DNSO APPLICATION TIMETABLE
Following on to the meetings held previously (see key dates below), and
in order to ensure that all interested parties have a common understanding
of the events leading up to the submission of a DNSO Application to the
ICANN Board of Directors on the 5th of February 1999, we are publishing
the following timetable for subsequent drafts and their related comment
periods.
We and other stakeholders are seeking to ensure integration of other
proposals (e.g. the 'INTA' proposal, etc.) with the DNSO proposal.
We will also review and address concerns of other stakeholders and to
this end we again invite all interested parties to participate (the more
actively the better) in helping to prepare an application. In addition,
we intend to actively seek out other relevant parties.
In order to achieve the objective of a representative, open and
transparent process in drafting the DNSO application, the discussions
surrounding the application have been, and will continue to be open and
evolutionary, and we continue to seek comments from all interested
parties. You are therefore encouraged to submit comments, NOW, for the
current draft dated 16 December, 1998. Your comments should be submitted
to: <proposals@dnso.org>. Note: For administration reasons any comments
submitted after the 5th of January, 1999 will most probably not be treated
until the next and final 'draft'. For purposes of transparency, and in
accordance with standard procedures, all comments received will be posted
on the DNSO web site (http://www.dnso.org), with links to appropriate sites.
The next and penultimate iteration of the Application will be published
on January 12th, 1999 and will take into account all comments and
discussions received to date. In addition, we will take all other
proposals into account and expect to be able to address satisfactorily any
comments/concerns allowing us to incorporate these proposals into our
application. This date has been set in order to allow for all substantive
comments to be addressed in advance of various meetings being held in
January, including the meeting planned for January 22nd in Washington DC.
We have a lot to achieve in advance of these meetings to ensure that we
have an application that incorporates all relevant and necessary points.
Additional meetings are being arranged specifically to seek out other
stakeholder points of view. The Period for Comments on this final draft
will close on the 26th of January to allow time for the Application to be
finalized and submitted.
We would like as broad a participation as possible and therefore we
encourage you to send in your comments NOW!
KEY DATES:
1st DRAFT APPLICATION CIRCULATED SEPTEMBER 23, 1998
BARCELONA MEETING OCTOBER 16-18, 1998
BARCELONA DRAFT PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 7, 1998
MONTERREY MEETING NOVEMBER 15-17, 1998
MONTERREY DRAFT PUBLISHED DECEMBER 16, 1998
COMMENT PERIOD FOR CURRENT DRAFT CLOSES JANUARY 5, 1999
PENULTIMATE DRAFT PUBLISHED JANUARY 12, 1999
COMMENT PERIOD CLOSES JANUARY 26, 1999
APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO ICANN FEBRUARY 5, 1999
[IMPORTANT NOTE. The <proposals@dnso.org> mail address will not be
operational until Monday 4, 12:00 GMT]
On behalf of the DNSO process "Transition Team"
http://www.dnso.org
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