Jeff,
I apologize for not giving you a more prompt reply. I've had an
unusually large volume of e-mail messages over the last couple of weeks,
and am just sorting through some unread messages, which included yours.
If there is an urgent matter that needs to be addressed, feel free to
call us at 703-522-5055. We are fairly successful at returning
telephone calls within a 48 hour period.
Contributing to the work associated with forming the domain names
supporting organization is only a small part of my job, so I
unfortunately only have limited time to devote to the effort. You may
want to also direct any future questions towards the other eight
convening organizations, since this was a shared effort [see list of
convening organizations below]. You also raised questions about the
DNSO.ORG process, which should be directed to leaders of this effort.
I am happy to report that our meeting on Friday at George Washington
University was quite successful, with most of those participating in
this open meeting agreeing that differences among the various proposals
had been narrowed as a result. As you might imagine, organizing the
meeting took a lot of time and resources to pull off, but I think that
most would agree that it was a somewhat effective tool in bringing
various organizations and individuals together to make some progress.
We posted the invitation to this meeting on the IFWP as well as other
lists, and we were sorry not to see you there. We had many
opportunities for Q&A and statements from participants.
As far as the meeting on the 21st, I was happy to see that one of the
participants on the IFWP list had put together a very useful and
effective summary of the meeting, which has been posted to the list. I
also addressed many of the inquiries associated with the meeting on the
21st at Friday's meeting (see below):
"I also want to say that the convening organizations as well as other
organizations held a meeting yesterday afternoon for the purpose of
better structuring today's meeting, and using our limited time here in a
more organized and productive fashion. We explored the major points of
contention, and where there appear to be similarities among the
proposals that will be presented today. Our facilitator, Marc Chinoy,
will report later on this. Let me assure everyone that no policy
decisions were made. We finalized today's agenda and everyone is looking
forward to hearing from all of you today. Another question that has come
up is how did the organizations become involved with each other as
conveners of today's meeting? The answer is that various groups had
begun talking with each other - something
that I view as a positive development - and these groups came together
thinking that it was a good idea to hold today's open meeting and hear
as many viewpoints as possible (and I might add, do all the hard
work in actually making it happen!)."
We wholeheartedly agree with the goals of an open, democratic and
transparent domain names supporting organization, and hope that we are
contributing in a small way to that end result.
Jon Englund
List of Convening Organizations:
Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX)
Council of European National Top level domain Registries (CENTR)
European ISP Association (EUROISPA)
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Internet Council of Registrars (CORE)
Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI)
Policy Oversight Committee (POC)
World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA)
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> Subject: Re: [ifwp] Esther's Remarks
>
> Jon and all,
>
> � I read with great interest and listened to Esther Dysons remarks.� I
> am
> quite curious as to why on January 15th when I am others of other
> organizations
> sent E-Mails to you and Pete, regarding the January 21st CLOSED
> meeting
> we were not invited nor did we receive any reply.� As we (INEGroup)
> represent a very large number of stakeholders we would have thought
> as a common courtesy that we would have received some sort of reply.
> This lack of action on the part of yourself and the DNSO.ORG bunch,
> seems purposefully to exclude a large number of "Interested Parties"
> from
> active participation in the event in Washington currently.
>
> � This however has followed the discussions that have been taking
> place
> over the past several month with respect to the DNSO.ORG on the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list and the CLOSED lists of the DNSO.ORG
> list
> most specifically the "Participants List" in which there has been so
> much
> controversy with respect to the ITU and Robert Shaw added some
> specific
> ICANN individuals that did not attend the supposedly required meeting
> at
> Monterey and Barcelona.� We are curious as to how this is consistent
> with the DNSO.ORG's "Outreach Program"....
>
> � We can therefore only logically conclude that the DNSO.ORG is not
> acting
> in the best interest of the Stakeholder community and is preparing a
> proposal to the ICANN that does not meet the requirements of the White
>
> Paper..
>
> Comments?
>
> Jon Englund wrote:
>
> >From yesterday's domain names meeting are available on
> realvideo on the
> WITSA web site at http://www.witsa.org/press/domain.htm
>
> Jon Englund
>
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