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The SIC charter was 100% drafted internally by staff (presumably at Roberto's direction).<div><br></div><div>There is not 1 word in the SIC charter that was contributed by NCUC or its members.</div><div><br></div><div>We cannot pretend that the SIC charter was some kind of compromise that reached the middle ground of competing agendas. It was the total displacement of the consensus charter with the staff/SIC written charter. I do not plan to belabor this point, unless we hear these ridiculous claims to the contrary as was done here.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 18, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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; "><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Very good reply, Bill. I like the way you got tough with him on the “top-down” question.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Incredible that this guy can rationalize his actions as “consultative” when NO efforts were EVER made by SIC to contact anyone in NCUC involved in developing our charter. And he still refuses to acknowledge that the enormous public comment response we got – on an obscure charter issue, for God’s sake – actually means something.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">--MM<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 4pt; "><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" tabindex="-1"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:<st1:personname w:st="on"><a href="mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a></st1:personname>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><st1:personname w:st="on">William Drake</st1:personname><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, October 18, 2009 5:32 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on"><a href="mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a></st1:personname><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] "NCUC opposes constituencies"</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">More<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><st1:personname w:st="on"><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">William Drake</span></font></st1:personname><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>></span></font><o:p></o:p></div></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">October 18, 2009 11:18:41 AM GMT+02:00</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">Roberto Gaetano <<a href="mailto:roberto@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">roberto@icann.org</a>></span></font><o:p></o:p></div></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; ">"'At-Large Worldwide'" <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>>, "'ALAC Working List'" <<a href="mailto:alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>></span></font><o:p></o:p></div></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Re: [At-Large] "placeholder" reps not placeholders?</font></b><o:p></o:p></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Hi Roberto,<br><br>Thanks for your reply, glad we're talking about this stuff, helpful.<br><br>On Oct 18, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Roberto Gaetano wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Bill,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">We might have a communication problem.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">What I meant, and please correct me if I am wrong, is that:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">- the NCUC was against the creation of constituencies as groups that had<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">automatic voting seat(s) in the Council<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">- groups did not see any interest in doing the work of creating<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituencies if they were guaranteed no seats in the Council<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br>If that is what you meant, then yes indeed we have a communication problem. You wrote,<br><br>"But the main point for the SIC to maintain the concept of constituency, against the open opposition of NCUC," which sounded to me like you were saying the main point for the SIC is to maintain the concept of constituency, against the open opposition of NCUC. Sorry for my confusion.<br><br>Bear in mind, I'e been hearing this kind of thing for months now, including from board members in MC, and there's list traffic this morning indicating that others here were not clear on the point. So especially at a time when some ALAC folks are proposing constituencies, it's a cause for concern when someone in your position of authority appears to be saying NCUC opposes the whole concept. That would be the RySG, not us. (BTW, why did SIC ok RySG eliminating constituencies in their charter? I never understood the rationale for not having harmonized structures across SGs, and it makes the misimpression about NCUC's charter which explicitly provides for constituencies seem all the more odd.)<br><br>Entirely separate from the principal of constituencies are two issues:<br><br>*Whether council seats should be hard wired. On this we agree with the SIC, as you know. I understand there are folks here who feel differently, and say nobody will want to do the work of launching a constituency if they don't automatically get a council seat. I'm not convinced that's true---I know I and others I've talked to wouldn't feel that's necessarily a barrier, if per the NCUC proposed charter constituencies could run candidates in an open election and in all likelihood get one that way---but I understand the concern and that's a design issue we ought to be able to talk through and build confidence.<br><br>*Whether constituencies should be formed soon under the SIC/staff transitional charter, rather than waiting a little while until a mutually satisfactory final arrangement can be arrived at. We remain concerned that doing it under the SIC/staff version would lock that in and make a joint review and revision impossible. The timing here is up to you folks on the board, not us. We'd prefer to resolve things with you ASAP, and constituency launches could then proceed as soon as there are viable proposals. Unfortunately, I think NCUC folks have contributed to confusion on this point by saying the review should happen within a year, which some have processed as meaning we want to wait a year before anything can be launched. Within a year doesn't mean in a year, we can do this as soon as you're ready.<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Is this a fair representation of the reality, yes or no? If no, I apologize,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">as I did really miss something important. If, on the other hand, the answer<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">is yes, I stand behind my whole post.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The question, as I understood it, was to find a balance that could have<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">taken into account to the maximum extent possible these two different and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">apparently radically opposed positions. The fact that the solution is being<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">shot from both sides confirms that it was not an easy problem, and that<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">positions were really opposed. The point is now where we go from here. Can<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">we discuss and see if this is a solution that can work or not?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br>I sure hope so, and we are looking forward to meeting with the board and getting the process started. But let's make sure we understand the positions and the differences between them accurately, that'll help facilitate things a productive dialogue.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">To make statements that imply that SIC has not read the NCUC charters is not<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br>Didn't mean to imply this, but rather that if you believe NCUC opposes constituencies as you appeared to be saying, you might look again at the NCUC charter which endorses constituencies and suggests mechanisms for their formation and collaboration.<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">We have two possibilities, one is to get together and to make it<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">work, the other one is to insist that the bad and ugly SIC has imposed a<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">top-down solution against the will of the masses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br>I didn't characterize the SIC as bad and ugly. It is unquestionably true though that the SIC imposed a solution that was opposed by NCUC's 80 organizational and 87 individual members and a wide array of non-member supporters and was supported by 3 people. If you don't like calling this top down, ok, give me another term for something done by the board over the strenuous opposition of the community in question. I'm not hung up on language, just facts.<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I see these as alternative<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">positions, for the simple fact that accepting and propagating the latter<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">means not to have understood (or to pretend not having understood) the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">amount of consultation, negotiation and compromise that went into the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">solution, which is the exact opposite of having imposed a top-down view.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br>Unfortunately, the consultation, negotiation and compromise didn't really involve NCUC. But we can still do that, and very much look forward to working with you in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and beyond to arrive at a lasting solution that is supported by the actually existing NC community.