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+Network Working Group                                         S. Bradner
+Request for Comments: 2690                            Harvard University
+Category: Informational                                   September 1999
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+    A Proposal for an MOU-Based ICANN Protocol Support Organization
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+Status of this Memo
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+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
+   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
+   memo is unlimited.
+
+Copyright Notice
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+   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.
+
+1. Abstract
+
+   This is a copy of the proposal for an MOU-based Protocol Supporting
+   Organization that was submitted to ICANN on April 23, 1999.
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+2. Cover Letter
+
+   This is a copy of the cover letter that was used to submit the draft
+   to ICANN.
+
+   Dear Esther,
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+           Enclosed please find a description of a proposed Protocol
+   Support Organization (PSO) for ICANN's consideration.  This
+   description is purposefully informal as it is meant to be a basis for
+   discussion and not a final formal legal document.
+
+           This proposal was developed primarily by using the open
+   Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) poisson working group mailing
+   list to discuss successive versions of the proposal.  In addition the
+   proposal has benefited from extensive discussion within the IETF's
+   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and Internet Architecture
+   Board (IAB).  The proposal also benefited from extended discussions
+   with representatives of the International Telecommunication Union
+   (ITU) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
+
+           I look forward to ICANN's evaluation of this proposal and am
+   also looking forward to the MOU development meeting  noted in section
+   1.c of the proposal.
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+Bradner                      Informational                      [Page 1]
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+RFC 2690                   ICANN PSO Proposal             September 1999
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+   Thanks
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+   Scott
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+3. Proposal for a MOU-based PSO
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+                     ICANN Protocol Supporting Organization
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+   1. Definition of the PSO.
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+      a. Purpose.
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+         The Protocol Support Organization (PSO) will be a consensus-
+         based advisory body within the ICANN framework.
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+      b. Components.
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+         The PSO will establish a "Protocol Council" and host an annual
+         open meeting (known as the "General Assembly" (described
+         below)).
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+      c. Creation through a Memorandum of Understanding.
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+         Arrangements regarding the PSO are to be reflected in a
+         Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) among ICANN and a group of
+         open international Internet related standards development
+         organizations (SDOs). SDOs must satisfy a set of objective
+         criteria before they can be considered for membership. (see
+         Appendix A) After ICANN has accepted a proposal for an ICANN
+         PSO, including the SDO criteria, a meeting, open to all SDOs
+         that believe they meet the criteria, will be held to develop
+         the MOU.
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+         All existing MOU signatories must agree to the admission of new
+         signatories. Rejected applicants can appeal to the ICANN Board
+         where a 2/3rds majority can override such a rejection if the
+         board finds the SDO meets the criteria.
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+   2. The Protocol Council
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+      a. Members
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+         The Protocol Council will have up to [12] individual members
+         selected by the SDO signatories of the MOU. (see below)
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+RFC 2690                   ICANN PSO Proposal             September 1999
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+      b. Term
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+         The term of Protocol Council members will be 2 years. Removal
+         will be pursuant to procedures established through the MOU.
+         (Initial terms will be 1 and 2 years to provide initial
+         conditions for staggered terms.)
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+      c. Powers/Duties of the Protocol Council
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+         i   Appointment of ICANN Directors
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+             The Protocol Council will nominate 3 Directors to the ICANN
+             Board (By-laws, Art. V, Sec. 4(iii)). The initial directors
+             would have terms of 1, 2 and 3 years (By-laws, Art. V, Sec.
+             9(d)
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+             The Protocol Council will conduct an open call for
+             nominations for any open PSO seats on the ICANN board. Each
+             SDO signatory to the MOU is entitled to nominate candidates
+             by procedures of its own choosing. Additionally,
+             nominations from the public at large should be allowed
+             under conditions to be defined by the Protocol Council.
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+             The Protocol Council will select the PSO nominees to the
+             ICANN board from among these nominees by a means of its own
+             choosing.
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+         ii  Qualifications of ICANN Directors
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+             No more than 2 PSO-nominated Directors may come from the
+             same geographic region.
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+         iii Role of ICANN Directors
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+             The Directors appointed by the Protocol Council will not
+             represent the PSO on the Board, but will function as full
+             Directors of ICANN.  (By-laws, Art. V, Sec. 8)
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+         iv  Advisory Role
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+             The Protocol Council will advise the Board of ICANN on
+             matters referred to the Protocol Council by the ICANN
+             Board. As per the ICANN By-laws, only matters relating to
+             the assignment of parameters for Internet protocols would
+             be so referred.
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+      d. Policy Development
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+         In the tradition of the Internet, standards development
+         policies and conflict resolution mechanisms should be created
+         by those institutions most directly involved, without undue
+         interference from centralized bodies.
