If I had to make the decision, I would have to endorse the Avri Doria's statement. The bicameral council idea is some neat footworks but I cannot find anywhere reference to a "conference committee" that would be necessary to "iron out" differences that would (shall?) emerge from both houses in order to report a "consensus" position to the ICANN Board. So the complexity imposed doesn't appear to get you further along the path to consensus in a shorter time! A question as to rationale. As I understand it, a call for an Issues Report is the pre-requisite to the PDP. Why then would (or should?) the voting threshold requirements be different? The statements of the Registry & NCUC representatives certainly peaked my interest. They seem more about personal animus than not. Carlton -----Original Message----- From: alac-internal-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-internal-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Cheryl Langdon-Orr Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:06 AM To: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Cc: 'ALAC internal list' Subject: [ALAC-Internal] Report to the ICANN Board of Directors from WG on GNSO Council Restructuring At-Large. please note that earlier today the ALAC Executive and our representative on this WG Alan Greenberg, met and discussed our desire to have a formal ALAC Statement to the Board on this matter. Please see our Wiki page https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?at_large_advisory_committee to find a link to the report of the WG from this now completed process, and also under Announcements to find an short background piece from the report and a note as to the mechanism for the ALAC to review our sub-committee and Rep statement appended to it, to be endorsed (in an expanded form if so desired) as an ALAC Statement to the Board. ALAC this serves as the start of the 7 day minimum notice required for a formal vote to be taken (between meetings) on this matter and in the next 24hrs further background documents and proposed expansion of this statement will be posted and a Big Pulse vote be created for the purpose of recording your views to 1. Endorse the proposed document an ALAC Statement, 2. Vote against the proposal or 3. Abstain. More in the next 24hrs. CLO _______________________________________________ ALAC-Internal mailing list ALAC-Internal@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-internal_atlarge-lists. icann.org ALAC Wiki: http://st.icann.org/alac At-Large Website: http://atlarge.icann.org