek out other relevant parties.
In order to achieve the objective of a representative, open and transparent
process in drafting the DNSO application, the discussions surrounding the
application have been, and will continue to be open and evolutionary, and
we continue to seek comments from all interested parties. You are therefore
encouraged to submit comments, NOW, for the current
draft dated 16 December, 1998. Your comments should be submitted
to: <proposals@dnso.org>.
Note: For administration reasons any comments submitted after the 5th
of January, 1999 will most probably not be treated until the next and final
'draft'. For purposes of transparency, and in accordance with standard
procedures, all comments received will be posted on the DNSO web site (http://www.dnso.org),
with links to appropriate sites.
The next and penultimate iteration of the Application will be published
on January 12th, 1999 and will take into account all comments and discussions
received to date. In addition, we will take all other proposals into
account and expect to be able to address satisfactorily any comments/concerns
allowing us to incorporate these proposals into our
application. This date has been set in order to allow for all
substantive comments to be addressed in advance of various meetings being
held in January, including the meeting planned for January 22nd in Washington
DC. We have a lot to achieve in advance of these meetings to ensure that
we have an application that incorporates all relevant and necessary points.
Additional meetings are being arranged specifically to seek out other
stakeholder points of view. The Period for Comments on this final
draft will close on the 26th of January to allow time for the Application
to be finalized and submitted.
We would like as broad a participation as possible and therefore we
encourage you to send in your comments NOW!
| KEY DATES: |
| 1st DRAFT APPLICATION CIRCULATED |
SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 |
| BARCELONA MEETING |
OCTOBER 16-18, 1998 |
| BARCELONA DRAFT PUBLISHED |
NOVEMBER 7, 1998 |
| MONTERREY MEETING |
NOVEMBER 15-17, 1998 |
| MONTERREY DRAFT PUBLISHED |
DECEMBER 16, 1998 |
| COMMENT PERIOD FOR CURRENT DRAFT CLOSES |
JANUARY 5, 1999 |
| PENULTIMATE DRAFT PUBLISHED |
JANUARY 12, 1999 |
| COMMENT PERIOD CLOSES |
JANUARY 26, 1999 |
| APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO ICANN |
FEBRUARY 5, 1999 |
[IMPORTANT NOTE. The <proposals@dnso.org>
mail address will not be operational until Monday 4, 12:00 GMT]
On behalf of the DNSO process "Transition Team" at http://www.dnso.org |
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