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. -------- Logged at Thu Sep 24 19:10:56 MET DST 1998 ---------