Staff summary of charter public comments

[William Drake]

Hi,

Now available for your reading pleasure at http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/pdfxiUwB0LQJc.pdf 
.  Especially enjoyable is section 1, "The perceived failure by ICANN  
to accept the V-NCSG Charter."  "Perceived" is a leitmotif; NCUC's  
members and supporters have all just imagined the problems.   
Ultimately, the rationale for rejecting NCUC's NCSG charter comes down  
to this, "The S-NCSG follows the Board‟s direction that the  
Constituency is the primary organizational unit within SGs and, as  
such, they are its only legitimate members."  However, this apparently  
applies only to our charter, as the Registry and Registrar group  
charters do away with "the primary organizational unit within SGs."

Also of interest is this nugget:

"Finally, although the majority of comments were strongly in support  
of returning to the original NCUC Charter version, ALAC favored the  
SIC‟s NCSG Charter that, “best meets the aims of the new GNSO Model  
and the Boards criteria, which we support, and believe is (with the  
additional version changes as at July 19th ) being essentially met.”  
Continuing in this vein, ALAC noted, “Maturity and development of the  
new design GNSO and specifically the parity and viability of the User  
House will benefit greatly with the „fresh start‟ this Charter in  
our opinion provides and it should be noted that in it we can see that  
the opinions and views brought forward in our processes, activities  
and meetings on the matter have been recognised, heard and  
considered.” "

Which is interesting since there's been almost no discussion within  
ALAC since it's last statement on a prior version of the NCUC  
proposed, http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/msg00020.html 
, which noted that there was no ALAC consensus on the matter.  It is  
rather unclear on what grounds staff can depict Cheryl's personal  
statement as a collective ALAC position, other than political  
convenience.

Best,

Bill



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William J. Drake
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
   Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
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