Hi Bruce, Allow me to suggest one more significant matter to your tall order:-) - understand basic policy matters (can translate/separate technical issues and their policy implications to members) regards, Sophia On 04/04/06, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au> wrote:

Hello All,

In addition to the generic criteria in the ICANN bylaws, here are some additional specific criteria that I personally think is relevant for the GNSO to consider. I would be interested in the thoughts from Council members on this list.

Here are my thoughts on additional criteria:

- experience at corporate governance (ie Board experience)

- willingness to coordinate closely with the GNSO Council and GNSO constituencies (e.g advise Council of upcoming agenda items, seek views etc. I recognise that a Board director must act in the best interests of ICANN as a whole, but I expect that a Board member elected by the GNSO would take advantage of the knowledge and contacts within the GNSO to be well informed on matters before making a decision)

- basic knowledge of domain name industry E.g registries, registrars, resellers (ISPs, telcos, web hosting), registrants (individual, domainer, SME, corporate)

- basic commercial acumen (ie can understand the commercial implications of decisions such as the recent change to the .com agreement)

- good communicator/listener (willing to listen to a wide range of views within the GNSO, and have the ability to communicate concerns about a particular issue)

- minimal potential conflicts of interest (any potential conflicts of interest should be clearly understood - e.g a few well known sources of funding from members of the ICANN community - such as a single employer, or a consultant for a few publicly announced organisations within the ICANN community)

Note that I don't expect that a candidate would meet all these criteria - but I hope that the criteria above may stimulate some thinking about good candidates.

Regards, Bruce Tonkin Registrars rep on GNSO Council