RE: [nc-budget] Budget committee meeting Dec 19- agenda -minutes

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

Roger,

My recollection agree with yours with regard to language,
English and French. My memory and notes indicate the following
with regard to 4c):

When we discussed about IP document over the Budget call on 19 Dec,
there were two items: (1) the content of the dnso.org website,
which is the collection of various authors, each of them keeping
individual IP rights to his/her copy, and which has importance
as history and record of DNSO work and must be protected as such;
(2) the IP rights attached to the voting software written by myself.

The first item (1) is not difficult: the dnso.org website as today
is copied completely to various places, including ICANN, as indicated
in logs. The custodianship over time is more difficult from
liability point of view and from long term committment,
but it is ICANN duty, very much welcome to help the DNSO side efforts.

With regards to the item (2), both you and myself, we summarized
US and French proposals presented last falls to the Budget Committee,
and we agreed that the spirit of both is very close. The main
difference being unlimited vs renew periodically, which is no
major problem.

I asked then, as French citizen and not a lawyer, to have the contract
concerning the IP righst to my software written under French law,
and it was accepted. We were not discussing about translation
to French - it may be in English - but about the law.

The Budget Committee asked then to have unlimited rights to voting
software for the DNSO/NC needs, and accepted my request for
IP rights under French law.

IMHO the text:
-that the above agreement be drawn up in French as well.
should read:
-that the above agreement be drawn up under French law.

Kind regards,
Elisabeth


----Original Message ----
From owner-nc-budget@dnso.org Wed Jan 16 20:30 MET 2002
Message-ID: <3CD14E451751BD42BA48AAA50B07BAD6013C93B0@vsvapostal3.bkup6>
From: "Cochetti, Roger" <RCochetti@verisign.com>
To: "'DNSO Secretariat'" <DNSO.secretariat@dnso.org>, nc-budget@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [nc-budget] Budget committee meeting Dec 19- agenda -minutes
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:35:26 -0500

I need to comment on one passage of these minutes:

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Agenda Item 4: Administrative matters
a) Service contract with Glen de St Géry
The budget committee agreed that 2 contracts were persuasive as it permits
both parties to be addressed separately and gives more flexibility
Roger proposed a motion
1. There is a preference for 2 contracts
2. AFNIC to coordinate fully with Glen, accept guidance, except in those
areas that would jeopardize matters at a technical level for AFNIC.

b) Payments previously authorized
These were approved

c) AFNIC intellectual property rights.
The documentation drawn up does not deprive Elisabeth or AFNIC of ownership
of software it deals with usage rights.
It was agreed that the principal difference was 2 different IPs:
the voting software
the content posted on the website
To be consistent with normal practice, the budget committee recommends the
statements following:
-that the DNSO/NC have long-term, unrestricted rights to use the software
-that the above agreement be drawn up in French as well.
-that ICANN as the legal agent, acting on behalf of the DNSO has the right
to the content on the website.

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Regarding 4 c), I have no record or recollection that we agreed that the
contracts would be written and executed in English and French.  My notes
indicate that we did not address the language of the contract (s), which
would imply that the standard ICANN/DNSO approach to use English as its
working language was intended.

Thus, unless anyone has a better recollection than do I, the third bullet
under 4 c) should be deleted.

 

Roger Cochetti,
Chair 
Names Council Budget Committee 




Roger J. Cochetti
Senior Vice President & Chief Policy Officer
VeriSign
rcochetti@verisign.com
202-973-6600


-----Original Message-----
From: DNSO Secretariat [mailto:DNSO.secretariat@dnso.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 8:10 AM
To: nc-budget@dnso.org
Subject: [nc-budget] Budget committee meeting Dec 19- agenda -minutes


[To: Budget committee nc-budget@dnso.org]

Please find the agenda and minutes of the meeting at these urls:

http://dnso.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20011219.NCbudget-agenda.html
http://dnso.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20011219.NCbudget-minutes.html

They are very short minutes and please feel free to add comments and
changes.
A copy will go to Louis Touton.

DNSO Secretariat