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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Denise:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It is good to see ICANN staff becoming
more flexible about the formation of the new Stakeholder Groups.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>However, you still are deviating rather
significantly from the Board Governance Committee’s reform principles. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The spirit of the BGC reforms was to encourage
consensus policy making, balanced representation, and a move away from the gridlock
that has beset the GNSO for years. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Unfortunately the staff’s approach
to the reform process is having the opposite effect: it is encouraging political
infighting and fragmentation rather than consensus.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Right now the staff is actively
encouraging the formation of new constituencies. Your intent is probably to
encourage new participation, but in fact that is not happening. No new
organizations or participants have surfaced in this process: ALL of the new
constituency proponents are simply existing members of GNSO constituencies or long
time members of At Large RALOs. Creating new constituencies IS NOT the same
thing as bringing in new participants. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The real effect of your actions is simply
to set in motion a willy-nilly fragmentation of stakeholder groups and a rather
nasty kind of political competition. Each of these constituencies is convinced
that if they break away from other groups and form their “own”
constituency they have more exclusive power and will be guaranteed seats on the
GNSO council. And since the number of seats on the Council is fixed, the
attempt to form new constituencies is a zero sum game, in which one group’s
recognition as a constituency inherently diminishes the number of seats that
can be held by other constituencies. This creates an unhealthy, uncooperative
environment. It fosters a war of all against all. The Board will be inundated
with lobbying as these groups seek recognition for themselves and heap
criticism on other proposed constituencies as being “unrepresentative”
or “unfair.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bertrand and other advocates of
consensus-based multistakeholderism would be shocked if they knew what was
really happening. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>BGC members have repeatedly told me and
other members of the GNSO that the Stakeholders should develop and propose _<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>their own</span></i>_ structures. Shockingly, the
Board has approved (BR 12 December 2008) without any debate or public
comment on its implications, a proposal to have the entire GNSO and At Large
define the structure of the new Noncommercial Stakeholders Group. This means
that commercial stakeholder groups and supplier groups will get to dictate how
our SG is organized. </span></font><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>But no one has invited
NCUC to participate in defining a new structure for the Commercial SG, or the
Registrar and Registry SGs. This kind of discrimination among SGs is
unacceptable. It exemplifies the political war that you are creating. Such
pressure and discrimination will only discourage existing noncommercial
entities from participating in ICANN's GNSO. </span></font><font size=2
color="#333399" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#333399'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Contrary to your claim, your approach does
increase layers of bureaucracy. All of these constituencies will have their own
organizational structure, their own membership eligibility criteria, their own
email lists, etc., etc. With separate lists, no member of one constituency will
know what is going on in the other, unless they join ,many new lists –
the last thing we need. Then the leaders of all these constituencies will have to
engage in time-consuming, highly political negotiations with the leaders of other
constituencies to allocate Council seats and agree on policies. This two-layered
structure is a disaster, it creates the kind of overwhelming organizational
overhead that kills participation by newcomers. For newcomers to ICANN, the
organizational complexity is already daunting. You cannot expect to increase
participation by doing this. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The only solution to these problems is to
break out of the constituency model altogether. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>NCUC has thought carefully about the
problem of Stakeholder Group structure and has prepared a proposal that solves
these problems. Although every Board member we have talked to has supported our
approach, certain members of the staff have greeted it with hostility. We are
puzzled by this. Nevertheless, we are convinced it is the right approach and
are willing to take our case to the Board, to the GAC, and to the public. In
any fair comparison, we have no doubt about which proposal will look better to
those people who really want to make bottom up work. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=FR
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>--Milton Mueller, member,
Noncommercial Users Constituency<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=FR
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=FR
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
owner-liaison6c@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-liaison6c@gnso.icann.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Denise Michel<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 15, 2009
8:39 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> council@gnso.icann.org;
liaison6c; Cheryl Langdon-Orr; Alan Greenberg; Janis Karklins; Bertrand de La
Chapelle<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Staff GNSO Implementation
