Fred Hardie and all, In addition to Fred's remarks and/or comments, I would like to add that I have some serious concerns that the PSO does not contain a General Assembly or membership as part of it's structure. This seems to me to be both relevant and necessary for the PSO to consider... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fred, > In the message below, you note two different types > of representation: members of the Protocol Council and Directors > of the ICANN Board. Do you believe that the IAB should make > interim selections for both types of representation, or is that > selection specific to ICANN's board? > regards, > Ted Hardie > > > > > The Poisson Working Group, in discussion Wednesday morning, advised me to > > sign the Memorandum of Understanding among ICANN, IETF, ETSI, ITU-T, and > > W3C, forming the initial PSO. We did that during the plenary meeting > > Wednesday evening, and afterwards had a very informal initial discussion > > among the leaders of those parties about how to proceed from here. > > > > It is now incumbent on the IETF to supply two members to the Protocol > > Council and nominate one or more potential Directors of the ICANN Board to > > come from the PSO. The near term objective is to have PSO representation on > > ICANN's board by November. > > > > For the long term, it would be best for Poisson to decide how that should > > be done - there are good arguments for having the nominating committee do > > that job; there are also good arguments (RFC 1601 section 2(e)) for having > > the IAB make those choices. In the short term, I believe and request that > > the IAB should make interim selections, to stand until that discussion and > > process has taken its course. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Fred Baker | 519 Lado Drive > > IETF Chair | Santa Barbara, California 93111 > > | +1 (805) 886-3873 > > Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208