Berlin – May 24^th, 1999

Present

Olivier INTEANU – CIGREF

Jean François Lavignon – BULL

Waclaw Iszkowski – Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications

Izumi – APIA

Masanobu Katoh – Fujitsu

Theresa Swinehart – MCI Worldcom

Werner – ICC

Jan Lange Deutsche Telecom

John C. Lewis – BT

Rafael Ale – AHCIET

Rosa Delgado – SITA

Daniel – ISOC NL

Javier Sola – EuroInternet (chairing the session)

1. History of the Constituency and process.
2. Administration matters:

• Secretariat
• Membership
• Dues/financial
• Elections
• Representation
• Calendar

1. Wipo report
2. Geographical diversity

Development:

List of secretariat functions prepared:

• Coordinate
• Mailing lists
• Website
• Maintain calendar of issues
• Collecting fees
• Election process
• Create and follow credentials committee.
• Arrange meetings
• Follow decision making processes

Cigref has budget: for 50 members it would be US$2,000 from each member. The form recommends US$750 as maximum.

The issue is complicated. Let us see what the DNSO assembly says about a joint secretariat.

There is agreement that the same person may represent their company in different constituencies

The Charter

The permanent charter will be written today, taking out all the temporary provisions. There will be no calendar.

Nominations by September 7^th. Nominations must include budget (almost like bids). An elections calendar will be developed.

ITAA will host the dnsobusiness.org website. It will be run by the secretariat.

Javier will pass the structured member list to the secretariat.

The interim secretariat:

• Manage member list
• Mange website and mailing lists
• Post minutes
• Call for elections for permanent secretariat

1. Freezing member list for elections on November 12^th, 1999
2. Nominations for Names Council representatives from November 15^th to November 29^th, 1999
3. Electronic elections from December 2^nd to 16^th, 1999.
4. Announcement on December 17^th.

The DNSO Business Constituency supports the WIPO report as a working document. We generally agree with the principles in the WIPO report and we applaud their effort. We look forward to working closely with WIPO to finalize and implement fully the proposals.