I have just read the summary report of the ICANN Board’s
Governance Committee (BGC) on the possibility of re-structuring the GNSO. This
is basically the Board committee’s response to the reform recommendations
of the London School of Economics report.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/summary-draft-wg-bgc-gnso-improvements-18jun07.pdf
This report shows that the leadership of ICANN is taking the
LSE report seriously and proposing substantive changes in the way the GNSO
operates. This is good news. Since NCUC is part of the GNSO, this process will
have a major and direct impact on us. For example, it could pave the way for
the consolidation of existing constituencies, addition of new constituencies,
changes in GNSO voting arrangements.
I will add discussion of this report to our
--MM