Great,
Javier
At 01:56 31/08/98 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>Here's a draft. I incorporated some text from Mark's edit of Javier's
>draft, but deleted a lot of the specifics. I hope you guys will
>forgive me.
>
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>
>Statement by the gTLD-MoU Policy Advisory Body concerning the IANA
>draft Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation:
>
> The gTLD-MoU Policy Advisory Body welcomes the announcement by IANA
> of the third draft of the draft Bylaws and Articles of
> Incorporation, and endorses them as the basis for creation of the
> new IANA.
>
> PAB further wishes to express its appreciaton for the effort
> undertaken by IANA to act as a "fair broker" for consensus among
> stakeholders. It is clear to all objective parties that no single
> group currently represents the consensus of all stakeholders in the
> Internet. And, while IANA itself is not immune from bias, three
> characteristics make it uniquely suited to act as a "fair
> broker": 1) it has a long and respected history that gives ample
> proof of its ability to act in a fair and impartial manner, 2) no
> other entity knows as much about the operational requirements for
> the new IANA, and 3) no other entity has spent more time in
> intelligent consideration of the requirements for the new IANA.
>
> One of the stakeholder forums is the International Forum for the
> White Paper (IFWP). This process has, for the last two months,
> brought together a significant number of stakeholders of the
> Internet from around the world, and has facilitated discussion of
> some of the most important issues regarding the redesign of IANA.
>
> As suggested by Tamar Frankel, facilitator of the IFWP process,
> consensus search has been carried out in small break-out sessions,
> but generally, consensus has not been pursued in the plenary
> sessions of this meetings. This allows talk about work-in-progress,
> without prejudicing results for further meetings, but does not provide
> a mechanism for aggregating consenus.
>
> However, many of the results of the IFWP do seem to reflect clear
> consensus of the Internet Community, and we believe they have been
> correctly understood by IANA and incorporated in the Third Iteration
> of the Bylaws.
>
> An important area for which there has been wide agreement was that
> there be some kind of membership organization associated with the
> new IANA, with at least some directors elected from a general
> membership. Some camps insist that the membership should be of
> individuals only; others insist that only organizational membership
> be allowed.
>
> The draft Bylaws defer implementation of such a structure, citing
> several significant difficulties with various implementations of a
> membership organization. It is also worth noting that the
> controversies alluded to above would have to be resolved, and IANA
> feels (rightly, we believe) that these issues simply cannot be
> resolved in a time frame consistent with what is required.
>
> PAB is uniquely suited to comment on this matter. It is, in fact,
> an open membership organization. It has no financial requirements
> for membership, such as dues or membership fees. Nominally, only
> legal constituted organizations can be members, but, because there
> is no financial requirement, very small organizations, such as sole
> proprietorship businesses, have joined. These are for all
> practical purposes, individual memberships.
>
> PAB has little real power, and has not existed for even a year, yet
> it has already experienced what can fairly be called an unsuccessful
> takeover attempt. This illustrates without a doubt that IANA's
> concerns are well founded. An open membership organization with
> significant power would be a much jucier target than PAB, and
> implementation of such an organization must proceed very cautiously.
>
> That being said, the very existence of PAB is predicated on the
> worth of membership organizations.
> We note that the proposed structure of IANA includes
> half the directors being selected through Support Organizations,
> with the remaining half selected at large through some as yet
> undetermined process. If that process were some sort of election
> conducted by a carefully constructed member organization, the model
> would be very close to the PAB/POC model. We encourage IANA and the
> interim board to consider this very seriously, and we look forward
> to working with them on this matter.
>
>--
>Kent Crispin, PAB Chair "No reason to get excited",
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