I support the flexible standard, too. I only said citizenship because

someone (was it Robin?) told me that ICANN required it. But what the

heck, let's put the more flexible standard in there and put the onus on

them to make us take it out. Bottom-up self governance and all....

--MM

-----Original Message-----

From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC-

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Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:04 AM

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Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Draft NCSG petition, please review

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

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