Liz, I think you may be putting the cart before the horse. I have it on good authority that staff is going to be putting forward a plan in the next days for the community to comment on prior to a more synthesized plan going before the board on December 7th. For my part, I don't see the wisdom in independently selecting a hand picked team under a self-developed Working Group charter, particularly when the new GNSO and Chair are just getting their heads around new operating procedures. It's confusing. I applaud the effort, but am concerned about the confusing messages being pushed to, or received by, the community. Everyone is anxious to seize on an opening, but let's not rush the process. Kind regards, RA Ronald N. Andruff RNA Partners, Inc. 220 Fifth Avenue, 20th floor New York, New York 10001 www.rnapartners.com V: +1 212 481 2820 x 11 F: +1 212 481 2859 _____ From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Liz Williams Sent: 2009-11-08 09:43 To: Michael D. Palage Cc: 'bc - GNSO list' Subject: Re: [bc-gnso] New gTLD Expression of Interest Working Group Hello Mike The small "points of contact" group is designed to reach out to everyone who may have an interest. You'll see that the indicative slate has "names" from each of the GNSO groups, the GAC, ALAC, ccNSO. The Board resolution requires a plan by the end of November for submission to the Dec 7 Board meeting. Anyone is welcome to participate but use the point of contact in the first instance so that the group can work efficiently. A publicly archived mail list, posting of documents and full disclosure of the document trail has already been requested as support from ICANN. Anyone can request to be an observer of the group. Liz On 7 Nov 2009, at 20:12, Michael D. Palage wrote: Hello All: Could the BC leadership please update the membership on this proposed Working Group for Expressions of Interests in connection with new gTLDs. It appears that Minds + Machines and other "TLD promoters" have proposed a Working Group for new gTLD Expressions of Interest. While I have no objection to the creation of such a working group, the proposal to limit participation to an apparent self-interested group is rather concerning. Hopefully the new Council, and our elected representatives will make sure that this Working Group is open to all that wish to participate. http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-06nov09-en.pdf (Doc #1) http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-draft-charter-06nov09-en. pdf (Doc #2) http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-proposed-outputs-06nov09- en.pdf (Doc #3) I am concerned that the BC will only have one representative (See Doc #2), and this self-selected group appears to have reached out unilaterally to Susan Kawaguchi. While I think Susan would provide an excellent participant I think all interested members from the Commercial Stakeholder Group should be able to participate. Best regards, Michael Palage