Hi, As I say, lots of people live abroad...here, in addition to the two mentioned by Norbert, we have Adam (UK) in Japan, me (US) in Switzerland (and a member of the Euralo board). For that matter, Milton's a half-time European now. NC folks should be free to stand and free to elect unconstrained by passports. It's 2008. Bill On Nov 18, 2008, at 8:16 PM, Adam Peake wrote: > 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 *********************************************************** William J. Drake Senior Associate Centre for International Governance Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland [log in to unmask] ***********************************************************