Good
suggestions, Ron. I'm in general support.
Marilyn
and all,
In discussions
with Peter DT, he has made it clear that Monday's comment session is critical
to coming to closure with the GAC. It is clear that GAC members must take
something home for their ministers, so we need to give some serious thought to
what those things might be. Two ideas that come to mind are (1) recommend that
all community based applications be allowed to apply simultaneously for their
IDN equivalents or a small fee per string, which would lead to each nation
being able to use non-English / non-ASCII scripts (and therein a "win"); and
(2) suggest that a way to get past the impass of too many "2"s in the
scorecard would be to go forward with a limited round to start so that we can
all see if the current AGB (as suggested by the Board) is functional or needs
the modifications currently revcommended by the GAC. In any case, according to
PDT, we cannot leave SFO without resolution. IMHO, that must be the message we
share with all we meet in the meeting rooms and halls....
Kind regards,
RA
Date: Sun, 13 Mar
2011 16:22:51 -0400
Subject: [bc-gnso]
urgent update to all BC members -- regarding BC statement regarding Board-GAC
Scorecard issues
During a meeting with Kurt Pritz, V.President, ICANN with the
GNSO and the GNSO Council, he announced that there is agreement to have short
statements from the Chairs of the SOs/ACs and SGs at the beginning of the
session on Monday that reviews the Board and GAC Scorecard Document [showing
1a, 1b, and 2].
I am going to convene a process to draft a statement from the BC [we
don't have a CSG chair/and at this point, the position I have given to the
chairs within the CSG is that we will each make a statement for our
Constituency. I intend that we will have a statement, since we have a lot at
risk to ensure that the input of the BC's Constituency members are reflected
in the statement.
Zahid and John are going to have a heavy work load on this -- they have
Council to 'guide' [and have done a great job already on that in the
discussions so far. ]
I will be conferring with excomm on how to do a statement and clear it
with you all/stay closely
tuned.