Hello,

A priori one would think that besides offering our own perspectives, one of the functions of the three GNSO reps ought to be to solicit views from NCUC members and convey the sense of the group within relevant GNSO discussions. I don't know what the practice and understanding was here previously, and would be interested to hear from people as to what model to follow.

Since Mary and I were added during Cairo, there's been a rather dauntingly high volume of traffic on the GNSO council list, a good deal of which pertains to possible decisions on immediate action items (see for example http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf).  One issue of presumably strong local interest concerns WHOIS and the recommendations advanced by the registries constituency, see below.  Would people have some thoughts on this that Mary, Carlos and I should be conveying?

Should we as a matter of course pass along all similar requests for constituency views and such?

Thanks,

Bill

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William J. Drake  

Senior Associate

Centre for International Governance

Graduate Institute of International and

  Development Studies

Geneva, Switzerland

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