With all due respect to the effort that was invested in revising the BC Charter, many of us that were in attendance in Seoul when the vote was taken to finalize it were in strong disagreement with significant parts of it.  Now whether the BC wants to change it or not, the current charter needs to be harmonized with other constituencies to arrive at a CSG charter that works for all.  So the work needs to be done (notwithstanding some members not wanting to see any revision) and I therefore support this work.

 

Regarding the BC meeting in Washington, I strongly encourage all members to make an effort to attend.  As has been noted, other constituencies meet outside of ICANN meetings and the BC should be no exception.  We, as a constituency, have a lot to do in order to build our organization to meet the needs of a growing and developing ICANN and DNS.  As such, we should be trying to get together in face-to-face meetings more often, but that is not possible for all of the reasons we can imagine.

 

In addition, I understand that our ExComm has put together a strong program with speakers that have relevance to our constituency and our constituency’s work, so rather than disparage the need for a meeting I suggest that our GNSO representatives promote attendance either in-person or via remote hook up.  This meeting will have great import to the role we play within ICANN, in my view, and I look forward to seeing/hearing as many of my fellow members on October 12th as possible.

 

Kind regards,

 

RA

 

Ronald N. Andruff

President

 

RNA Partners, Inc.

220 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10001

+ 1 212 481 2820 ext. 11

 

From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rodenbaugh
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:54 AM
To: 'bc - GNSO list'
Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] CSG charter and knock-on effects to BC charter

 

I agree with Philip.  We are a policy development organization, and should be spending as little time as possible on administrative items like Charter review.  We already spent a lot of precious time on that upon the GNSO Restructure over the last couple years.  Is more really necessary now? 

 

Does this really call for a face-to-face meeting of Members, when we know only a few members outside of Washington DC can realistically attend?

 

Mike Rodenbaugh

RODENBAUGH LAW

tel/fax:  +1 (415) 738-8087

http://rodenbaugh.com

 

From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:08 AM
To: 'bc - GNSO list'
Subject: [bc-gnso] CSG charter and knock-on effects to BC charter

 

Sarah,

thanks for your efforts on leading this.

In advance of the October 12 meeting would you explain now the proposed CSG charter changes please?

And also explain what it is in the BC charter that must change in light of these CSG updates.

 

In the previous BC charter debate we had tried to build in wording explicitly to AVOID the need to revisit the BC charter.

Given the months of debate we had on the current BC charter we should be certain that additional changes really are needed.

 

Many thanks

Philip