At-Large Staff ha scritto:
Dear All:
As you may recall, an Ad-Hoc Working Group on GNSO Improvements, with representatives of each RALO, has been working on a response to the public consultation on the Board Governance Committee¹s proposals for improvements to the GNSO.
As a part of that work, the working group was also engaged in negotiations with various communities within the GNSO Community, including the Commercial and Business Users, Intellectual Property, Internet Service and Connectino Providers, and Non-Commercial Users Constituencies.
The Joint Statement that resulted from those discussions was posted to the public comment forum today, and is accessible at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-improvements-report-2008/msg00012.html.
I wish I could make full comments to what I just read in this statement, but I am still a member of the GNSO Review WG and, in that role, I feel bound to recognize whatever consensus will emerge from the community and not to try to influence it too much. At the same time, there is one thing that I really can't refrain from saying: the political rationale for: - supporting an increased weight for the commercial user constituencies, that are the less diverse constituencies in ICANN, are focused on a narrow set of commercial interests from a handful of developed countries, and have been constantly opposing user interests on a number of matters; - supporting a reduced weight for the registry and registrar constituencies, that have been sympathetic with user interests on similar matters; - supporting the elimination of Nomcom appointees, that include the present Chair and that have traditionally been a strong factor in favour of breaking deadlocks and promoting the global public interest; - notwithstanding the disclaimer in the document, promoting the concept that the ALAC represents just another interest group of the GNSO and so it should perhaps, sooner or later, be demoted from the Board AC level to the SO constituency level; all of this just to get a couple of weightless voting positions in the GNSO council to be appointed by the ALAC, really escapes me. Regards, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------