Planning Team; Nick Ashton-Hart; Donna Austin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [liaison6c] Development
of Stakeholder Groups</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>Dear Community Members: </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>Staff would like to share another draft Stakeholder Group
Petition/Charter Template (attached) to support and inform discussions on this
matter. This compliments the draft template provided in October 2008. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>Recognizing that we are all operating in uncharted territory,
our collective thinking continues to evolve concerning Stakeholder Groups and
how they might be optimally constructed, especially in the formative stages of
the GNSO Improvements implementation. After considering some
initial ideas and models, we found ourselves gravitating toward a less
encumbered structure. The result is the attached template that we are
circulating to the GNSO and broader community in hopes that it will be useful
as discussions on forming four Stakeholder Groups move forward. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='background:white;-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;-moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;background-attachment:scroll;
background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%'><font size=3 color=black
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black'>Underscoring our latest thinking is the following quotation from
the BGC Report on GNSO Improvements, adopted by the Board, which states that
(page 33), "The stakeholder groups may function only as a 'caucus,'
bringing together like-minded stakeholders to elect representatives to the
Council who can represent them. This structure would be fluid enough to
accommodate new constituencies or the formation of new interest groups.
It will be important for the implementation team to consider how to implement
this flexibility within the overall stakeholder structure set forth in these
recommendations. <u>Our goal is definitely not to create a new layer of
bureaucracy</u> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>(emphasis added)</span></i>,
as we heard concerns about at the San Juan Meeting." </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>This revised draft template emphasizes the constituency's
continued preeminence within the GNSO and, at the same time, establishes a
Stakeholder Group organization comprising minimal administrative and
operational essentials until such time as our experiences may suggest a more
elaborate design. In the bullets below, we have annotated where our first
draft template was changed along with rationale where appropriate. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>This streamlined approach also may be easier to implement in
the June time frame (you'll recall that the Board needs to review and approve
SG plans before a newly structured GNSO Council is seated in June 2009). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>Staff stands ready to provide assistance and work with you in
the construction of the Stakeholder Group organizations and
charters. Please feel free to call upon us to discuss Stakeholder
Group creation or to help with other restructuring matters -- <a
href="mailto:policy-staff@icann.org" target="_blank">policy-staff@icann.org</a>.
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'> Regards,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br clear=all>
Denise Michel<br>
ICANN Vice President<br>
Policy Development<br>
<a href="mailto:denise.michel@icann.org" target="_blank">denise.michel@icann.org</a><br>
+1.310.578.8632<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>Notes on changes to Staff's first draft template</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>1)</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold'>Section
2.0 -- Organization and Membership</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>a.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Replaced
sub-sections 2.2 and 2.3. Consistent with the current Bylaws, new
constituency petitions are sent to the Board (also copied to the GNSO Council
and publicly posted for comment) for formal approval including final placement
within a particular Stakeholder Group. Until the Bylaws are
amended, we propose that these functions be stipulated within the SG charter
and re-evaluated at a future date. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>b.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Added sub-section
2.4 to differentiate and emphasize constituency rights and responsibilities
from those of the SG.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><b><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";
font-weight:bold'>2)</span></font></b><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>
</span></font><b><font face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";
font-weight:bold'>Section 3.0 -- Leadership</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>a.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Consistent with
the BGC guidance, we amended sub-section 3.1 to add the option to structure an
informal leadership caucus (e.g. of Constituency Chairs) vs. formally elected
officers. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>b.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Original section
4.0 – Stakeholder Group Functions was edited and absorbed into
sub-section 3.3. The principal functions of the SG remain
substantially as they were originally conceived. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>c.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Sub-sections 3.4
and 3.5 were edited for additional clarity and 3.6 was removed on the basis
that, to further reduce SG administrative tasks, membership lists should
continue to be maintained by constituencies until such time as the GNSO has a
master database containing GNSO participants (as recommended in the BGC
Report). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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