In order to shape any conference call on the Charter I wonder if members would be kind enough to provide thoughts on the following. Background Today we have 41 members, 3 elected volunteer member officers, 3 appointed credentials committee, and 2 nom com appointees plus a part time secretariat. Additionally a number of members contribute to ad hoc policy and other task forces etc. Issue 1 - the balance between doers and members What is the right balance between the number of annually elected positions and the membership size ? Today (and for the last 10 years) it is 3/41 = 7% Draft charter changes it to 5/41 =12%. The draft charter also envisages other admin committees totalling with the elected positions 13/41 =32%. What is the right balance between elected, appointed and ad hoc ? Are there one third of the BC willing to volunteer their time to non-policy work? Is there sufficient motivation to be a member volunteer for mostly non-policy work? Do members want one set of elections per year or several ? What does it mean if we conduct an election but less than half the members vote? Issue 2 - balance of independence As ICANN starts to offer more services what degree of independence do we want as a constituency ? Do members wish to authorise the release of their private data to enable ICANN staff for instance in the future to run BC elections? Do members wish to entrust ICANN with the funds in the BC bank account ? Or should the ICANN toolbox be a basket of services that the secretariat can choose from? Knowing how members feel on these higher level issues may help us move forward and reach consensus on the shape of our future Charter. Philip