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

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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