Re: [wg-review] DNDEF, GA, & NC

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:31:57PM -0800, Eric Dierker wrote:

> After reading this which is found on the Official site, it is
> completely illogical to proclaim the assembly to be an activity.

Not so.  I agree that my analogy of the "general assembly" of a school a
bit to simplistic, but it was only intended as an analogy for
explanatory purposes, to get people to think of it in a different way.  
The actual model for the GA was the IETF.  The IETF meets three times a 
year; 


> You
> would constantly be saying the activity of the activity. 

No, you would be saying "the characteristics of the activity".  Let me
try another word that describes an activity.  Let's just call the GA the
"DNSO General Meetings", and see how it fits:

    THE DNSO  General Meetings
 
    (a) The DNSO General Meetings shall be an open forum for
    participation in the work of the DNSO, and open to all who are
    willing to contribute effort to the work of the DNSO.  The
    participants in the DNSO General Meetings should be individuals who
    have a knowledge of and an interest in issues pertaining to the
    areas for which the DNSO has primary responsibility, and who are
    willing to contribute time, effort and expertise to the work of the
    DNSO, including work item proposal and development, discussion of
    work items, draft document preparation, and participation in
    research and drafting committees and working groups. 
 
    (b) The DNSO General Meetings shall meet at least once a
    year, if possible in conjunction with regularly scheduled meetings
    of the ICANN Board.  To the maximum extent practicable, all meetings
    should be available for online attendance as well as physical
    attendance. 
 
    (c) The costs of DNSO General Meetings shall be the responsibility
    of the DNSO, which may levy an equitable, cost-based fee on DNSO
    Revival Meeting attendees to recoup those costs.  There shall be no
    other fees required to participate in the DNSO Revival Meetings. 
 
    (d) The DNSO General Meetings shall nominate, pursuant to procedures
    adopted by the NC and approved by the ICANN Board, persons to serve
    on the Board in those seats reserved for the DNSO. 

The wording is a little awkward in places due to the slightly different
usage patterns for "meetings" vs "assembly", but it is perfectly
understandable, and with only a bit of cosmetic touchup it would be 
perfectly readable and clear.

In general, if you think of the GA as more of an activity than as a
body, then the bylaws make a great deal more sense.  However, note that
there is an ambiguity in both the words "assembly" and "meeting".  We
can say "the participants in the meeting decided X", or we can say "the
meeting decided X"; we can say "the participants in the assembly decided
X" or "the assembly decided X".  A meeting is an activity; it also is a 
body of people; recurring meetings are an activity as well, but the 
"body" is different from time to time.

Incidentally, this is also the character of the IETF -- the IETF is a 
set of activities with varying membership; the GA was modeled partially 
on the IETF.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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