<br><br>All the best,<br><br>Bill<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on">William Drake</st1:personname><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch">mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Sent: Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:58<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">To: Roberto Gaetano<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Cc: At-Large Worldwide; ALAC Working List<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Subject: Re: [At-Large] "placeholder" reps not placeholders?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Hi Roberto,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">May I just correct once again one whopping bit of bad info, please.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Roberto Gaetano wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Beau,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">By the way, is it true what I heard that the three newly appointed<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">GNSO people have now been hard-wired in to two-year terms? I don't<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">really see a constituency model working under those circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Who's going to join a constituency if they have to wait<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">two years to<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">be able to directly elect a representative? No consumer group I am<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">aware of is going to want to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I think that we will need to clarify many things in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:city>, one of<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">which is the reason for certain decisions of the SIC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">For instance, the SIC has decided, after long discussion,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">not to have<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">an automatic link between creation of a constituency and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">establishment<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">of a seat in the Council. The reasons against this position include<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">what you correctly point out, i.e. that it will be more<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">difficult to<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">get people's interest if there's no immediate<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">representation in terms<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">of voting rights.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">However, there are also reasons for taking this approach.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">One of these<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">is that we have to avoid the "frivolous" creation of constituencies<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">for the simple purpose of getting a vote. A bit like create empty<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">shells as registrars to have a higher firing power for getting<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">valuable names.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Another<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">observation is that in the "old" council it was exactly the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">fact that<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the creation of a new constituency would have altered the voting<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">balance that de facto prevented the creation of any new<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituency<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">in 10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">But the main point for the SIC to maintain the concept of<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituency, against the open opposition of NCUC, but to keep it<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">without an automatic<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">NCUC is NOT and has NEVER been against the concept of<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituencies, period. I do not understand what the purpose<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">would be in telling ALAC people something about NCUC that is<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">patently untrue, but it really does not facilitate trust<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">building and the collegial resolution of the issue. The<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">charter NCUC submitted, and which you set aside without<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">comment, has an page of clear language about the formation<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">and operation of constituencies in Section 2.3.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/en/improvements/ncsg-petition" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/en/improvements/ncsg-petition</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-charter.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> I would encourage you to read it if you have not. A few<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">key bits of note include:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">*Constituencies are self-defined groupings of NCSG members organized<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">around some shared policy goals (e.g. consumer protection, privacy);<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">shared identity (e.g., region or country of origin, gender, language<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">group); type of organization (e.g., research networks, philanthropic<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">foundations) - or any other grouping principle that might affect<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">members' stance on domain names policy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">*There is no requirement that NCSG members join a constituency.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">*When at least 3 organizational members or at least 10<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">individual NCSG<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">members volunteer to join the Constituency on the public list within<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">two months of the publication of the notification of intent the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">prospective Constituency becomes eligible to schedule a<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">meeting (which<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">can be either in person or online).<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">*The eligible constituency holds a public meeting(s) to draft a<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">charter and appoint an official representative of the constituency.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The meeting(s) can be online but must be open to observation by the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">general public.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">*The proposed constituency charter is submitted to the NCSG Policy<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Committee for ratification.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">*Once accepted by the PC the constituency application will be<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">sent to<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the ICANN Board for approval. The Board shall also serve as the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">vehicle for appeals to NCSG decisions on the recognition of a<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituency.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">*Constituencies have a right to: 1.<span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Place one voting<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">representative on<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the Policy Committee; 2.<span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Delegate members to GNSO<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">working groups and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">task forces; 3.<span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Issue statements on GNSO Policy<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Development Processes<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">which are included in the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">official NCSG response, but marked as constituency positions,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">and not<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">necessarily the position of NCSG as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I do not know how this possibly can be characterized as<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">opposition to<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the concept of a constituency.