ICANN Must Account for its Math

[Brenden Kuerbis]

Hi Norbert,  all,

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Norbert Klein<nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:
> Excellent math research - where does it go, beyond our internal NCUC list?
> Do we have a PUBLIC wiki or something where facts can be added, updated
> etc., and one can invite and direct other people (who many not be readers of
> the NCUC-DISCUSS list) to see these facts?
>

I'm not quite sure I'm following the need for a wiki, but I do agree
we could do a better job of publicizing things like this.  To that
end, I encourage you and any member to take this content and use the
new NCUC website.  Any registered member can blog there, it is indexed
by search engines regularly, and gets distributed via other channels
like Twitter.  So write a blog article and spread the word!

Best,

Brenden

> One of the problem which led to the present crisis is - I think - that we
> were not organized well enough (like other interests were, who have other
> resources) to spread our side of the story as it developed.
>
>
> Norbert
>
> =
>
> Robin Gross wrote:
>
> The Facts.
> Commercial Stakeholder Group Membership.
> According to the Business Constituency's website, they have 44 members.
> According to the IPR Constituency's website, they have 18 members.
> According to the ISP Constituency's website, (they don't publish membership
> lists and haven't had a post to their email list in 2009).  But, according
> the 2006 LSE Report (the last documented account of the ISP Constituency's
> membership, they have 42 members.
> So if we add the membership of these 3 commercial constituencies together,
> we get  total of 104 members in the Commercial Stakeholder Group, who will
> elect 6 GNSO Councilors.
> Contrast:
> NCUC has 142 members but noncommercial users will not be allowed to elect
> any of our new GNSO Councilors on the claim that we are too small to deserve
> to elect all 6 GNSO Councilors.
> Did anyone from ICANN staff/SIC do any math before they ruled non-commercial
> users are too small to deserve to elect all 6 GNSO Councilors?
>   NCSG membership = 142 members (allowed 3 elected representatives)
>   CSG membership = 104 members (allowed 6 representatives)
> What was the decision-making process that led to ICANN's determination that
> noncommercial users are too small?  Seriously, we deserve to know how they
> arrived at that decision and upon what facts the decision was based - it is
> our elected representation that they are meddling with.  ICANN will have to
> answer this.
>
> IP JUSTICE
> Robin Gross, Executive Director
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