24 August Comment Deadline: Bylaw Amendments Related to Restructuring of the GNSO

[Robin Gross]

Dear all,

The comment period on the proposed ICANN Bylaws Amendments Related to  
GNSO Restructuring ends 24 August and there are quite a few knocks to  
noncommercial users in ICANN's proposal.   So we need to draft and  
submit some constituency comments on these proposed bylaws  
amendments.   For example, ICANN proposes to give the commercial  
stakeholders 4 delegates to the Nominating Committee, while giving  
the noncommercial users only 1 delegate to the Nominating Committee.   
The Nominating Committee is important because it selects key  
appointments to ICANN, like the Board of Directors, GNSO Councilors,  
and others.   The bias toward commercial views in the proposed bylaws  
needs to pointed out in this comment period.

If anyone would like to volunteer to create a small drafting team to  
develop a constituency position to submit on the proposed GNSO bylaws  
amendments, please let me know.   This must be submitted one week  
from today, so time is short.  Thanks very much!

More info:
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public- 
comment-200908.html#gnso-restructure

Best,
Robin

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Bylaw Amendments Related to Restructuring of the GNSO Council  
(Version 2)
Open:
3 August 09
Closed:
24 August 09
Explanation/Background:

Implementation of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO)  
Review/Improvements process requires the amendment of a substantial  
number of the ICANN Bylaws to reflect new GNSO structures, processes  
and mechanisms. In particular, a specific package of draft Bylaws and  
additional Staff recommendations has been developed for Public review  
and comment so that the ICANN Board can move forward with Bylaw  
amendments to seat the new GNSO Council by the annual ICANN meeting  
in Seoul, Korea. Approving the Bylaws amendments is a key step toward  
seating a newly structured Council consistent with the  
recommendations of the ICANN Board Governance Committee.

An initial set of Bylaws amendments (Version 1) were posted for  
public comment on 30 June 2009, reflecting the work product of a GNSO  
Council Restructure Drafting Team (consisting of the entire GNSO  
Council and additional GNSO community members), and additional Staff  
recommendations. The Bylaw Amendments (Version 2) [PDF, 256K] being  
posted for public comment today are based upon the 30 June 2009  
initial version and include additional amendments that reflect  
guidance received by Staff from the Board's Structural Improvements  
Committee (SIC) as well as other issues identified by Staff in its  
efforts to develop Bylaws that are internally consistent and conform  
to the principles of the BGC Report.

The package consists of three documents.

•  The first document is a side-by-side comparison showing the  
existing Bylaws, revised and redlined in the left column, and clean  
text (Version 2) in the right column: http://www.icann.org/en/general/ 
proposed-gnso-council-bylaw-amendments-comparison-31jul09-en.pdf  
[PDF, 256K]

•  The second document identifies the key differences between the  
draft Bylaws developed by the GNSO through its Restructure Drafting  
Team and this Version 2 text: http://www.icann.org/en/general/ 
proposed-gnso-council-bylaw-amendments-notes-comments-03aug09-en.pdf  
[PDF, 76K]

•  The third document is additional background and explanation of  
Staff's rationale for certain proposed amendments included in Version  
2: http://www.icann.org/en/general/proposed-gnso-council-bylaw- 
amendments-explanation03aug09-en.pdf [PDF, 76K]

Staff Responsible: Robert Hoggarth

Deadline and How to Submit Comments:

The Staff is opening a 21-day public consultation forum, from 3  
August 2009 through 24 August 2009, and invites community comments on  
this topic.

To submit comments: Comments on the document are welcome via email at  
gnso-council-draft2 at icann.org. This public forum will be open through  
23 August 2009.

To view comments: An archive of all comments received will be  
publicly posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-council-draft2/.

For a copy of the public Announcement of this forum please see http:// 
www.icann.org/en/announcements/en/announcements/announcement-03aug09- 
en.htm. That Announcement provides inks to a number of documents that  
give some useful context and background regarding the issues in this  
forum.

Is it clear to you what this comment period covers? Do you have all  
the information you need to respond? Please click "More information  
please" below to email I
Staff member responsible: Robert Hoggarth | More information please
Announcement | Comments | Add a comment | Summary/analysis of comments

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