As usual, the ICANN policy staff did not incorporate a single
suggestion from NCUC in its recent Bylaws revision where we submitted public comments. They still want to give the Commercial Constituencies 4 delegates to the Nominating Committee and Noncommercial Users are only allowed a single delegate. Favoritism of commercial users is still baked into ICANN's structure in most places.
They didn't even incorporate a very small, minor, text change that we requested that only would have recognized that there are "other" impacts in this world to consider besides only "financial" impacts in policy development. this was our request:
"We believe in the "collection of information" for a Constituency Statement that (iv) should be amended to include "other" impacts besides financial impacts on a constituency. Since NCUC is not working for an economic interest, most often our concerns are not "financial impacts" so a constituency statement should be allowed to consider those other impacts and not discouraged from considering non- financial impacts as the proposed text implies. Therefore, we propose 7d. (iv) be re-written as: "An analysis of how the issue would affect the constituency or Stakeholder Group, including any financial or other impact on the constituency or Stakeholder Group;".
But unfortunately, comments from noncommercial users don't make their way into ICANN policy staff documents. It seems the only reason to send in
comments to ICANN at this point is so that others can see the extent to which ICANN policy staff follows its own agenda.
Here are the staff's revised bylaws:
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