As thse of you present at Monterrey will remember, at the end
of the meeting we decided that we had two urgent tasks in front
of us:
* Completeing the application form
* Reaching out to those consituencies that were underrepresented
in our process, as well as to any other relevant organisation,
with the scope of broadening the socail base of the application
form finally submitted (this was called the "outreach program").
As you already know, in relation with the application form the
so-caled Transition Team has published a Timetable, wich includes
a new draft that will try to incorporate as many relevant elements
as possible form those having submitted proposals/comments (from
INTA draft byalws, but also form NSI, ORSC and all those having
participated in the discussion so far). This without prejudice of
the post-MTY draft, which expresses our current position and was
published last December.
As for the "outreach program", there were many thngs to do indeed.
And not all have been addressed yet. One of them was trying to
involve more entities from what we could call the "commercial and
TM related interests". These constituencies were clearly
underrepresented in our process. Even if we had approached them from
the very beginning, many of those organisations took what I had called
the "excentric apporach" (as ooposed to concentric; don'0t know whther
this makes sense in English): first, they weere discussing these issues
internally, then with "sister" organisations, then with other "commercial"
groups.... and only then felt they ready to jump into the public discussion.
But finally they were. Some among us /Theresa Swinehart, Davd Maher,
Ken Stubbs and myself. Later also Fay Howard) have been invited to a
series of telconferences to discuss how to articulate the discussion
and channel their participation. The result is the Washington DC meeting
on January 22.
In relation to such meeting the Transition Team has asked me to state the
follwoing:
* The meeting is not a DNSO-process (BCN/MTY or DNSO.org if you prefer)
meeting in the sense of the Barcelona or Monterrey ones. We consider it
as part of our so-called "outreach program", and a central part of it
at that.
* The meeting is organized in fact by a group of organisations (the
so-called "sponsoring organizations") namely the following:
Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX)
Council of European National Top level domain Registries (CENTR)
European ISP Association (EUROISPA)
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Internet Council of Registrars (CORE)
Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI)
Policy Oversight Committee (POC)
World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA)
* In this regard, our current Draft Application Form incorporating the
Barcelona and Monterrey consensus (known as Draft v7 or Draft 3) will
be presented at this meeting, as well as the planned new draft ("merged
draft", to be published next Monday)) in which the drafting team is
trying to harmonize as many elements as possible from our draft, INTA
draft bylaws, and all the comments received since v7 wass published
(see http://www.dnso.org, under "What's New").
Hope to see you all there.
Best regards,
Amadeu, on behalf of the Transition Team
PS: I was aksed to send this msg to the transition team maillist for, at
least, linguistic correction. Due to the usual time constraints, I have
not done so. But then all of you are now used to my particular version of
English, not to speak about my typos.... Oh, adn this also means that I
risk being "amended" ;-)
PS2: Please forward this to any list you deem appropriate