See the below ICANN staff prepared table regarding GNSO Council seats in the "new and improved" GNSO to be seated in Seoul.  

Even before the CSG can hold its first election, 3 of its 6 GNSO Councilors will represent the United States.   

ICANN is holding on tighter than ever to keep the developing world out of the policy development space, and since ICANN is run by the US Dept. of Commerce, it is no wonder that US business receives such preferential treatment above all over stakeholders.

Robin

GNSO Councilors	Term Expiration (Note 1)	Disposition (Note 2)	Action Needed (Note 3)	Region
CSG:
Philip Sheppard	2009*	[Note 4]
Mike Rodenbaugh	2010	Continues		North America
Zahid Jamil	2009	Term Ending	Election
Tony Holmes	2009*	[Note 4]
Tony Harris	2010	Continues		Latin America
Greg Ruth	2010	Continues		North America
Ute Decker	2009*	[Note 4]
Cyril Chua	2009	Term Ending	Election
Kristina Rosette	2010	Continues		North America
RySG:
Chuck Gomes	2010	Continues		North America
Jordi Iparraguirre	2009	Term Ending	Election
Edmon Chung	2010	Continues		Asia Pacific
RrSG:
Tim Ruiz	2009	Term Ending	Election
Stéphane van Gelder	2010	Continues		Europe
Adrian Kinderis	2009	Term Ending	Election
NCSG (Note 5):
William Drake	2010	Continues		North America
Mary Wong	2010	Continues		Asia Pacific
Carlos Souza	2009	Term Ending	Election
Councilor 4	--	Vacancy	Appointed
Councilor 5	--	Vacancy	Appointed
Councilor 6	--	Vacancy	Appointed
NCA (Note 6):
Terry Davis	2010	Continues		North America
Avri Doria	2009*	Term Ending	Appointed
Olga Cavalli	2009	Term Ending	Appointed

On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Robin Gross wrote:

According to the BC's website, 58% of the Business Constituency's membership is based in a single country - the USA (28 of the 44 members). 

Not very representative of the global business community.  I guess that is why they lobbied for and received the special exception allowing them to elect all 6 of their GNSO councilors from only 2 geographic regions in their new charter.

We have more members in different countries (48), than the entire BC membership combined (44).

But what do facts matter at ICANN?

Robin

On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Robin Gross wrote:

The Facts.

Commercial Stakeholder Group Membership.

According to the Business Constituency's website, they have 44 members.

According to the IPR Constituency's website, they have 18 members.

According to the ISP Constituency's website, (they don't publish membership lists and haven't had a post to their email list in 2009).  But, according the 2006 LSE Report (the last documented account of the ISP Constituency's membership, they have 42 members.

So if we add the membership of these 3 commercial constituencies together, we get  total of 104 members in the Commercial Stakeholder Group, who will elect 6 GNSO Councilors.

Contrast:

NCUC has 142 members but noncommercial users will not be allowed to elect any of our new GNSO Councilors on the claim that we are too small to deserve to elect all 6 GNSO Councilors.

Did anyone from ICANN staff/SIC do any math before they ruled non-commercial users are too small to deserve to elect all 6 GNSO Councilors?

  NCSG membership = 142 members (allowed 3 elected representatives)

  CSG membership = 104 members (allowed 6 representatives)

What was the decision-making process that led to ICANN's determination that noncommercial users are too small?  Seriously, we deserve to know how they arrived at that decision and upon what facts the decision was based - it is our elected representation that they are meddling with.  ICANN will have to answer this.

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