thanks bill look forward to working with folk on this karen At 12:50 02/06/2009, William Drake wrote: >Hi Karen, > >I wrote to Glen asking her to add you and >Konstantinos to the registrants rights drafting >team & listserv, you should get notice from her >shortly. So I believe the team is now > >Avri Doria - GNSO Chair -NCA >Chuck Gomes - GNSO Vive Chair Registry c. >Tim Ruiz - Registrar c. >Stéphane van Gelder - Registrar c. >Adrian Kinderis - Registrar c. >William Drake - NCUC >Baudouin Schombe NCUC >Karen Banks NCUC >Konstantinos Komaitis NCUC >Alan Greenberg - ALAC >Daniel Monastersky - ALAC (LACRALO) >Beau Brendler - ALAC >Evan Leibovitch ALAC > >In response to your question and others raised >by Konstantinos privately, the group has yet to >get started, there's been no traffic on the >list, so there are no documents or established >work patterns to point to. But things will have >to get going soon. If I recall correctly (don't >have access to everything here) we have 30 days >from Board approval of the RAA amendments on 21 >May to put together the team/mandate and until >end July to draft a charter, something like >that. I'm copying Avri as well as Alan, one of >them can undoubtedly clarify. Also copying >other ALAC folks who indicated they wanted to be >involved. ALAC did some work on this in the >past that we can draw on in thinking about what >kinds of public interest oriented provisions >we'd like to see and could reasonably ask for >under the terms of the board resolution etc, as >well as longer term priorities. In any event, >there should be close cooperation between NCUC >and ALAC folks on this, including (one would >hope) on outreach to potentially interested >civil society people who are not presently >involved in either group. I suppose as a first >step we ought to set up a listserv and share >pointers to background docs and dialogues etc. >Perhaps I should add---and this will undoubtedly >surprise you to no end---that when this was >discussed in the council a month or two back >there was a lot of push from the biz c to >narrowly define the mandate, abandon use of the >term "charter of rights," and so on. Presumably >the monkey business will get back into full >swing once the list starts firing up. Should be >a heartening complement to the attacks on NCSG council seats, charter, etc. > >Best, > >Bill > > >karen banks wrote: >>hi robin >> >>Could you count me in for group 2, thanks (and, >>would you mind point me to any useful updates >>on this group's work? i'm afraid i haven't >>followed the discussion in NCUC this past month or so..) >> >>karen >> >>At 17:08 01/06/2009, Robin Gross wrote: >>>In follow-up to our constituency call today, >>>we are looking for volunteers for the following 3 new NCUC teams: >>> >>>1. New gTLD group to work on a response to >>>the new gTLD proposals (concern for free >>>expression, high costs, IRT "wish list", >>>favoritism of entrenched interests over innovators, etc). >>> >>>2. New group to provide input into the >>>Registrant Rights Charter discussion (bring in >>>outside expertise and craft positions on a >>>Registrant Rights Charter, work with At-Large/ALAC, etc). >>> >>>3. NCUC Membership Committee (develop and >>>implement ideas to bring in new non-commercial >>>members and increase participation in NCUC and ICANN). >>> >>>Please let me know if you are interested in >>>participating in ANY of the above new NCUC >>>teams that are being set up (or if you have any questions on them). >>> >>>Thank you! >>>Robin >>> >>> >>> >>>IP JUSTICE >>>Robin Gross, Executive Director >>>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA >>>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 >>>w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: >>>[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > >-- >*********************************************************** >William J. Drake >Senior Associate >Centre for International Governance >Graduate Institute of International and >Development Studies >Geneva, Switzerland >[log in to unmask] >www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html >**********************************************************