- Category: (replace this text with one of the following categories: Administration/Budget, Board, ccTLD, gTLD, IP, ICANN Structure, International Agreement, Root Zone)
- Topic: (replace this text with a keywords from title)
- Board meeting date: 27 May 1999
- Resolution number: 99.54
- URL for Board minutes/resolution: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-27may99.htm
- Status: (replace this text with: Completed, Ongoing, Suspended)
Summary
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Staff described a proposal for the Protocol Supporting Organization (PSO) submitted on behalf of the IETF POISSON working group (attached hereto as Exhibit F) and reported that standards organizations including IETF, ITU, ETSI, W3C, and others have expressed support for the proposal.
Staff explained that the proposal contemplates a Memorandum of Understanding between standards organizations participating in the PSO and ICANN, and recommended that the President be directed to draft bylaws provisions formally establishing the PSO, to be considered for approval by the Board.
Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously approved the adoption of the following resolution (Directors Wilson and Capdeboscq being absent):WHEREAS the Board of Directors has received the proposal for a Protocol Supporting Organization submitted on April 23, 1999; and
WHEREAS the community of open, international, voluntary, Internet-related technical standard and technical specification development organizations has expressed its consensus support for the proposal;
BE IT RESOLVED (Resolution 99.54) that the Board accepts the proposal for a Protocol Supporting Organization submitted on April 23, 1999, and authorizes and directs the President to prepare implementing Bylaws, and to sign an appropriate Memorandum of Understanding in cooperation with the proponents of the proposal, subject to ratification by the Board.
Implementation Actions
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Other Related Resolutions
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Additional Information
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