Don't know if everyone has seen the below, which is leading to some interesting exchanges in GNSO. The board says a recommendation should be submitted no later than 24 January 2009, so the time frame is pretty compressed with holidays etc. BD Begin forwarded message: > From: "Bruce Tonkin" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: December 19, 2008 5:00:54 AM CST > To: "Council GNSO" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [council] ICANN Board resolution from meeting of 11 Dec 08 > > > Hello All, > > The only adopted Board resolution from the Board teleconference > relevant > to the GNSO last week was: > > From: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-11dec08.htm > > Role of Individual Users in GNSO - Briefing and Action > > Approved Resolution > > Whereas, the Board has received varying recommendations on registrant > and user involvement in the GNSO, and the issue of how to incorporate > the legitimate interests of individual Internet users in constructive > yet non-duplicative ways remains an open issue that affects GNSO > restructuring. > > Resolved, (2008-12-11-02) the Board requests that members of the GNSO > community work with members of the ALAC/At-Large community and > representatives of potential new "non-commercial" constituencies to > jointly develop a recommendation for the composition and > organizational > structure of a Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group that does not > duplicate > the ALAC and its supporting structures, yet ensures that the gTLD > interests of individual Internet users (along with the broader > non-commercial community) are effectively represented within the GNSO. > This recommendation should be submitted no later than 24 January 2009 > for consideration by the Board. > > Regards, > Bruce Tonkin > > *********************************************************** William J. Drake Senior Associate Centre for International Governance Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland [log in to unmask] New book: Governing Global Electronic Networks, http://tinyurl.com/5mh9jj ***********************************************************