<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Jan 12, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Balleste, Roy <<a href="mailto:rballeste@stu.edu">rballeste@stu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">To follow up:</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">2) Externally, I would be willing to participate in policy.</span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">Policy is not so much an EC function per se, but we do need to fill some holes.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">I’ve laid this out a number of times but can’t find the mail in my piles right now to just cut and paste. Anyway, there’s been an ongoing discussion (which is to say, me occasionally raising the issue on the lists and at CD meetings) about rebooting the NCUC Policy Committee that’s in our bylaws. Per previous, Council-facing work is done via NCSG PC but we could really use a place within NCUC to coordinate position statements and activities that either a) would feed into positions taken in the NCSG PC or b) be freestanding, e.g. replies to PCPs, any inputs into all the IG initiatives like the SP meeting, the CCWG, etc.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">Under the pre-NCSG bylaws, the PC comprises “our” counselors (who are now NCSG elected Councilors, but 5 are NCUC members so I guess in part “ours”) and</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;">E. Additionally, other individuals shall be invited to serve on the Constituency Policy Committee, including:</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1. Members (or their Official Representatives) who are serving on GNSO Working Groups, ICANN Advisory Committees, Presidential committees and other policy bodies (standing or ad hoc) within the ICANN process; and</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. The Constituency Representative to PIR (.ORG).</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3. Any NCUC delegates to the NCSG Executive Committee (in an <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ex officio</em> capacity).</p><div>I think we could be pretty flexible in interpreting who could be on this. The question is whether someone is willing to help make it exist and function. I’d asked Robin before if she’d be willing to chair, since she’d like to do more substantive than admin work after two years running NCSG; would be good to hear from her. If not, Roy maybe you could fill this role?</div><div><br></div><div>We do need something here—we literally do not have a formal mechanism for the constituency to say anything about policy!</div><div><br></div><div>If we did this a new list could be put up and the archive of the old one merged in <a href="http://mailman.ctyme.com/listinfo/pc-ncuc">http://mailman.ctyme.com/listinfo/pc-ncuc</a></div><div><br></div><div>Or if we’re unable to get this together, another option Roy could be to rep us on the NCSG PC alongside Stephanie and the Councilors. But in this context you’d be doing less to get our central mechanisms functioning…</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>BD</div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div></body></html>