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The principal difference with the charter you've imposed on us, as<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">we've explained time and again, is that we do not think it<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">wise to set<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">up constituencies as purely self-regarding silos that compete<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">against<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">each other for council seats, recognition and influence, and thereby<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">spend their time fighting and jockeying for position rather than<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">working together to advance noncommercial public interest<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">in ICANN. We think it is better for constituencies to<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">collaborate in<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">an integrated community. Hence, we did not think it sensible<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">to hard<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">wire council seats (which would get absurd if the number of<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituencies exceeds six, as it hopefully will...we're glad you<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">agreed on this), and instead suggested that GNSO Council<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Representatives be elected directly by all NCSG members in an annual<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">SG-wide vote. To secure a council seat, a constituency on consumer<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">protection, registrants, privacy, gender, freedom of speech or<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">whatever else would simply have to be a vibrant group that puts<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">forward a candidate and vision that others find persuasive. Given<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">that noncommercial people tend to share certain broad values and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">priorities, I'm hard pressed to imagine that, for example, a solid<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">consumer constituency that actually comprises noncommercial<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">actors and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">advocates for the public interest would have a hard time getting<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">support from people who care about privacy, speech, and so on. So<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">it'd be a matter of persuading colleagues rather than having a<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">birthright fiefdom within which one does one's own thing and ignores<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">everyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">We understand that questions have been raised about voting<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">formula and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">whether it might make sense to put in place mechanisms to<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">prevent the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">'capture' of the council, and we've said we're open to viable<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">suggestions on that score. Have yet to hear one. One might add that<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">if NCUC's proposed charter had been approved and constituency<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">formation were made as easy as we'd hoped, the NCUC itself<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">would have<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">ceased to exist, and those of our current 80 organizational and 87<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">individual members who wanted to off and form constituencies on<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">privacy, gender, or whatever else would have done so. So there'd be<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">no NCUC to be capturing anything in the first place. In contrast,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">under the SIC charter, NCUC would be nuts to disband, inter alia<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">because it'd leave our members homeless, especially the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Hard to see how that would be good for ICANN.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">voting power, against the obvious concerns of who wants to build new<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituencies, is the leit-motiv that has guided the whole<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">process<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">review: move the focus away from the vote, which is by its nature<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">divisive,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">onto the consensus building process.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">New constituencies will not have the right to appoint their "own"<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">councillors, but will have the right to participate in WGs<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">and other<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">policy<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">making processes and bodies, will have support from ICANN staff and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">resources to self-organize, will be able to participate<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">with their own<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">representatives in the Executive Committee of the NCSG, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">In simple words, what we have tried to do is to create a balance and<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">hopefully a possible way to coexist and, in time, to collaborate,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">for all<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the different components of the wide and diverse non-commercial<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">internet<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">community. Somebody on this list has spoken about<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">"reconsideration"<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Board's decision. This is surely possible. But what I would<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">propose<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">is to<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">try to discuss and understand if what the SIC has proposed<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">can work in<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">practice, although it is not going to be perfect for anybody, before<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">shooting it down and start all over again. This discussion<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">is for me<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">one of<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the main priorities, if not the first priority altogether,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:city>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">which<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">as you all know will mark the end of my term as Director.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The ALAC and the NCUC are two big parts of this picture, the only<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">organized<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">bodies in ICANN so far (for non-commercial users), I personally<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">think that<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the first step can be to have a joint discussion in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:city>. Bill's<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">proposal<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">of meeting in an event that is not only work, but also<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">social, goes<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">in this<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">sense, methinks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Here we agree. And I think finding common ground will be a<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">lot easier<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">if ALAC colleagues are not laboring under the false impression that<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">NCUC somehow wants to prevent them or other from forming<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">constituencies, hence the above. Our main concern has been that we<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">first have an opportunity to work out a final, non-divisive charter<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">with the board, after which constituency launches could begin in<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">earnest. In contrast, launching constituencies under the SIC<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">charter<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">would likely lock us into that framework and engender the very<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">fragmentation the meeting is intended to help overcome.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Bill<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; -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: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="apple-style-span"><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; ">***********************************************************</span></font></span><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><br><span class="apple-style-span">William J. Drake</span><br><span class="apple-style-span">Senior Associate</span><br><span class="apple-style-span">Centre for International Governance</span><br><span class="apple-style-span">Graduate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of <st1:placename w:st="on">International</st1:placename></st1:place><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and</span><br><span class="apple-style-span"> Development Studies</span><br><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span class="apple-style-span">Geneva</span></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></span></st1:place><br><span class="apple-style-span"><a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a></span><br><span class="apple-style-span">www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html</span><br><span class="apple-style-span">***********************************************************</span><br><br><br></span></font><o:p></o:p></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></span></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></div></body></html>