Below is a copy of the Terms Of Reference that Mike Lawrie and the ISOC-ZA Committee drew up for the Drafting Committee.
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Terms of Reference for .ZA Drafting Committee
Pre-amble:
The present administrator of the .ZA domain, Mike Lawrie, wishes
the responsibility for the .ZA domain to be handled in a manner that
has more input from the Internet community in South Africa, and that
has elements of joint responsibility. To this end, a new organisation
is to be formed. The present administrator of the ZA domain wishes to
work with ISOC-ZA in defining procedures for the transfer of
responsibility. This document is part of that collaboration.
Process:
The executive committee of ISOC-ZA shall appoint a Drafting Committee
for the purpose of drafting conditions that are to be used for and
guidelines that are to be used by a new administration of the .ZA
namespace.
This Drafting Committee must be mindful of the fact that it has a
relatively short life, whereas the administration process that is set
up as a result of their deliberations will continue long into the
future.
This document defines the terms of reference that are to be used by the
Drafting Committee. These terms of reference may be modified by the
executive committee of ISOC-ZA on request from the Drafting Committee.
While the focus of these terms of reference is on the top-level .ZA
domain and the second-level domains within it, the Drafting Committee
must deal with aspects of lower-level domains as it sees fit.
The issues to be dealt with by the Drafting Committee are:-
1. The Drafting Committee's task is to produce a proposal for a new
administration process for the .ZA domain.
2. The Drafting Committee shall invite submissions from all interested
parties, giving a reasonable time for submissions to be made.
3. All submissions that have been made within the given timescale as
set by the Drafting Committee are to be considered by the Drafting
Committee, and those submissions are to be included as an appendix to
the proposal for the new administration process whether or not the
submissions found favour with the Drafting Committee.
4. It is at the sole discretion of the Drafting Committee whether or not
to accept the ideas in the submissions that it receives, provided that
it has duly considered those ideas.
5. The proposal produced by the Drafting Committee is to be submitted to
the ISOC-ZA executive committee, which may accept or reject the proposal
but may not modify it. In the situation where the proposal is rejected,
then the administration of the .ZA namespace will continue as at present
and a new procedure will be set in motion. In the situation where the
proposal is accepted, the ISOC-ZA committee will then be tasked with
implementing the proposal.
6. The proposal must cover at least the following aspects of
administering the .ZA namespace:-
6.1. the procedure for appointing the body that makes the decisions
regarding second-level domains;
6.2. the procedure to be used for making the decision on whether or not
a requested second-level domain may be registered;
6.3. the criteria to be applied when deciding on registering a
second-level domain;
6.4. the requirements for the procedures that are to be implemented by
the new .ZA administration body when a second-level domain is applied
for;
6.5. the requirements for the conditions that are to be applied by the
new .ZA administration body on domain registrars responsible for
second-level domains;
6.6. whether or not there may be an appeal against a decision or an
appeal for revoking a decision regarding registration of a second-level
domain, and if so then:-
6.6.1. to whom the appeal is to be made for a final decision;
6.6.2. who has the right to make an appeal against a decision to
register a second-level domain or for revoking the registration of a
second-level domain (eg the requestor, a competitor, the general
public);
6.7. how the nameservers for .ZA are to be run, including the criteria
to be used to select the nameservers, and the process to be used in
assigning operational responsibility for the nameservers;
6.8. the criteria for selection of the funding model to be used by the
new .ZA administration;
6.9. the procedure for revoking the .ZA administration body's
appointment.
7. The proposal shall include a procedure to be followed in order to
change the procedures, conditions, criteria etc that are used in the
administration of the .ZA namespace.
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