Perhaps of interest... Begin forwarded message:
From: William Drake <william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch> Date: August 3, 2009 4:53:48 PM GMT+02:00 To: NCUC Members List <NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> Subject: Staff summary of charter public comments
Hi,
Now available for your reading pleasure at http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/pdfxiUwB0LQJc.pdf . Especially enjoyable is section 1, "The perceived failure by ICANN to accept the V-NCSG Charter." "Perceived" is a leitmotif; NCUC's members and supporters have all just imagined the problems. Ultimately, the rationale for rejecting NCUC's NCSG charter comes down to this, "The S-NCSG follows the Board‟s direction that the Constituency is the primary organizational unit within SGs and, as such, they are its only legitimate members." However, this apparently applies only to our charter, as the Registry and Registrar group charters do away with "the primary organizational unit within SGs."
Also of interest is this nugget:
"Finally, although the majority of comments were strongly in support of returning to the original NCUC Charter version, ALAC favored the SIC‟s NCSG Charter that, “best meets the aims of the new GNSO Model and the Boards criteria, which we support, and believe is (with the additional version changes as at July 19th ) being essentially met.” Continuing in this vein, ALAC noted, “Maturity and development of the new design GNSO and specifically the parity and viability of the User House will benefit greatly with the „fresh start‟ this Charter in our opinion provides and it should be noted that in it we can see that the opinions and views brought forward in our processes, activities and meetings on the matter have been recognised, heard and considered.” "
Which is interesting since there's been almost no discussion within ALAC since it's last statement on a prior version of the NCUC proposed, http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/msg00020.html , which noted that there was no ALAC consensus on the matter. It is rather unclear on what grounds staff can depict Cheryl's personal statement as a collective ALAC position, other than political convenience.
Best,
Bill
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