new chart on structure of GNSO and ICANN

[Carlos Afonso]

At the very minimum, this is a shocking mistake. I do hope the ExCom
drafts a strong statement.

frt rgds

--c.a.

Norbert Klein wrote:
> Thanks to Robin and Carlos, this new ICANN chart got wider attention.
>
> What are we going to do? Accept this quietly? Or can our ExCom draft a
> short/quick statement and send it to the ICANN Board Chair, the ICANN CEO,
> and the GNSO Chair, saying something like "don't try to pretend to the public
> that the GNSO reform is already finished without taking our opinion into
> account?
>
> Norbert
>
> =
>
> On Thursday, 3 April 2008 09:28:02 Carlos Afonso wrote:
>
>> Interesting, there are "consumers" (NUCU) and "users" (ALAC). So, we
>> discover now that, for ICANN, ALAC constituencies do not consume! How do
>> you manage, ALACers? If they consume anything, they will be NCUC!
>>
>> Fragile structures (the strong ones, of course, are the ones with a
>> single, clear motivation -- making money; the rest... is the rest, in
>> that vision) make for fragile representation and participation.
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> Robin Gross wrote:
>>> ICANN has posted a new chart on its website to explain ICANN's structure.
>>>   http://www.icann.org/structure/
>>>
>>> The new chart is very revealing of ICANN's deference to Regi$trie$ and
>>> Regi$trar$ in the GNSO (in bold) and oddly describes NCUC as
>>> "universities/consumers".
>>>
>>> Robin
>