Dear all, The comment period of this ends Monday 24 August (in 3 days) and we still need a volunteer to draft NCUC's position statement on this issue. The comment can be brief - the best one's are. Any volunteers? Please let me know asap. Thank you! Robin On Aug 17, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Robin Gross wrote: > Dear all, > > The comment period on the proposed ICANN Bylaws Amendments Related > to GNSO Restructuring ends 24 August and there are quite a few > knocks to noncommercial users in ICANN's proposal. So we need to > draft and submit some constituency comments on these proposed > bylaws amendments. For example, ICANN proposes to give the > commercial stakeholders 4 delegates to the Nominating Committee, > while giving the noncommercial users only 1 delegate to the > Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee is important > because it selects key appointments to ICANN, like the Board of > Directors, GNSO Councilors, and others. The bias toward > commercial views in the proposed bylaws needs to pointed out in > this comment period. > > If anyone would like to volunteer to create a small drafting team > to develop a constituency position to submit on the proposed GNSO > bylaws amendments, please let me know. This must be submitted one > week from today, so time is short. Thanks very much! > > More info: > http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public- > comment-200908.html#gnso-restructure > > Best, > Robin > > ------ > Bylaw Amendments Related to Restructuring of the GNSO Council > (Version 2) > Open: > 3 August 09 > Closed: > 24 August 09 > Explanation/Background: > > Implementation of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) > Review/Improvements process requires the amendment of a substantial > number of the ICANN Bylaws to reflect new GNSO structures, > processes and mechanisms. In particular, a specific package of > draft Bylaws and additional Staff recommendations has been > developed for Public review and comment so that the ICANN Board can > move forward with Bylaw amendments to seat the new GNSO Council by > the annual ICANN meeting in Seoul, Korea. Approving the Bylaws > amendments is a key step toward seating a newly structured Council > consistent with the recommendations of the ICANN Board Governance > Committee. > > An initial set of Bylaws amendments (Version 1) were posted for > public comment on 30 June 2009, reflecting the work product of a > GNSO Council Restructure Drafting Team (consisting of the entire > GNSO Council and additional GNSO community members), and additional > Staff recommendations. The Bylaw Amendments (Version 2) [PDF, 256K] > being posted for public comment today are based upon the 30 June > 2009 initial version and include additional amendments that reflect > guidance received by Staff from the Board's Structural Improvements > Committee (SIC) as well as other issues identified by Staff in its > efforts to develop Bylaws that are internally consistent and > conform to the principles of the BGC Report. > > The package consists of three documents. > > • The first document is a side-by-side comparison showing the > existing Bylaws, revised and redlined in the left column, and clean > text (Version 2) in the right column: http://www.icann.org/en/ > general/proposed-gnso-council-bylaw-amendments-comparison-31jul09- > en.pdf [PDF, 256K] > > • The second document identifies the key differences between the > draft Bylaws developed by the GNSO through its Restructure Drafting > Team and this Version 2 text: http://www.icann.org/en/general/ > proposed-gnso-council-bylaw-amendments-notes-comments-03aug09- > en.pdf [PDF, 76K] > > • The third document is additional background and explanation of > Staff's rationale for certain proposed amendments included in > Version 2: http://www.icann.org/en/general/proposed-gnso-council- > bylaw-amendments-explanation03aug09-en.pdf [PDF, 76K] > > Staff Responsible: Robert Hoggarth > > Deadline and How to Submit Comments: > > The Staff is opening a 21-day public consultation forum, from 3 > August 2009 through 24 August 2009, and invites community comments > on this topic. > > To submit comments: Comments on the document are welcome via email > at [log in to unmask] This public forum will be open > through 23 August 2009. > > To view comments: An archive of all comments received will be > publicly posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-council-draft2/. > > For a copy of the public Announcement of this forum please see > http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/en/announcements/ > announcement-03aug09-en.htm. That Announcement provides inks to a > number of documents that give some useful context and background > regarding the issues in this forum. > > Is it clear to you what this comment period covers? Do you have all > the information you need to respond? Please click "More information > please" below to email I > Staff member responsible: Robert Hoggarth | More information please > Announcement | Comments | Add a comment | Summary/analysis of comments > > ---------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > > > 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]