Dear Protocol Council Members,
Please find attached for your consideration the revised minutes of the last
conference call (point 6).
Best regards,
Vlad
<<PSO-Minutes 14March.2002.txt>>
ICANN Protocol Standards Organization (PSO)
March 14, 2002 Teleconference
Reported by: Vladimir Androuchko, PSO-PC Secretary as of August 2001
PARTICIPANTS
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Geoff Huston / IETF Representative
Martin Duerst / W3C Representative
Richard Hill / ITU Representative
Azucena Hernandez / ETSI representative
Leslie Daigle / IETF Representative
Tapio Kaijanen / ETSI Representative
Brian Moore / ITU Representative
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Regrets:
Daniel Weitzner/ W3C Representative
Minutes
1. Protocol Council Members welcomed Geoff, the new representative of the IETF,
who replaced Steven.
2. Protocol Council Members analyzed the possible dates for the next
Protocol Supporting Organization General Assembly and possible procedures.
Brian reconfirmed the proposal to hold it in association with the ITU-T
Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group Meeting, which will take place in June 2002,
from 17.06.02 to 21.06.02 inclusive, in the ITU Headquarters, Geneva.
Brian proposed the 19th of June 2002.
The General Assembly could start from 16h00 CET and go until 18 or 19h00.
Brian suggested the following draft Agenda for the General Assembly:
1. Opening (Brian)
2. Introduction of activities of the PSO signatories
2.1. ITU-T (To be determined)
2.2. IETF (To be determined)
2.3. ETSI (To be determined)
2.4. W3C (To be determined)
3. PSO PC Status Report (Vlad)
4. Invited Presentations
4.1. Multilingual Internet Names (ITU-T)
4.2. Update on ICANN structure and developments (Vlad to invite Stuart Lynn)
4.3. Others? (Proposals to Vlad)
4.4.
5. Open discussions
6. Close.
Protocol Council Members endorsed this draft Agenda. Speakers will be identified
Protocol Council Members will further discuss the topics for the invited presentations.
The draft Agenda with all other details will be posted on the PSO website later on.
PSO secretary was tasked to draft the Status Report for GA and will circulate it for
comments among Protocol Council Members.
Martin asked about the possibility for the representatives of W3C to partcipate in the ITU-T TSAG Meeting.
Brian explained that TSAG Meeting will have different Working Parties, and ITU-T has the possibility to
offer an observer status, and proposed to the Protocol Council Members, interested in the activities of
TSAG to send an e-mail to the ITU-T representatives.
More detailed information on the TSAG Meetings is available at:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsag/index.html
3. The discussion on the handover of the PSO-PC Secretariat continued.
Martin asked to be provided with the information on the logistics and proceedures for the
handover of the PSO-PC Secretariat. PSO secretary will provide Martin with the necessary
information and the details will be worked off-line.
It was agreed in principle that the transfere of the PSO Secretariat functions will go to W3C.
4. Protocol Council discussed the procedures for the nomination to the ICANN Board.
ETSI will propose its candidate to the ICANN Board for the upcoming term.
Procedure for the Appointment of ICANN Board member:
Timeline
- June 1st 2002, Open the Call for Nominations from the SDOs and the public
at-large to the ICANN Board (for the term begining October 1st 2002)
- July 15th 2002, Closing date for nominations (to be forwarded to the PSO
Council)
- by September 16th 2002, PSO-PC to notify the ICANN Board of its
decision
- October 1st 2002, Begining of the term of the new ICANN Director
When the call for nominations is opened the candidates
shall be requested to provide their CVs to the PSO Council. The set of
criteria which will be used by the PSO Council for evaluating the
candidates' strengths (as used last year) is in Annex A below.
5. ICANN Reform was thoughtfully considered. ETSI submitted its proposal, which was discussed.
The consensus on the issue of the ICANN Reform was not found. It was agreed that each PSO
signatory organization will send it's own statement if any.
Also, as a matter of courtesy, each organization sending out its own statement/proposal will
circulate it's paper among other PSO-PC Members.
6. It was agreed the Geoff would draft an initial paper for discussion regarding the
ICANN board request for technical guidance on the number of TLDs.
7. The next PSO-PC conference call was scheduled for the 10th of April 2002,
12h30 GMT (14h30 CET).
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ANNEX A: Criteria for evaluating candidates CVs and analysing their
applications
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0. Background
a. Internet technologies
b. International standards or other international
development bodies
c. Other corporate Board of Directors
d. Government bodies (local/international)
1. Internet culture
a. Vision - ICANN & Internet
b. Develop appropriate partnerships with wide variety of
organisations
b1. Experience with wide variety of organizations
b2. Adaptable, in the light of ICANN's evolving role
(demonstrated breadth of experience)
2. Accountability - to Internet community and Society at large
a. Public accountability/openess (e.g. Board experience)
b. Legacy regulations (understanding/appreciate/awareness of
differences between and across countries)
c. Internationalisation (experience/demonstrated awareness)
3. ICANN as organisation
a. Business model - experience with business/financial plans
(theory and practice)
4. Other relevant technologies
a. Experience with telecom
b. Experience with convergence between IP world and
traditional telecom world
5. Complementarity (extent to which candidates' background/skills
complements the other two PSO-appointed ICANN Board Members).
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