It's been posted -- Boston Working Group

Dear ccTLD members,

Here is the URL of the outcome of our meeting in Boston on Saturday last.

My regards,

PAtrick, .nz

-----Original Message-----
From:	Karl Auerbach [SMTP:karl at cavebear.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, September 23, 1998 8:50 AM
To:	dc at mama-tech.com; Ellen Rony; Eric Weisberg; Jorge Contreras; Mikki Barry; 
Milton Mueller; Patrick O'Brien; pdthrush at chambers.gen.nz; Peter R. Rony
Subject:	It's been posted -- Boston Working Group


I just posted the following to the IANA comments list, ifwp, ifwp-law, and
domain name policy...

So we are live.

	--karl--

A group of IFWP participants gathered at an open meeting on the weekend of
September 19 and 20th, 1998 to see whether it was possible to reconcile
the NSI/IANA draft with the IFWP consensus points.

We believe that we succeeded.

For the results, see http://www.cavebear.com/bwg/

Summary of Changes

- Added Preamble and statement of purpose.

- Removed text that established the purpose of the corporation to be
  solely for "lessening the burdens of government".

- Mandated that the Initial board create a membership structure, without
  exception.

- Defined "fundamental" assets expected to be received from the US and added
  constraints upon what the corporation can do with those assets.

- Removed President from the Board of Directors.

- Re-cast Supporting Organizations to be essentially permanent advisory
  committees with very strong role in initiating and defining corporation
  policies.

- Eliminated Supporting Organizations' ability to appoint Directors to
  either the Initial or the final Board.

- Clarified that individuals may be members of Supporting Organizations.

- Added on-the-record, roll-call voting on matters before the Board.

- Added additional public access.

- Broadened rights to Board Reconsideration.

- Eliminated special and unique recognition of contracts between the US and
  NSI and between the US and University of Southern California.

- Added a more robust business planning and cost-recovery model.

- Required that conflict-of-interest statements be made public subject to
  reasonable privacy limitations.

- Required that conflict-of-interest provisions be applied to officers as
  well as to members of the Board.

- Recommended the reduction in the number of officers to the legal minimum.

- Other minor matters of clarification of language and structure.











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