<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div>In light of conversations I had with a couple of you over the past few days indicating a desire for a more formalized set of procedures (e.g. quarterly meetings with minutes etc), I started pondering why these suggestions seemed so alien to what I knew of the EC's history, and hence a bit hard for me and some other veterans to get their heads around. In search of some empirical grounding for that perception, I took an hour and looked through the entire available archive of of the EC list, and combined what I found with the list of participants per period. This institutional memory is below, followed by some observations and suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><b>A Five Year Snapshot of the NCUC EC</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><b><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-ec/">http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-ec/</a></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); min-height: 17px; "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b></b></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b>Current NCUC Executive Committee</b></span><br><b>
Term: 17 December 2012 - 17 December 2013</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><b>NCUC Chair:</b> William Drake</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Executive Committee Africa: Wilson Abigaba<br>
Executive Committee Asia: Norbert Klein<br>
Executive Committee Europe: Tapani Tarvainen<br>
Executive Committee North America: Edward Morris<br>
Executive Committee South America: Carlos Alberto AFONSO</p><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; "><b>Mail</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border: 3px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" style="width: 107px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; ">June 2013:</div></td><td valign="middle" style="width: 466px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; ">85 messages on budget, website, Durban, travel expenditures, resignations, brochures, CD, new member intake & MA team, EC meetings</div></td><td valign="middle" style="width: 1px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; "></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border: 3px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" style="width: 107px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; ">May 2013</td><td valign="middle" style="width: 466px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; ">42 messages on finance, Durban travel, mail lists, CD, website, lists</div></td><td valign="middle" style="width: 1px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; "><br></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="middle" style="width: 107px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; ">April 2013 </div></td><td valign="middle" style="width: 466px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; ">48 messages on CD, Beijing, Budget requests<div style="margin: 0px; "></div></td><td valign="middle" style="width: 1px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; "><br></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="middle" style="width: 107px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; ">March 2013</div></td><td colspan="2" valign="middle" style="width: 472px; margin: 0.5px; border: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128); padding: 1px; "><div style="margin: 0px; ">44 messages on CD, web hosting, new members, budget requests, website, GNSO Tool it, Beijing</div><div><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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Term: 17 December 2011 - 17 December 2012</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Interim NCUC Chair: David Cake</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Executive Committee Africa: Alex Gakuru<br>
Executive Committee Asia: David Cake<br>
Executive Committee Europe: Nuno Garcia<br>
Executive Committee North America: Brenden Kuerbis<br>
Executive Committee South America: Carlos Alberto AFONSO</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Nominating Committee Representative: Maria Farrell, Europe</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><span style="text-decoration: underline">Elected Chair </span>Konstantinos Komaitis resigned, and as the charter requires, a member of the EC (David Cake) was appointed to act as interim chair until new elections can be held.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">* GNSO Councilors are now directly elected by the membership of the <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Home"><span style="color: #797979">Noncommercial Stakeholders Group</span></a></p><div><b>Mail</b></div>
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Term: 30 October 2010 - 30 October 2011</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">NCUC Chair: Konstantinos Komaitis</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Executive Committee Africa: Alex Gakuru<br>
Executive Committee Asia: David Cake<br>
Executive Committee Europe: Cedric Laurant<br>
Executive Committee North America: Brenden Kuerbis<br>
Executive Committee South America: Carlos Affonso de Souza</p><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><b>Mail</b></p>
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Term: 30 October 2009 - 30 October 2010</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">NCUC Chair: Robin Gross</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Executive Committee Africa: Alex Gakuru<br>
Executive Committee Asia: David Cake<br>
Executive Committee Europe: Konstantinos Komaitis<br>
Executive Committee North America: Brenden Kuerbis<br>
Executive Committee South America: Carlos Affonso de Souza</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); "><b>Mail</b></p>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Europe region: Georg Grève, Free Software Foundation Europe</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Africa region: Dave Kissoondoyal, ISOC Mauritius</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Latin America/ Caribbean region: Carlos Afonso, RITS Brazil</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); ">Asia-Pacific region: Horacio Cadiz, Philippine Network Foundation</li>
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</table><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Some Observations</b></div><div><br></div><div>1. None of the below is in any way a criticism of the folks who were on the EC previous. These were simply different times, with different expectations and needs.</div><div><br></div><div>2. It is obvious that from from 2009-20012 there was rather little discussion on the EC list in terms of both volume and topical diversity. We have exchange more mail on more topics in six months than our predecessors did in five years. The level of activity underscored that the EC was not "where the action was" in terms of discussion and decision making. Back then, most of that took place on the main members list, among Councilors, or off list. Decisions were taken by rough consensus to move quickly, and generally there was no voting. Nor where there standardized EC meetings with records etc., or much focus on the bylaws more generally (although a group of us did work on them in 2009, and even more so on the NCSG charter in the same time frame). The creation of NCSG and NPOC was really a dominant, bandwidth sucking activity during at least the first half of my four years on Council, 2009-210.</div><div><br></div><div>3. While the EC list was previously rather quiet, what discussion there was was invariably collegial and relaxed. The participants were friends who'd been doing ICANN meetings together for years. In contrast, our group has comprised folks who didn't have history together and came in with very different ideas about how things should function, but were mostly seeking to make notable capacity building improvements to the constituency's function. Inevitably then, we've talked much more about many more things and have found many more occasions to disagree, sometimes in a tone that's a bit unpleasant and would probably shock any regular members who happened to look at the archive. Conversely, such instances would probably at a minim provide amusement and those folks from other stakeholder groups and silos that have historically held NCUC in low regard for whatever reasons.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Some Suggestions for Going Forward</b></div><div><br></div><div>1. Despite some ups and downs and period of strain, I think most of us still have a shared desire to make NCUC work a bit better, and that should be the focus. It'd be great if a really collegial tone could be maintained, but at least professional would do to avoid embarrassment and undermining our position. In the meanwhile, we each have project with think are important to carry forward, e.g. the website, brochure, Durban events, bylaws rewrite, etc. I remain of the view that we should try to engage members in some of these areas where possible, and that even if the teams are not always as responsive as one would like they are worth preserving and trying to grow rather than bypass. Of course volunteers' bandwidth is going to ebb and flow, but if we stick with it and try to coordinate the efforts at a minimum we make our processes more open and inclusive.</div><div><br></div><div>2. If it would please folks to move the dial away from the informality of the past and make things more standardized, I'm happy to do that. I did receive some initial push back from vets who thought excess bureaucratization was being suggested, but think we're beyond that now. So, for ex, we can do quarterly meetings, or even more. In my GNSO Took Kit Request for FY 14 (sent to this list in March), I asked for support for teleconferences, including with Adobe Connect, phone bridge, etc. I believe we will get that. So we should be able to do open or closed EC meetings (I'd prefer open) using ICANN's facilities beginning July 1. And if a situation really calls for voting rather than rough consensus, ok there's nothing to stop us from doing it that way. The bylaws refer to voting but offer no formula for its conduct.</div><div><br></div><div>In light of the responses to my message yesterday about scheduling an EC meeting, I will ask Glen whether it'd be possible to book a first one in Durban for Sat. 13th.</div><div><br></div><div>Tapani sent some initial ideas about items we might cover in a EC meeting. I would welcome any others.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></body></html>