Subject: GA-DIGEST V1 #209
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GA-DIGEST         Wednesday, December 27 2000         Volume 01 : Number 209

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 01:12:48 -0500
From: Joe Baptista <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] watch what you eat this xmas

http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/12/20/child1220_01.html

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:43:52 +0100
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] [ADMIN] Suspension of Joe Baptista

Joe Baptista, who has been suspended until December 16 this year, has 
posted irrelevant material to the list.

He is now suspended for 32 weeks - until August 2, 2001.

A peaceful holiday season to all of you who have holidays.
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:55:01 +0100 (MET)
From: DNSO Secretariat <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] Fwd: Names Council Press Release

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From [email-masked] Thu Dec 21 15:39 MET 2000
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
From: "Philip Sheppard" <[email-masked]>
To: "DNSO Council \(Public archive\)" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [council] Press release
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:35:46 +0100

The attached press release has been sent today (21 December  2000 CET
15.30) to ICANN and ICANN's media consultant for immediate
distribution. The release was drafted by Philip Sheppard, amended by 
Y J Park  and approved on behalf of the NC by NC chair Ken Stubbs.

Philip Sheppard

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PRESS RELEASE

NAMES COUNCIL RENEWS CALL FOR WIDE CONSULTATION ON CONSENSUS BUILDING

December 21, 2000 - To get additional input into a review of its own
consensus-building procedures, the Names Council of the Domain Name
Supporting Organization (DNSO) at its December 19 meeting established a
Review Working Group charged with actively seeking input from the
widest possible set of Internet stakeholders.

The new working group, chaired by Names Council member Y J Park, is
established immediately and seeks to complete its work by January 15th
2001. In common with previous DNSO work groups, the group is open to
anyone to participate and operates by e-mail. Interested parties are
encouraged to sign-up now by sending an email to [email-masked]
with the words subscribe wg-review in the body of the message.

The working group will provide additional answers to an extensive
questionnaire developed by a task force of Names Council members with a
mandate to improve the decision-making process of the Names Council by
more effective outreach.  The task force has already made two calls for
input to its questionnaire from DNSO constituencies and its general
assembly. This final call is intended to improve the quality and
quantity of input as a function of the interactive nature of a DNSO
working group.

BACKGROUND

ABOUT DNSO

The Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) is one of three
organizations within ICANN, known as "Supporting Organizations" or
"SOs," that develop and recommend policies concerning the Internet's
technical management within their areas of expertise. It deals with
policies concerning the domain name system.  The Names Council consists
of representatives from each of the DNSO's seven constituency groups
and is responsible for the management of the consensus-building process
of the DNSO.

ABOUT ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a
technical coordination body for the Internet. Created in October 1998
by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, technical, academic,
and user communities, ICANN is assuming responsibility for a set of
technical functions previously performed under U.S. government contract
by IANA <<http://www.iana.org/> and other groups.

Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of the following
identifiers that must be globally unique for the Internet to function:

    Internet domain names
    IP address numbers
    protocol parameter and port numbers

In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of the Internet's 
root server system.

As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is dedicated to
preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting
competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet
communities; and to developing policy through private-sector,
bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the participation of
any interested Internet user, business, or organization.

CONTACT

Pam Brewster
415-902-1158
[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 19:30:52 +0100
From: "Roberto Gaetano" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] Season greetings from the Chair

Hi.

Happy holidays to everybody.
Season greetings to all those who have something to party about: Christmas 
for Christians, the end of Ramadan for Moslems, New Year for those on the 
Western Calendar.... and a nice time to everybody.

I am partly off mail, and I will still be so in the next week.
As soon as the holiday season will be over, we will have a lot of things to 
take care of, like:

* the GA-Chair election method
I will remind the ICANN Board of the petition from the GA (physical meeting) 
to reconsider the election method in the Bylaws.
At the same time, it will be good to set up a formal vote to endorse this 
petition - I think it may give it more weight.

* GA-Chair election
as soon as the method is agreed upon.

* DNSO Review
A WG has been created on this subject. Due to the very strict deadline 
(2000-01-15), we may want to organize our contribution soon. Personally, I 
believe that the deadline does not make a lot of sense: with the holidays in 
between, it will give only few working days to come to conclusions. The 
question arises: why does it take six months to set up a WG, that must 
produce results in less than four weeks? There might be an answer.

* Individual Constituency
The eternal question: how to proceed in order to have *real* progress?

* Anything else?

See you in the next millennium (julian calendar)

Regards
Roberto

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