<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Ray Fassett" <<a href="mailto:ray@goto.jobs">ray@goto.jobs</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">August 18, 2009 10:06:11 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"'Julie Hedlund'" <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>FW: GCOT request for input from NCUC members</b></font></div> <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Dear Robin:</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">We are in receipt of your input to the attached document. If additional members have input (background information below), our request from the Work Team is to submit these comments to </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial"><a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a> <font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">by end of business day Friday, August 21. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.</span></font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Sincerely,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Ray Fassett<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Chair<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">GCOT</span></font></p> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" tabindex="-1"> </span></font></div><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"> Ray Fassett [<a href="mailto:ray@goto.jobs">mailto:ray@goto.jobs</a>] <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:45 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> '<st1:personname w:st="on"><a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></st1:personname>'<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> GCOT request for input from NCUC members</span></font></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Dear Robin:</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">The GNSO Council Operations Work Team (GCOT) is requesting feedback from you and your members with regards to the attached document. While we are asking one question as noted below, all comments are welcome as our goal is for broader community feedback at this time. In this light, our aim is for individual feedback vs. formal Constituency statement. Our request is to distribute to your members. All replies should be to Julie Hedlund at <a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>, assisting our Work Team in an administrative position. Julie will then forward all comments received to our Work Team discussion list. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">The Operating Steering Committee GNSO Operations Work Team (“Work Team”) has been tasked with determining high-level operating principles for the GNSO. In line with this mandate, the Work Team has been considering how to establish a stronger, more effective GNSO. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">This document describes a Generic Name Supporting Organization with two separate, functional bodies (as opposed to our existing single body known as the Policy Council), which we think may achieve the goal stated above. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">THE WORK TEAM WOULD LIKE TO STRESS THAT THIS PROPOSAL SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED AS A FIRM RECOMMENDATION. NEITHER SHOULD IT BE ASSUMED THAT THERE IS CONSENSUS FOR THIS APPROACH WITHIN THE WORK TEAM.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">We feel that it is appropriate to seek broader input from the ICANN Community on an approach that would fundamentally change the GNSO structure and working arrangements of the GNSO through the separation of its core functions, i.e. creating separate bodies: one for policy development management and one for the administration of the SO.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">THEREFORE, TO BE CLEAR, THE WORK TEAM IS ASKING YOU ONE QUESTION ONLY: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Do you think that the establishment of a new, additional body to address specific responsibilities – as described herein – would better serve the stakeholder groups that make up the GNSO, or not?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">The feedback received from the ICANN Community will establish the way forward for the Work Team regarding our work on this high-level GNSO operating principle. Any additional comments or questions you may have are welcomed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Please reply to: <a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">We take this opportunity to thank you in advance for providing our Work Team with this much needed direction.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Ray Fassett<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Chair<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">GCOT<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">1-216-426-1500 Ext 3<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> </o:smarttagtype></blockquote></div></body></html>