[wg-review] GA, DNSO, NC, ALM & STRUCTURE

[Eric Dierker <ERIC@HI-TEK.COM>]

Fellow Netizens;

I have tried to analyze the current structure and have found there to be
a
tricotomy of interests so severe that only major reconstruction can
provide any
remedy.

Fixing the structure of ICANN and the DNSO and AT LARGE MEMBERSHIP based
on it's
history is like telling a country which has been in civil war since its
inception to build on that history.  This is very much like the very sad
Bosnia
situation.  We must only learn from the past not to repeat it's
mistakes. The
ancient Greeks said that the future will sneak up on us from behind and
that the
past is what is in front of us. We must resist this notion and look only
to the
current and the future.
The similarity with Bosnia is not only in its past but in it's current
condition
and it's future. Because they could not resolve the differences stemming
from
the past, they now have outside forces intervening and controlling their

governance.

Drastic conditions call for drastic remedies however what I suggest here
is not
so drastic but will allow for this body to continue in it's path.

Implementation is perhaps the hardest part but I see three viable
although all
unpleasant methods of accomplishing the task. Direct vote and immediate
implementation by the BoD. Court intervention and supervised
implementation with
an action such as has been suggested (this would also clear up the issue
of who
owns ICANN and is not as painful as it sounds, often people go to court
with the
notion of asking them to help clear up a problem). Use the Senate and
DOC to
force the implementation. Any one single Board member can accomplish any
of
these methods by taking firm action.

There is nothing wrong with the CAG joining in these proposals, along
with the
ccTLDs.  It is only right and fair that they demand that the USG clean
up this
mess which they helped, albeit a prior administration, create.  If
actions such
as outlined here are not implemented they should act independently and
together
to put an end to the "American Joke".

The restructuring should work like this with these three distinct
operating
groups. Each to be full time continuously operating.

Each to have a full time chair to serve at one year intervals to be
elected
after nominations at the annual meeting. Also a corresponding Alternate
chair.
The elections and the nominations should be completely internal. The
groups
should be bottom-up and make recommendations to whomever they see fit.
There
should be a protocol established to demand that recommendations be
addressed by
the recipient division within ICANN. Each group should be given three
full time
staff positions, Secretary, Web and Communications master, and clerk.
Each group
should be given complete access to telecommunication centers as
described in
MHSC's addendum to the TF review report.

At Large Membership with a goal of maintaining no less than 75,000
members.

General Assembly, membership as currently composed and designed for
change.

IDNO a constituency group of owners of names or color of title or
authority.

Original membership in these groups should be very open and the goal of
determining proper filtering and identification to be accomplished
within 6
months using a uniform method applying the differing criteria.

The first tasks of these groups other than as outlined above shall be
the
defining of essential terms, words and expressions.  This shall be
accomplished
by open work groups within each group.  Each group to issue a final
report to
their chairman, by no later than July 1, 2001 The three chairman and
three
alternates to provide reasonable definitions to be voted on by all three
groups
members as a whole and adopted and published, No later than October 1,
2001. The
Second to put in place the method of establishing evolving
constituencies. (we
have changed the term fluid to evolving, as some will become extinct)

The Names Council shall be reconfigured to have one council member per
constituency. Constituencies to be formed on a liberal basis in a format
in
align with that submitted by Dassa. (final form to be determined by
internal
procedures and voting in the GA & ALM )*  The GA shall have three
members on the
names council. The names council shall have it's Chair and Co-Chair
elected by
the Constituencies and the GA as a Whole.

These would be implemented simultaneously with the development of a
collegiate
certification and education program.  Using both an Art approach and a
Science
approach and integrating the two. Human communications, management,
government,
politics, history on the one hand and Technical Sciences on the other.

I would request input both on and off list as I intend to send this on
to others
outside this list.  I have learned that in the politics involved here
timing is
very important especially with hearings and meetings coming up.

This is in no way intended as an indictment for in the last 200 hours of

research I can not find where to put the blame, but only the conspicuous
absence
of a leader which may have made ICANN function like it should.

*note we are changing the MAL to ALM as in Alms for the poor.



"Babybows.com" wrote:

> Eric Dierker writes:  "it is completely illogical to proclaim the
assembly
> to be an activity".  I am willing to concede that perhaps Eric is
right, but
> a "body" whose only defined function is to "nominate" is not much of a

> "body".  Further, a "body" that cannot even designate its own Chair
has too
> little authority.  I value the collective wisdom of the GA.  I believe
it
> deserves greater authority than it currently enjoys, and I believe
that the
> GA may be the best tool to properly represent the interests of the
Public in
> the DNSO.   To that end, I wish to see it represented on the Names
Council.
> Please pardon my semantic lapse.
>
No please pardon me for being so rude as to even mention it.
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