At 9:36 AM -0400 3/21/07, Milton Mueller wrote:
>For those of you going to Lisbon:
>
>At 11:00 on Tuesday, during our constituency meeting, Board candidate
>Bruce Tonkin will come to visit us. Bruce is the current chair of the
>GNSO Council and is a candidate for the GNSO Board seat. The opportunity
>to meet with him will be invaluable so I urge you to be there.


Bruce is *the* candidate for the board seat, so unless there are a 
majority of abstains, I think he's the next board member.

Very interested to hear his comments on IDNs.  If he thinks ICANN 
should do more to bring in language communities into the policy 
discussions. GNSO seem's a little too English speaking/western to be 
discussing issues that'll primarily impact non-English 
speaking/non-western people.


>At 5:00 on that day, we have (tentatively!) scheduled a joint meeting
>with ALAC, to discuss the LSE report and the general topic of Civil
>Society integration within ICANN. The 5:00 time is still tentative
>because of the complexities of ALAC at the moment, but I should know the
>answer by the time we meet Tuesday morning.


Something about this bothers me -- seems to be an assumption that 
ALAC represents civil society/non-profit interests so there's a 
natural partnership with NCUC.  Most current members of the ALAC are 
civil society oriented (and many of us know them well and work with 
them in other activities), but I am not convinced it's healthy for 
ALAC to align itself with one sector.  Users are business people, 
civil servants, anyone (every-woman).   But I guess it's up to ALAC 
to decide if user = non-commercial.

Civil Society and NGO/NPO interests are most definitely under 
represented in ICANN.  But it's not clear to me that ALAC is or 
should be defining itself as representatives of this non-profit 
sector.  But this a discussion for ALAC lists not NCUC perhaps.


>Additionally, I am trying to arrange informal meetings with other
>constituencies -- especially the registrars & registries -- to discuss
>the next steps in the Whois policy. Contact me in Lisbon for news of
>those meetings.

I would like to try and join this.

Thanks,

Adam