exerpt:
ICANN's top priority must be completing the work necessary to put in place
an elected board of directors on
a timely basis. Specifically, it must do everything within its power
to establish the Supporting Organizations,
and ensure the election of nine board members by those Organizations
to begin serving at the November 1999
Board Meeting. And it must work diligently to complete the process for
electing at-large directors by June
2000. (Page 11)
ICANN should eliminate the $1 per-year per domain name registration
user fee. Although the user fee may be
determined to be an appropriate method for funding ICANN's activities,
it has become controversial, and we
believe a permanent financing method should not be adopted until after
the nine elected members are added to
the ICANN Board in November. That will ensure that this important
decision is made in accordance with the
representative, bottom-up process called for in the White Paper. In
the meanwhile, we will work with ICANN
and the entire Internet community, to the extent permitted by law, to
obtain interim resources for ICANN.
(Page 11)
ICANN should immediately open its board meetings to the public.
Transparency is critical to establishing trust
in decision making. And trust is essential for ICANN's ultimate
success. As a general matter, ICANN has
undertaken the vast majority of its work in an open and transparent
manner. The final step of opening the
board meetings is critical to establishing trust in ICANN. (Page 12)
By all means, read the whole letter.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
the IDNO Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org
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