[council] GA

[Robin Gross]

I agree with a slight deferral.  While its an important task and I 
certainly welcome more public input into the GNSO process, we need to 
realistic about our current workload. 

Let's move a few items off our plate before we add new items to it.

Robin


Rosette, Kristina wrote:

>The combination of new gTLDs + Whois + domain tasting has exhausted my
>current Councilor bandwidth.  I propose that we defer action until at
>least after September 6.
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>Kristina Rosette
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
>On Behalf Of Gomes, Chuck
>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:05 AM
>To: Philip Sheppard; GNSO Council
>Subject: RE: [council] GA
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>What does it mean that an organization exists?  Is organizational
>existence defined by the ICANN Bylaws?  In other words, if an
>organization is not defined in the Bylaws, it does not exist?  If so and
>if we only responded to requests from Bylaws defined organizations, then
>we would not be able to respond to most organizations and the bottom-up
>policy development process would not work.
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>According to the Bylaws, the primary responsibility of the Council is to
>manage the policy development process.  Providing forums for input into
>that process seems to me to be a very legitimate means of fulfilling
>that responsibility.  And if we restrict those forums to existing
>constituencies, then we are limiting input, unless of course we think
>the constituency structure is perfect.
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>Chuck Gomes
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org
>>[mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:15 AM
>>To: 'GNSO Council'
>>Subject: [council] GA
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>>It is clear we cannot respond to organisations that do not exist.
>>The Board has abolished the General Assembly of the DNSO.
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>>The GA today is a mailing list for anyone in the world who wants to be
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>>I am informed that there was an election for a mailing list chairman 
>>and the only nominee was the one who proposed the idea of an election.
>>In the election of April 2007 of the 200 or so mailing list 
>>subscribers, 10 voted and the winner got 7 votes for and 2 against.
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>>This is clearly an issue for the wider ICANN reform.
>>Lets focus on our policy priorities.
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