Carlos,

Please note that I have earlier proposed to the
President's Strategy Committee that a Civil Society
Supporting Organization be formed that would include
both the NCUC and the ICANN-accredited At-Large
"structures".  

My comments were posted to this url: 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/psc/msg00001.html

A caucus doesn't put your members on the ICANN Board;
a Supporting Organization does.

Perhaps now is the time to discuss the possibility of
seceding from the GNSO (in much the same manner as the
ccTLD community did).

Best regards,
Danny

--- Carlos Afonso <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Well, Danny, it points to the suggestion we have
> been discussing (and I 
> have been insisting on from time to time) of having
> a single non-profit 
> civil society caucus within ICANN, replacing (or
> subsuming, or 
> encompassing, or synthesizing...) what are now NCUC
> and ALAC. To my 
> knowledge, NCUC is far more sympathetic to the idea
> than ALAC.
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> Danny Younger wrote:
> >>From the LSE Report:
> > 
> > 4.35 In tandem with Recommendation 5 above that
> > individuals' and organizations' primary membership
> > should be of ICANN as a whole rather than of
> specific
> > constituencies, we suggest creating a simpler
> > Constituency structure with only three main
> divisions:
> > 
> > -- Registration, including the current Registries
> and
> > Registrars Constituencies;
> > -- Business Users, including the current Business,
> > Intellectual Property and ISP Constituencies; and
> > -- Civil Society, including the current NCUC, but
> also
> > ordinary domain holders, and possibly individuals
> > currently represented via the At Large Advisory
> > Committee of ICANN.
> > 
> > -----------------------
> > 
> > Do NCUC members support this recommendation?  
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> 
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