Greetings,

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Alex

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, William
Drake<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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