[At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] Report to the ICANN Board of Directors from WG on GNSO Council Restructuring

[Alan Greenberg]

I am replying purely to the At-Large list, because I  presume that 
anyone on the ALAC list is also here.

A few comments are embedded below.

Alan

At 29/07/2008 12:47 PM, Carlton Samuels wrote:
>If I had to make the decision,

This is the line that captures the entire issue over the last months. 
It is easy for anyone person to make a reasoned and informed decision 
in support of what he/she believes is in the best interests of ICANN. 
It is an awful lot more difficult to find a solution that all parties 
can live with, and certainly impossible to find a solution that all 
parties feel is optimal.

>I would have to endorse the Avri Doria's
>statement. The bicameral council idea is some neat footworks but I cannot
>find anywhere reference to a "conference committee" that would be necessary
>to "iron out" differences that would (shall?) emerge from both houses in
>order to report a "consensus" position to the ICANN Board. So the complexity
>imposed doesn't appear to get you further along the path to consensus in a
>shorter time!

Not sure what "conference committee" you are referring to. There are 
indeed some issues to be addressed in the proposals sent to the 
Board, but (in my mind), they are likely fixable.


>A question as to rationale. As I understand it, a call for an Issues Report
>is the pre-requisite to the PDP. Why then would (or should?) the voting
>threshold requirements be different?

I don't really understand the question. An issues report is the first 
step on a GNSO PDP. You ask why should/would the voting thresholds be 
different. Different from what?


>The statements of the Registry & NCUC representatives certainly peaked my
>interest. They seem more about personal animus than not.

The 10 or so hours of conference calls and 550 e-mail messages should 
be online soon. With sufficient spare time, you can judge for yourself. ;-)



>Carlton
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Langdon-Orr
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>Subject: [ALAC-Internal] Report to the ICANN Board of Directors from WG on
>GNSO Council Restructuring
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>At-Large.  please note that earlier today the ALAC Executive and our
>representative on this WG Alan Greenberg, met and discussed our desire to
>have a formal ALAC Statement to the Board on this matter.
>
>
>
>Please see our Wiki page
>https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?at_large_advisory_committee  to find a
>link to the report of the WG  from this now completed process, and also
>under Announcements to find an short background piece from the report and  a
>note as to the mechanism for the ALAC to review our sub-committee and Rep
>statement appended to it, to be endorsed (in an expanded form if so desired)
>as an ALAC Statement to the Board.
>
>
>
>ALAC  this serves as the start of the 7 day  minimum notice required for a
>formal vote to be taken (between meetings) on this matter and in the next
>24hrs further background documents and proposed expansion of this statement
>will be posted and a Big Pulse vote be created for the purpose of recording
>your views to 1. Endorse the proposed document an ALAC Statement, 2. Vote
>against the proposal or 3. Abstain.
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>More in the next 24hrs.
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>
>CLO
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