IETF -- 26 July 1999 -- IETF-Announce ------------------------------------- Regarding the PSO 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