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+         The ICANN By-laws vest in the PSO the primary responsibility
+         for developing and recommending substantive policies in the
+         area of protocol parameter assignment.  The PSO is committed to
+         the proposition that policies for parameter assignments for
+         particular protocols are the responsibility of the individual
+         SDO that developed the protocol. The Protocol Council will be
+         available as needed by the SDOs to develop policies and
+         procedures for conflict resolution between SDOs. (By-laws, New
+         Art. VI, Sec. 2(b)). Any policies must be adopted by consensus
+         of all SDOs.  The ICANN Board of Directors will take no
+         addition action regarding disputes between SDOs related to
+         protocol assignment or registration.
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+   3. Annual Open Meeting (General Assembly)
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+      a. Hosting an open meeting
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+         The Protocol Council will periodically host an open meeting
+         ("General Assembly") for promoting discussion and receiving
+         input regarding the work of the PSO. A General Assembly meeting
+         will be held at least once per year, and will permit open
+         participation by all interested individuals.
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+         The annual open meeting will be held in conjunction with a
+         major meeting of one of the SDOs that have signed the MOU.
+         (with an effort to hold no 2 consecutive meetings in the same
+         geographic region.
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+         It is expected that the major SDOs within the Internet protocol
+         standards development community will provide the constituency
+         of the General Assembly.
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+      b. Selection of Protocol Council Members
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+         Prior to the annual open meeting, the Protocol Council shall
+         make an open call for nominations to the upcoming vacancies in
+         the Protocol Council. Each SDO signatory to the PSO MOU will be
+         entitled to make nominations for some or all of the vacant
+         seats by a procedure of its own choosing. In the event that
+         there are more nominees than vacancies, an election will be
+         held in which each SDO signatory to the PSO MOU has equal votes.
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+         Protocol Council Members should fairly represent, to the extent
+         reasonable, all constituencies within the member SDOs,
+         including the major technical areas and geographical regions.
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+   4. Open Proceedings and Documents
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+      a. Communications between ICANN and the PSO
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+         All communications between ICANN and the PSO will be made
+         public on the PSO web site. In the event that ICANN requests
+         that a communication be kept confidential, the PSO will honor
+         this request for a fixed period of time not to exceed one year,
+         and then make the communication public.
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+      b. PSO Proceedings
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+         All discussions of PSO business will be conducted on a
+         publicly-archived mailing list accessible through the PSO web
+         site. The schedule for the PSO meetings will be posted 90 days
+         in advance of the meeting date. The agenda for the Protocol
+         Council and annual open meetings will be posted on the PSO web
+         site at least 30 days before the meetings.  The minutes from
+         all PSO meetings will be publicly posted on the PSO web site
+         within 30 days of the meeting.
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+   5. Review of MOU
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+      The MOU signatories will periodically review the results and
+      consequences of their cooperation under the MOU. When appropriate,
+      the signatories will consider the need for improvements in the MOU
+      and make suitable proposals for modifying and updating the
+      arrangements and scope of the MOU.
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+   6. Recognition
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+      ICANN will officially recognize the PSO described in this memo as
+      the PSO under the ICANN By-laws Art. 6, Sec. 3.
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+Appendix A - requirements for consideration as a PSO-qualified SDO
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+      SDOs must be open, international, voluntary technical standard and
+      technical specification development organizations which:
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+      1) Develop standards and/or specifications for use over the public
+         Internet.
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+      2) Can demonstrate active membership in the IP-related standards
+         and/or specification development process of more than 1000
+         individuals, if individual memberships are used by the
+         organization, or 100 companies, if corporate memberships are
+         used by the organization.
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+      3) Has been in operation for 3 or more years at the time of their
+         application.
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+      4) Can demonstrate that there is significant deployment of its
+         standards on the Internet.
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+      5) The significant protocols controlled by the organization can be
+         implemented without paying a licensing fee to the organization
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+      Open international voluntary standards bodies are defined as
+      international organizations that plan, develop or establish
+      voluntary standards.
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+      An organization shall be considered open and international if its
+      standards and/or specifications development process is open to any
+      person or organization of any nationality on equitable terms. It
+      shall be considered voluntary if it makes no claim to compel use
+      of its standards and specifications.
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+      In either case, to be considered as 'international', the voting
+      (or other "full") membership must include individuals or companies
+      primarily located in at least three different regions and at least
+      two different countries within each of those regions.
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+4. Security Considerations
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+   This type of non-protocol document does not directly effect the
+   security of the Internet.
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+5. Editor's Address
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+   Scott Bradner
+   Harvard University
+   1350 Mass Ave, rm 876
+   Cambridge, MA
+   02138
+   USA
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+   Phone: +1 617 495 3864
+   EMail: sob@harvard.edu
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+6. Full Copyright Statement
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+   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.
+
+   This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
+   others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
+   or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
+   and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
+   kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
+   included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this
+   document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
+   the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
+   Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
+   developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
+   copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
+   followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
+   English.
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+   The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
+   revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
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+   This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
+   "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
+   TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
+   BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
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+   MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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+Acknowledgement
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+   Funding for the RFC Editor function is currently provided by the
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