As usual, the ICANN policy staff did not incorporate a single  
suggestion from NCUC in its recent Bylaws revision where we submitted  
public comments.  They still want to give the Commercial  
Constituencies 4 delegates to the Nominating Committee and  
Noncommercial Users are only allowed a single delegate.   Favoritism  
of commercial users is still baked into ICANN's structure in most  
places.

They didn't even incorporate a very small, minor, text change that we  
requested that only would have recognized that there are "other"  
impacts in this world to consider besides only "financial" impacts in  
policy development.  this was our request:

"We believe in the "collection of information" for a Constituency  
Statement that (iv) should be amended to include "other" impacts  
besides financial impacts on a constituency. Since NCUC is not  
working for an economic interest, most often our concerns are not  
"financial impacts" so a constituency statement should be allowed to  
consider those other impacts and not discouraged from considering  
non- financial impacts as the proposed text implies. Therefore, we  
propose 7d. (iv) be re-written as: "An analysis of how the issue  
would affect the constituency or Stakeholder Group, including any  
financial or other impact on the constituency or Stakeholder Group;".

But unfortunately, comments from noncommercial users don't make their  
way into ICANN policy staff documents.   It seems the only reason to  
send in comments to ICANN at this point is so that others can see the  
extent to which ICANN policy staff follows its own agenda.

Here are the staff's revised bylaws:
   http://www.icann.org/en/general/archive-bylaws/bylaws-27aug09.pdf

Robin


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