DNSO General Assembly ICANN Structure

Work Items for the General Assembly

In a posting to the GA mailing list, Alexander Svensson outlined what valuable input the GA could deliver in the structure discussion:

• Thinking hard about the problems which the proposals on the table, including the Stuart Lynn proposal, the ALSC options, the NAIS recommendation, the ccTLD-SO efforts are trying or claiming to solve: Why do they need to be solved? Would the proposals be likely to solve the problem, do they raise new questions, can the problem be solved differently etc.?
• Thinking hard about the consequences of the proposals .   What effects would the proposals have -- realistic assessments and scenarios -- on the ICANN Board, the commercial, non-commercial and individual users, gTLD registrars, ccTLD and gTLD registries, ISPs etc., on policy development, on funding and staffing, on relationships with governments, on the danger of mission creep etc.
• Thinking hard about alternative solutions . I am not so sure we will all agree to  a Great Unified Solution either; perhaps a set of well-argued options and an order of preference will be much better input.

Names Council Work on Structure

• [council] Special NC meetings (March 14)
  
• [council] Response to case for reform - TOR; posted to the NC mailing list by Philip Sheppard. (March 14)
• [council] NC teleconf. 4 April 2002 MP3 recording 
• [council] First call conclusions v4 - ICANN functions (April 4)
  

Bookmarks

The most complete source on recent developments around ICANN is, of course, Bret Fausett's ICANN.blog .  Many of the links below have been taken from this source.

Recent Publications on ICANN Structure and Mission

• The Case for Reform, Stuart Lynn's reform proposal
• ICANN's comment forum on the proposal
  
• Structure chart , by Alexander Svensson.  Print this out before trying to understand the original document.

• Discussion fodder on ICANN structure. This is a discussion paper by Susan Crawford and David Johnson discussing various alternatives for ICANN reform; pre-Lynn-paper.  Courtesy of icann.BLOG. (February 20)
  
• icann.BLOG items on ICANN's Press Conference, and the Board Retreat (February 25)
  
• Preliminary comments by Alexander Svensson, posted to the General Assembly (February 25)
• ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Team, by former GA chairman Danny Younger (February 25)
  
• News Round-Up by Bret Fausett (February 26)
  
• An article by Susan Crawford and David Johnson discusses ICANN's future. (February 26)
• A post from the ICANN President to the Interesting People Mailing list (February 27)
  
• A cunning plan? - suspicions posted by David P. Farrar to the General Assembly (February 27)
• Names council discussions on the Reform Proposal.  [Audio recording.] (February 28)
  
• RIPE's comments on the proposal (March 1)
• NAIS posted a preliminary statement (March 1)
• Stuart Lynn gave a presentation at the APRICOT 2002 meeting in early March.  Scribe's notes are here; slides are here. (March 6)
• ICANN topic page on Reform, for the Accra Meeting (March 7)
• What ICANN Does - ICANN Staff Draft on ICANN's Mission (March 7; updated March 10)
  
• new.net comments (March 9)
  
• Japanese NGOs' statement (IcannWatch story, March 10)
• a draft resolution for presentation at the March 12 Names Council session.  Note that the resolution was not adopted by the Council. (March 11)
• Preliminary Minutes from the ICANN Board Meeting in Accra, including the text of the resolutions on the ALSC Report and the At Large Membership, and on the Evolution and Reform Committee under the chairmanship of Alejandro Pisanty. (March 14)
• A sketch of a structure with an at large membership that actually works on policy development. You may call this optimistic. (March 15)
• A personal view of Harald Alvestrand, IETF chair (March 17)
• Some more notes from Danny Younger  (March 18)
• Overcoming ICANN , by David J. Farber, Peter G. Neumann, and Lauren Weinstein (March 18)
• ICANN: The End of an Experiment; ICA Syndicate Intelligence Brief (March 22)
• A Proposal by Danny Younger, forwarded to the Evolution and Reform Commitee. (March 23)
• The Heathrow Declaration ; "an alternative ICANN reform proposal crafted by Tucows".   (March 26)
• Final Statement of NAIS (April 2)
• [council] DRAFT: Skeleton structure and split responsibilities by Alexander Svensson ( April 8)
• Policy-Making Options  (April 9)

Names Council Structure Task Force

The Names Council's Structure Task Force has been dealing with ICANN Structure within the DNSO.  Most of its work is from the time before the Lynn proposal was published.

• List Archives
• Final terms of reference
  
• Reports of Task Force activities posted by David Farrar to the GA list
• http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg04031.html (January 6)
• http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00585.html (January 17)
• Structure Task Force Drafts and Documents
• [nc-str] Discussion paper ALSC against criteria (November 30, 2001)
• [nc-str] V2 of ALSC discussion paper   (December 3, 2001)
• [nc-str] Draft report on ALSC v3 (January 8)
• [nc-str] Draft report on ALSC V 4 (January 16)
• [nc-str] Draft report on ALSC V 5 (January 17)
• [nc-str] Draft report on ALSC v6 (February 15)
• [nc-str] Draft report version 7 - REQUEST FOR APPROVAL (February 19)
• [nc-str] Summary of call (4 March) and action (March 5)
• [nc-str] Link to Structure TF NC Resolution (March 11)
  

At Large Study Committee

• At Large Sudy Committee home page
• Implementation Report (2002)
• Election guidelines  
• ALSC Final Report on At-Large Membership (November 5, 2001)

NGO and Academic ICANN Study (NAIS Project)

• NAIS home page
• Final Report (August 2001)
• response to the ALSC's proposal (October 31, 2001)
• Preliminary statement on the Lynn Proposal (not dated; late February/early March 2002)