Dennis Jennings' Statement of the ccTLD Constituency at the ICANN Open Meeting

To the Board of ICANN,

The ccTLD Constituency held a meeting on 7 March 2000. The meeting addressed a number of issues, including the preparation of an agreed budget for ICANN for 2000/2001. The meeting confirmed that there was a general willingness among ccTLD Managers to participate in this budget process and to contribute to the funding of ICANN.

The meeting decided to nominate a delegation to participate in this budget process, and the meeting agreed that 5 ccTLD representatives should be selected, one from each of the 5 regions recognised in the ICANN by-laws.

The following delegation was therefore selected:

Willie Black -- Europe

Naomasa Maruyama -- Asia Pacific

Bill Semich -- North America

Oscar Robles -- Latin America and the Caribbean

Aguinaldo Salvaterra -- Africa

The meeting agreed that the delegation should participate collectively in the ICANN Task Force discussions.

We wish to reaffirm out commitment to an ICANN built on bottom-up consultation process with its constituent parts.

We request that the ICANN Board find and appropriate mechanism to accommodate a representative delegation of ccTLDs in the ICANN budget process.

On behalf of the ccTLD Consittuency meeting held 7 March 2000,

Dennis Jennings Kilman Chon

Co-Chair Co-chair