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 > -----Original Message----- > From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Amr Elsadr > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 5:57 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > 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