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<div>Thanks, Bill.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the link for the document with staff's "summary and analysis" of public comments for GNSO Stakeholder Group Charters.</div><div> <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/msg00074.html">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/msg00074.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Despite the overwhelming public opposition from noncommercial users to the ICANN drafted NCSG charter, the ICANN Board of Directors adopted it a few days ago in defiance to noncommercial users. The board was not even provided with civil society's NCSG charter by staff/SIC with the meeting documents so I don't believe it ever understood what NCUC's concerns actually are. It turns out the only NCSG charter tabled for adoption at all at the board meeting was the staff/SIC drafted NCSG charter, so users never had a chance to influence ICANN, and the public comment period was just another prime example of ICANN's "public participation" farce.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not convinced that we have to accept this charter, and I certainly think we need to work to raise awareness of ICANN's growing inability to govern in an open, accountable, and transparent way.</div><div><br></div><div>In this "summary", ICANN uses against us the fact that we engaged in outreach on the charter injustices and encouraged participation, by calling it a "letter writing campaign" in order to justify why ICANN doesn't have to consider the views expressed by those people who submitted comments in response. If we don't engage in outreach, ICANN holds it against us, and we do engage in outreach and try to raise awareness of important issues of concern to noncommercial users, ICANN holds that against us too.</div><div><br></div><div>It was amazing how ICANN attaches the label of "ALAC" to the statement of personal support for the staff-drafted charter from ALAC's Cheryl Langdon Orr in ICANN's attempted justification. Especially since the CLO statement explicitly said it did not have the support of ALAC; and the only ALAC statement on record in April said there was no consensus supporting the model staff chose. I don't believe that ALAC's membership would appreciate being used by ICANN to impose a charter on noncommercial users that 80+ noncommercial orgs have said would harm their interests. </div><div><br></div><div>ICANN's ability to selectively choose nonsense to support its pre-determined result has to be examined and have the clear light of day shone on it. We need a major campaign to raise awareness of of ICANN's incompetence to govern and squeezing out of noncommercial users in the policy development process. We should write and blog this travesty of justice in each of our communities, and we should contact our local politicians, our representatives of the Govt. Advisory Comte, and media and other press outlets to raise awareness of these ICANN injustices. And we need to continue to conduct outreach (even though ICANN holds it against us) and grow our membership, and bring in new and more diverse perspectives into the policy development process. This is far from over.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Aug 3, 2009, at 7:53 AM, William Drake wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Now available for your reading pleasure at <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/pdfxiUwB0LQJc.pdf">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/pdfxiUwB0LQJc.pdf</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Especially enjoyable is section 1, "The perceived failure by ICANN to accept the V-NCSG Charter."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Perceived" is a leitmotif; NCUC's members and supporters have all just imagined the problems.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, this apparently applies only to our charter, as the Registry and Registrar group charters do away with "the primary organizational unit within SGs."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Also of interest is this nugget:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"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.” "</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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, <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/msg00020.html">http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/msg00020.html</a>, which noted that there was no ALAC consensus on the matter.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is rather unclear on what grounds staff can depict Cheryl's personal statement as a collective ALAC position, other than political convenience.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bill</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">***********************************************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">William J. Drake</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Senior Associate</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Centre for International Governance</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Graduate Institute of International and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Development Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Geneva, Switzerland</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">***********************************************************</div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>