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Comments From ICANN Staff On Possible Additional Components For Stakeholder Group Charters

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  • Subject: Comments From ICANN Staff On Possible Additional Components For Stakeholder Group Charters
  • From: Robert Hoggarth <robert.hoggarth@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:38 -0700

Comments From ICANN Staff On Possible Additional Components For Stakeholder 
Group Charters

These comments are being contributed to the Public Comment Forum entitled "GNSO 
Stakeholder Group" by the ICANN Staff. I have discussed the possibility of 
submitting these comments to this forum with the GNSO Council (on 9 July 2009), 
the GNSO Constituency Operations Work Team (on 10 July 2009) and the Structural 
Improvements Committee of the ICANN Board (on 15 July 2009).

As discussions among community and Board members evolved during the June 2009 
ICANN meeting week in Sydney, Australia, it became evident that the four draft 
GNSO Stakeholder Group (SG) Charters under discussion would benefit from the 
addition of some common components to ensure that all SGs and their members 
clearly practice and understand some of the fundamental mechanisms the 
community deems necessary for membership structures in the GNSO (either 
Stakeholder Group or Constituency) to demonstrate that their processes and 
practices satisfy the ICANN Bylaw principles of openness, transparency, 
fairness and representativeness (Article X, Section 5 of the ICANN Bylaws - see 
http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm#X).

Staff has prepared the attached document listing those elements that Staff 
suggests the Board should incorporate into the four final GNSO SG Charters. The 
brief document sets forth several concepts and ideas previously expressed by 
Staff in prior correspondence and a number of informal discussions the Staff 
has conducted with GNSO constituency leaders and members at various points over 
the past several months.

While these components have been discussed within the community and have also 
been raised in various public comment forums (see e.g., 
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200902.html#gnso-constituency-renewals),
 we would welcome additional community reaction and feedback on these specific 
proposals in this public forum for the revised SG Charters.

Attachment: Suggested Additional SG Charter Elements to Ensure Transparency etc.pdf
Description: Suggested Additional SG Charter Elements to Ensure Transparency etc.pdf



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