<div>Bruce and All,</div>
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<div>Thank you. I appreciate the decision from you and everyone else's support. </div>
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<div>In fact, since I joined ICANN, I have <u>never seen a Council that was more united on this issue than any other</u>. Afterall, I believe, the whole the membership issue started none other than, a result of the people I was trying to bring to the GNSO Council and then the IDN WG, as the people as already mentioned in their direct email to you.
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<div>Unfortunately, only 2 weeks are left for us to provide a useful debate, however, I guarantee you that there would not be any disruption or misbehaviour with these group I have known for a while. On the contrary, <u>
we will all benefit from the transfer of knowledge and ICANN in its membership goals.</u></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><font color="#6666cc">So I encourage working groups to move forward on the following basis<br>with respect to allowing "observers", who are not GNSO constituency
<br>members</font></blockquote></blockquote>
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<div>By this email, I presume it would be ok to forge forward and notify 'my outreach' who are interested to join IDN WG. I shall forward your email as instruction to them on the modalities to be followed.</div>
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<div>Thanks everyone for your strong support!!!</div>
<div>Sophia </div></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bruce Tonkin</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au" target="_blank">Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello All,<br><br>I have had no objections to the notice posted on the Council list at:<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03251.html" target="_blank">
http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03251.html</a><br><br>There have been some suggested refinements on the Council mailing list<br>to deal with potential problems. At the next Council meeting I will ask
<br>the Council to formally endorse a policy on observers in working groups.<br>As the working groups are on a tight time-line, I don't want to hold up<br>the spirit of the support I have received from many of the GNSO Council
<br>members for allowing more participation in working groups.<br><br>So I encourage working groups to move forward on the following basis<br>with respect to allowing "observers", who are not GNSO constituency<br>
members.<br><br><br>"Observers: Observers shall not be members of or entitled to vote on the<br>working group, but otherwise shall be entitled to participate on equal<br>footing with members of the working group. In particular observers
<br>will be able to join the mailing list, and attend teleconferences or<br>physical meetings."<br><br>To guard against some of the behaviour that can occur with unregulated<br>mailing lists, observers must provide their real name, organisation (if
<br>associated with an organisation) and contact details to the GNSO<br>secretariat, and the GNSO secretariat will verify at least their email<br>address and phone contact information. Observers will also be<br>requested to provide a public statement of interest, as for working
<br>group members.<br><br>Where a person joins an already established working group, this will be<br>on the basis that it is their responsibility to read the existing<br>documents, listen to teleconference recordings, and read the mailing
<br>list discussions before commenting on topics that have already been<br>dealt with by the working group.<br><br>Regards,<br>Bruce Tonkin<br><br></blockquote></div><br>