I was going to reply on the same issue. Perhaps say that people will be asked to choose either by national citizenship or residence. And add a footnote that the matter can be revisited in light of ICANN's ongoing process to looking at regional diversity. And I support the document, with thanks to Milton for much hard work. Adam At 1:03 PM +0200 11/18/08, Norbert Klein wrote: >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 >-- >If you want to know what is going on in Cambodia, >please visit us regularly - you can find something new every day: > >http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com (English) >http://kanhchoksangkum.wordpress.com (Khmer) > >PGP key-id 0x0016D0A9