I support the flexible standard, too. I only said citizenship because
someone (was it Robin?) told me that ICANN required it. But what the
heck, let's put the more flexible standard in there and put the onus on
them to make us take it out. Bottom-up self governance and all....

--MM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Norbert Klein
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Draft NCSG petition, please review
> 
> On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:50:49 William Drake wrote:
> > ,,,
> >   One question I do wonder
> > about though concerns 3.4.5, Regional diversity's criteria,  "as
> > determined by national citizenship."   Lots of folks don't live in
> > their home countries, so perhaps a more flexible approach would be
> > desirable going forward.  Why not "as determined by national
> > citizenship or residency"?  Is there a history of discussion and
> > decisions on this from before I joined NCUC that I'm not aware of?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Bill
> 
> 
> Thanks, Bill, to raise the regional diversity criteria - I take up
this
> point
> only from your mail. I had formerly also suggested that this needs
> clarification (also in view of the fact that other ICANN structures -
for
> example the Board - may have their own regional diversity criteria),
as we
> have among ourselves (at least) two cases where this may be important:
> 
> Having worked 18 years in Cambodia (and my Internet related work dates
> back to
> 1994 in Cambodia, which I did mainly in cooperation and with advice
and
> assistance from others in Asia), I would feel very strange if - for
> whatever
> reason - the NCSG would consider me according to the "national
> citizenship"
> criterion as a European.
> And Mary Wong, who is now a GNSO Council member, send by the NCUC,
might
> at
> some other time fulfill some function for the NCSG as an Asian (though
she
> is
> a resident of North America).
> 
> I think your suggestion  "as determined by national citizenship or
> residency"
> would leave us most flexibility, and I support your suggestion.
> 
> 
> Norbert
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