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<div>The Commercial Stakeholder Group and ICANN staff have convinced the ICANN Board that NCUC is a "cabal" of a small number of people, who just won't share power with others.</div><div><br></div><div>But the London School of Economics Report, which documented the facts of the matter in 2006, shows a very different picture in which NCUC has most number of different people serving on the GNSO Council and the most turn-over of councilors of any of the 6 constituencies. In the time period (2001-2006) NCUC had 15 different people serve on the GNSO Council. From 2003-2006 we had 8 changes of GNSO representatives, while the ISPs had 0 turn-over and the BC only had 1 change in GNSO representation. Yet they have been able to 'spin it' like we are the "cabal" of a small number of people who won't share power.</div><div><br></div><div>See the attached table from the LSE Report Appendix. The LSE Report was published in 2006, and since then we have continued to have high turn-over on the GNSO Council (all of our councilors now are in their 1st term on council).</div><div><br></div><div>This has been an interesting study in how facts can be entirely pushed aside when there are enough paid lobbyists whispering lies into the Board's ears for so long. After awhile, these lies become presumed truths, just by virtue of being repeated enough times. Fascinating study in the failure of human cognition.</div><div><br></div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><span><img src="cid:31F226F8-441A-4153-8112-86CC640AF672@local"></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><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></div></body></html>