Amr, Farzaneh:
The intransigence of the IPR constituencies has been a constant since ICANN's inception. 
They never compromise so it's not advisable to offer them any compromises. 

--MM


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> From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Amr Elsadr
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 5:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PC-NCSG] [Gnso-bylaws-dt] Reports from the GNSO Bylaws
> Implementation Drafting Team
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> Steve Metalitz of the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) circulated a
> minority statement to the Bylaws DT list that he asked to be forwarded to
> the GNSO Council on behalf of the three Commercial Stakeholder Group
> (CSG) constituencies. I’ve attached it to this email. It concerns the DT’s
> majority view to grant Council the role of acting on behalf the GNSO as a
> decisional participant in the EC.
> 
> Personally, I don’t find anything in the minority statement that adds to the
> arguments presented on behalf of the minority group within the DT that
> wasn’t already included in the DT’s final report. Speaking for myself, I believe
> the CSG constituencies have been rather unhelpful on this topic while
> working on the DT. Instead of focusing on the mandate of the DT, they took
> the opportunity to raise points that are likely more relevant to their ongoing
> desire to restructure the GNSO, and do away with the bicameral House
> structure it uses. I also believe the DT, over the past seven weeks, has
> wasted precious time negotiating edits to the report in order to prevent
> overrepresentation of the minority view compared to the overall DT
> consensus. This was, at times, frustrating, but I’m not unhappy with the final
> result.
> 
> The DT’s report, recommendations and minority statement will be discussed
> during today’s Council call. There is a placeholder motion to adopt the DT’s
> work, but given the timing of the DT’s conclusion of its work, I believe this
> motion should and will be deferred.
> 
> If you’d like to listen in on the Council call, you should be able to do so using a
> live audio stream here: http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01.m3u. It
> begins in about an hour at UTC 12:00.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Amr