[wg-review] RE: WG-Review Teleconference notes - rev 2

["Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Dear All,

These notes are intended to replace WG-Review Teleconference notes - rev 1. and incorporate amendments and additions highlighted in italic text.

Joanna 

 

 

WG-REVIEW TELECONFERENCE

 2001-01-23

Duration : 3 hours from 12:00 GMT to 15:00 GMT

Notes by Joanna Lane

(revised 2001-01-24)

 

1. WG-Review Discussion of Basic Agenda

1. Constituencies - including IDNH and lack of representation for Registries.
2. GA -
3. NC -
4. Workgroups
5. Standardized Procedures - publish consensus rules applicable to this wg-review, its agenda and timetable, immediately in advance of each topic being addressed, via the list and on website. Suggestions for increasing participation in teleconferences such as dialpad.com.
6. Outreach - topic to include multilingual issues
7. Funding -

1. Procedures - discussion of 1,2,3 as three separate topics, with draft motions prepared at the end of each topic. There will then be a quick review of all 3 to finalize motions, followed by voting. Volunteers will be needed for each topic to collate comments and summarize for report.
2. Polling Booth: - Increase participation by focusing input to only one booth. Joop's Booth is the most secure.
3. Presentation. Documents to be circulated as PDF attachments to reduce risk of virus. Roeland has capability to convert.
4. Comments on Theresa Swinehart TF document: - Satisfactory, but need to fill in blanks. Not everybody has found time to read document. Generally not in agreement with attempts to cut WG-Review exercise short. Need adequate time to present responses properly and not a valid exercise without translation/ outreach.
5. Use of Email in WG-Review process - medium dictates longer discussions and make teleconferences inevitable. Newserver is more efficient as it allows underlying organization of input by using sub-groups etc. It's a proven answer to the problems WG-Review is facing and software is free. Roeland to provide Elisabeth with tech information to be passed to DNSO.org system administrator with a request to install software. DNSO.net would support distribution. For people on the move, newsgroups work better - no need to be continuously online to access WebPages or use expensive mobile/long distance lines.
6. Multi-lingual:- Alta Vista offer one solution at http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
7. ccTLDs: - only limited strategic, not tactical discussion within context of funding and budgeting DNSO will be possible. Wg-Review needs to reduce risk of recommendations being nullified and has limited resources. May require WG of it's own. Members welcome to pose questions about ccTLDs through WG-Review list, for Peter to liase with other ccTLDs, but no cross posting by members to ccTLD list. ccTLDs need time to clarify their own position through Hawaii and closed meetings with ICANN, but are interested in preserving mechanism. This will be clarified in Melbourne.
8. DNSO incorporation - Refer Budget Task Force. URL: NC Budget Archives - message no 230. Some NC members support change from political entity to separate Delaware Corporation. Concerns raised include Antitrust issues, DNSO setting itself up as competitor to other route server organizations, also ICANN bylaws which state DNSO is not a separate entity. Elisabeth suggested this came from KPMG Audit, which gave advice to keep DNSO budget separate. Therefore, there was a need to open a bank account, collect funds from constituencies and sponsors, to pay secretariat/ administration and one person in charge of collecting information. Budget of less than USD $200,000 This issue would be added to WG-Review of funding.

         Further clarification provided by Elisabeth Porteneuve:-

Message 820, it is about DNSO PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT FUND LLC, not about DNSO incorporation. The DNSO legal status is written into ICANN bylaws, it cannot be modified easily, and nobody IMHO intends to do so. Please do not consider that making a hypothesis about Delaware is anything else than a working hypothesis.

9.      Motion to NC from WG-Review teleconference regarding "chair"

YJ Park, the current chair of WG-Review designated by NC, is going to ask NC to recognize newly elected WG-Review co-chair, as formal chair of WG-Review and YJ Park as liaison chair of WG-Review from NC which has been well-established practice in the DNSO.

10. Call for Teleconference Proposal. How to organize a better teleconference for the next time in order to be as inclusive as possible overcoming time difference and financial barrier if ever possible language barrier will be discussed in a small volunteer group and their recommendation from that group will be presented soon.

11. More specific comments on Review TF will be added in the next version of teleconference meeting minutes.

 

Present: Y.J.Park, Greg Burton (recused approximately 13.00 GMT), Danny Younger, Peter De Blanc, Roeland Meyer, Elisabeth Porteneuve (joined 13.30 GMT), Joanna Lane, Rob Juneau.