[ALAC] NCUC Response to Board Letter

[William Drake]

Hello,

On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:

>
> I should have said:
>
> "… the NCUC had asked the Board to refrain from approving any new  
> GNSO Constituencies until "the ongoing debates over the status of  
> Constituencies and their role in the NCSG is resolved next year""
>
> As that would have precisely quoted you and what you said.

Please bear in mind that the NCUC letter is building off of the SIC/ 
staff transitional charter's language and other info we've received  
about the timeline for a review.  However, once again, this does not  
mean that NCUC prefers an extended timeline for revising the charter  
consensually and launching qualifying constituencies thereafter.  As I  
said to to Roberto the other day on this list, one of the disconnects  
concerns

On Oct 18, 2009, at 6:18 PM, William Drake wrote:
>
> *Whether constituencies should be formed soon under the SIC/staff  
> transitional charter, rather than waiting a little while until a  
> mutually satisfactory final arrangement can be arrived at.  We  
> remain concerned that doing it under the SIC/staff version would  
> lock that in and make a joint review and revision impossible.  The  
> timing here is up to you folks on the board, not us.  We'd prefer to  
> resolve things with you ASAP, and constituency launches could then  
> proceed as soon as there are viable proposals.  Unfortunately, I  
> think NCUC folks have contributed to confusion on this point by  
> saying the review should happen within a year, which some have  
> processed as meaning we want to wait a year before anything can be  
> launched.  Within a year doesn't mean in a year, we can do this as  
> soon as you're ready.

That is, in Seoul or anytime soon thereafter.

Best,

Bill