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<br><div><div>On Jan 8, 2013, at 7:49 PM, Edward Morris <<a href="mailto:edward.morris@ALUMNI.USC.EDU">edward.morris@ALUMNI.USC.EDU</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div>Our governing documents are a mess. </div></blockquote><div><br></div>You bet. I started playing with a redraft of the charter last year but realized it was too much for one person and there has to be a group dialogue first on a bunch of points. So among the groups we'll need to form this year is one to rework the charter.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>We should deal with this as a priority. For now, we need to work with what we have:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Bylaws+of+the+Noncommercial+Users+Constituency">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Bylaws+of+the+Noncommercial+Users+Constituency</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div>as opposed to this?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ncuc.org/page/charter-1">http://ncuc.org/page/charter-1</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's all a total mess.<br><blockquote type="cite">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17px"><br></span></div>C1 is problematic. There is no downloadable application form on the Constituency website. I read C! to <b>require a completed application</b> form that should be available on our website in downloadable form. We're guilty of not doing that. </span></div></blockquote><div><br></div>As I say...<br><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:17px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:17px">That presents another problem. To the best of my knowledge we do not currently have a Secretary - Treasurer. </span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nor do we have a Policy Committee. And so on...</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:20px"><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">
I hope I'm wrong and someone tells me we do have a S-T. If not, this would be a great leadership position for one of our new members. This seems to be Bill's call, with our consent, so I defer to his judgement.</p><div><br></div></span></div></blockquote>I suggested some time ago we should have a working group or team or whatever on finance that would be led by an EC member. </div><div><br></div><div>I am grading final exams and dealing with a lot of other post-holiday transitional crud, but will get on the ball soon and start peppering the EC and members with requests for help etc. In the meanwhile, people might have a look at <a href="http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/ec-ncuc/2012-December/thread.html#start">http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/ec-ncuc/2012-December/thread.html#start</a> and follow up on some of the dangling threads already introduced. We could start by getting the new EC on the ICANN site etc…</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>