As the Review Task Force chose not to include in its report many of the recommendations
made by the Review Working Group, such comments and recommendations will be cited
in this Forum; the following was proposed by the Chair of the Review Working Group
(and met with no opposition, only with requests for clarification of certain points).
Dear WG-Review members,
After reading through some of the comments here and
on the GA list, and considering the draft TF report, the WG-D preliminary report
and Kent Crispin's comments on the need for small, flexible working groups, I'd like
to submit the following text for adoption as part of the Working Group's report.
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If
the constituency structure of the DNSO remains unchanged, we urge that the ICANN
Board of Directors replace Article VI-B Section 4 with the following text:
(a)
The GA shall be an open forum for participation in the work of the DNSO. This work
includes but is not limited to work item proposal and development; discussion of
work items proposed by the Names Council; draft document preparation; research on
topics of interest to the DNSO; and recommendations of policies and procedures for
the internal use of the DNSO. Adopted reports or recommendations of the GA shall
be passed to the Names Council in a timely manner.
(b) The GA shall be open to
all who are willing to contribute effort to the work of the DNSO. Participants in
the GA should be individuals who have a knowledge of and an interest in issues pertaining
to the areas for which the DNSO has primary responsibility.
(c) Membership in the
GA shall consist of those individuals listed in the GA Voting Registry.
(d) Participants
in the GA shall nominate, pursuant to procedures adopted by the NC and approved by
the Board, persons to serve on the Board in those seats reserved for the DNSO.
(e)
Officers of the GA shall include a chair, a co-chair, and an ombudsman. Officers
of the GA shall be elected annually according to the voting procedures adopted by
the GA and approved by the NC.
(f) The Officers of the GA shall be members of the
Names Council.
(g) The ombudsman shall be responsible for investigating process
issues within the DNSO, including but not limited to conflicts involving the Names
Council as a whole. The ombudsman shall report directly to the ICANN Board of Directors.
(h)
Each constituency formed under Article VI-B Section 3 of these bylaws shall select
one member as the constituency observer to the GA. Each observer will be responsible
for informing their constituency of the GA's current activities on a timely basis.
(i)
The GA shall meet physically at least once a year, if possible in
conjunction
with regularly scheduled meetings of the Board. To the maximum extent practicable,
all meetings should be available for online attendance as well as physical attendance.
(j)
The costs of physical GA meetings shall be the responsibility of the DNSO, which
may levy an equitable, cost-based fee on GA attendees to recoup those costs. There
shall be no other fees required to participate in the GA. The costs of GA mailing
lists or other online mechanisms for performing the work of the GA shall be the responsibility
of the DNSO.
(k) The GA shall adopt it's internal procedures as it sees fit, so
long as they are fair, transparent, and consistent with these by-laws.
(l) Upon
application by no less than five members of the GA, the Chair of the GA may recognize
a Special Interest Group (SIG). Upon such recognition, a SIG shall have a mailing
list created by the Secretariat of the DNSO. Each SIG shall have a clearly
defined interest area, and shall produce regular reports for the GA's consideration
in that area. Each application shall contain a definition of the interest area; a
SIG name; and the SIG's
method for self-organization.