[governance] Fixing an ICANN problem

[George Sadowsky]

Danny,

This is a good observation on your part.  Thanks for bringing it to the list.

As you know, the NCUC is being reformed as a result of the GNSO 
restructuring, and will be somewhat more comprehensive in composition 
in the future.  Also, as recent chair of the NCUC, Robin Gross has 
made significant initial progress in enlarging the existing group.

Perhaps ICANN's study will motivate these groups to involve 
themselves more in the working groups in the future.  This is 
especially important for the NCSG, which represents individual 
registrants who are further removed from ICANN activities than are 
the other constituencies within the GNSO.

(These are my own personal opinions.)

George

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At 5:38 AM -0800 11/11/09, Danny Younger wrote:
>ICANN recently published a study of constituency participation in 
>working group activities -- see 
>http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg07806.html
>
>The attendance rosters paint a very sad picture -- two 
>constituencies in particular (the ISPs and the NCUC) had no member 
>participation whatsoever in several working groups:
>
>Registration Abuse Policies WG
>Inter-Registrar Transfers WG-A
>Inter-Registrar Transfers WG-B
>Community Communications Coordination WG
>
>These two constituencies also had very limited attendance in other 
>working groups:
>
>Policy Development Process WG
>Post Expiry Domain Name Recovery WG
>
>Not listed in this report was participation data for some of the 
>newer working groups such as the Registrar Accreditation Amendments 
>WG and the Registrant Rights WG that similarly have seen no active 
>participation by members of these two constituencies.
>
>When some constituencies fail to participate at the working group 
>level it is almost inevitable that whatever recommendations emerge 
>will be skewed as a result of imbalanced input -- clearly this is 
>not a healthy situation.
>
>On this list are many veterans of the ICANN process.  What 
>suggestions might you offer to improve this overall situation?
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