Re: DNSO Important update: The "Merged" Draft

Jay Fenello (Jay@Iperdome.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:27:06 -0500

At 1/18/99, 06:56 PM, Amadeu Abril i Abril wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Below you will find a "nearly final" draft of the announced (and hopefull
>awaited) DNSO "Merged Draft" App Form/Bylaws, due....today ;-)
>
>As you will remember form earlier announcments form the Tranisition Team, this
>is an attempt form the Drafting team to "merge" or at least approximate to
>some extent our DNSO App Form (the post-MTY Draft), the INTA Draft Bylaws, the
>ORSC Draft and comments submitted by NSI, ICC and others (plz see all these
>documents, including Antony Van Couvering's summary of comments submitted
>though the "discuss" list at http://www.dnso.org, under "Documents" & "Comments"))
>
>"To some extent", indeed. Wriiyng a "consensus"-gathering draft form all these
>materials would have been impossible, s they are diverse when not incompatible
>in many repsects (but not in _that_ many aspects!). It is a "compromise", or a
>search of such compromise.
>
>Please note that this is still a "nearly final" draft. Some minor changes can
>be still introduced at this stage.
>
>More importantly, we expect this docuemnt to be a fruitful basis for
>discussion both in mailing lists and at the Washington DC meeting next
>Friday. And, above all, we hope it is a useful step towards the next, and
>hoepfully final, version of the DNSO Applciation Form.
>
>Stop laugthing at my tyops and enjoy reading it. Comments are not also
>welcome, but anziously awaited.

Hello Amadeu,

I've only read up to the point clipped below,
but if the intro is any indication, this is
going to be a very impressive document.

My compliments to the drafting team.

>Best regards,
>
>Amadeu
>
>************
>
>General comment:
>
>This draft represents an uneasy compromise between two very
>different documents:
>
> - A very precise set of bylaws designed to meet the
> requirements of corporate law.
>
> - A charter for a unique Internet-based international
> organization, with no legal precedent.
>
>Each kind of document comes from a particular world-view. Individuals
>coming primarily from one or the other of these world-views may have
>trouble accepting the validity of the contrary view.
>
>However, it is very important that we produce something that
>satisfies both of these world-views, and we should concentrate on the
>the positive aspects of each.
>
>The DNSO must be, and will be, a truly international organization.
>
>Running such an organization using standard corporate forms will be
>very expensive. The money spent in organizing efforts to date is in
>the millions of dollars. If the DNSO continues in that mold the
>result will be a massive organization that, as Roberto Gaetano put
>it, will effectively be a permanent subsidy to the travel industry.
>
>Much of that time and money spent in organizing has been volunteered,
>in the Internet tradition, by many individuals and organizations. It
>is the belief of many that the DNSO must leverage such volunteer
>participation, and continue that tradition. And, as NSI has
>indicated in their comments, the Internet has a tradition of
>consensus processes, rather than the hard-edged decision making more

>common in a legal or business context.
>
>However, the DNSO also needs the precision, clarity, and
>accountability that a legal/business perspective can bring.
>
>That is the spirit in which this document is presented. We wish to
>create an organization that will be a natural outgrowth of the
>Internet traditions of cooperation and consensus that were embodied
>in the old IANA, while at the same time providing a legally
>robust and accountable framework within which it can work.
>
>Thank you
>
>The DNSO Drafting Team

Jay.