At the very minimum, this is a shocking mistake. I do hope the ExCom 
drafts a strong statement.

frt rgds

--c.a.

Norbert Klein wrote:
> Thanks to Robin and Carlos, this new ICANN chart got wider attention. 
> 
> What are we going to do? Accept this quietly? Or can our ExCom draft a 
> short/quick statement and send it to the ICANN Board Chair, the ICANN CEO, 
> and the GNSO Chair, saying something like "don't try to pretend to the public 
> that the GNSO reform is already finished without taking our opinion into 
> account?
> 
> Norbert
> 
> =
> 
> On Thursday, 3 April 2008 09:28:02 Carlos Afonso wrote:
> 
>> Interesting, there are "consumers" (NUCU) and "users" (ALAC). So, we 
>> discover now that, for ICANN, ALAC constituencies do not consume! How do 
>> you manage, ALACers? If they consume anything, they will be NCUC!
>>
>> Fragile structures (the strong ones, of course, are the ones with a 
>> single, clear motivation -- making money; the rest... is the rest, in 
>> that vision) make for fragile representation and participation.
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> Robin Gross wrote:
>>> ICANN has posted a new chart on its website to explain ICANN's structure.
>>>   http://www.icann.org/structure/
>>>
>>> The new chart is very revealing of ICANN's deference to Regi$trie$ and 
>>> Regi$trar$ in the GNSO (in bold) and oddly describes NCUC as 
>>> "universities/consumers".
>>>
>>> Robin
>