These pertain to outstanding issues related to the GNSO reform

Note: NCA = nomcom appointee

Issue 5 – Implementation;

NCUC favors rapid implementation of the new bicameral voting structure. We strongly support January 2009 as the time frame for starting with the new council structure, and see many costs and no benefits from deferring this. Delay will turn the current GNSO and Council into lame ducks that accomplish nothing for an extended period of time, and will sow confusion among noncommercial entities we are getting into ICANN.

We plan to develop a new charter for a NCSG in time for the Cairo meeting, where we will discuss it with ALAC and reach agreement on principles if not all the details.

In anticipation of the transition, we will be electing 6 rather than 3 Council representatives in our Fall election, knowing that the bottom 3 of the top 6 candidates will have to wait to be seated, or may not be seated.

As part of this new charter, we are developing a plan for the bottom up recognition of new constituencies within the NCSG. We have already come up with an outline of a simple 4-step process. The key to making this work is to de-link constituency recognition from the right to elect a specific number of Council seats. We believe that the NCSG member organizations should vote as a plenum for Council seats. This would more fairly reflect the will of the stakeholder group, and incent constituencies who want to elect people to the Council to conduct outreach to get new organizations to join. It also maintains an integrated communication and administrative structure among all the constituencies. It also handles more adroitly the problem of constituencies that overlap. Noncommercial groups simply cannot afford to maintain duplicate organizational overhead and duplicate procedures. We believe that noncommercial user groups have already suffered greatly from the fragmentation of noncommercial participation into NCUC and ALSs, and do not want to see that division maintained. Each constituency, however, would place a representative on the NCSG Executive Committee.