MM, I was on travel with nearly no access to email for a week, so my reply is a bit late. Looks OK to me, except the phrase in 2.2.2 item 1 which says "1. Political organizations whose primary purpose is to hold government office and/or ct government officials;" Is "ct" short for "certain"? I think we need to be especially clear here. In Brazil all political parties are formally NGOs, for example. frt rgds --c.a. Milton L Mueller wrote: > Dear members: > > Attached is the draft charter for the Noncommercial Stakeholders Group > that some of us in the Executive Committee have been working on. > > I'd like to send this to the Board in a week or so, so if you are > interested in the future structure of the NCSG please review it and > voice your approval, or propose modifications. > > It tries to follow the basic framework we have been discussing, but with > some modifications based on our post-Cairo discussions. > > We've raised the threshold for constituency formation a bit; instead of > any 5 members, the minimum level of support will be EITHER 3 > organizational + 3 individual members, OR 10 individual members. > > In order to prevent gaming the constituency structure, we've also > imposed a limit on the number of constituencies any member can join: 3. > > > > Attached as a Word doc. If there are a lot of proposed amendments and > things get complicated I will put it into Google docs or something. > > --MM > >