Cheryl It's hard to reply to your message because it's embedded in a Word doc. Please put them in a regular email in the future. This is an email list that is archived. Here are my responses. Mary Wong: >NCUC would prefer that for continuity reasons, seated Councilors should >retain their positions. It may be that, as new Council seats open up, NCUC >will fill them either according to the order of the recent election >results, or some other way. > Cheryl Oreston >The "NCUC" has not formed an intent or a preference. There was not >consensus at the meeting, and there was not a quorum. This should be >discussed. I propose that, once the new structure is in place and the new >constituencies are included, the new (and now non-existent) Non-Commercial >Stakeholder Group (NCSG) convene (online) and hold elections for all six >GNSO councilor seats. There was consensus among everyone but you, as usual. There is little room for debate here. NCUC now exists, NCSG doesn't, until we (NCUC) create it. Under the NCUC charter we are required to elect GNSO Councilors for 2 year terms every year. That election has been held, and the Councilors will serve their 2-yr terms. End of story. New members will get to elect the next three Councilors as early as June 2009 (possibly), and they will, starting in October 2010 or June 2010 elect all 6 Councilors. There is absolutely no reason for us to waste time inserting another election in there. It is not persuasive to say that the 6-12 month gap between new, full NCSG elections in October 2009 and the ones Cheryl wants us to have in May 2009 constitutes some kind of a big deal. We have a lot of better things to do than disrupt continuity, punish people who volunteered to stand this time (GNSO Council is a hell of a lot of work) and spend time on bureaucracy. --MM > -----Original Message----- > From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cheryl Preston > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:53 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Cairo minutes responses and discussion points > > Attached are my comments about what was discussed at the Cairo meeting, > part I. I raise several discussion issues. I will send part II when it > is finished. > > Thanks, > > Cheryl B. Preston > Edwin M. Thomas > Professor of Law > J. Reuben Clark Law School > Brigham Young University > 434 JRCB > Provo, UT 84602 > (801) 422-2312 > [log in to unmask]