Comment to TLG Review draft Report of 3 December 2010

[Julian Pritchard <julian.pritchard@xxxxxxxx>]

This version of the Report is much improved compared to the first draft.

However, for me section 5.5 still misses the point about reciprocity where it 
states "... We strongly believe
governance participation privileges at the highest level - participation on the 
Board - should and must
be reciprocated to form effective peer relationships...".

Reciprocity has to be targeted at the appropriate level in the structure of the 
peer TLG member body.  Giving ICANN access to the ETSI Board would probably be 
pointless for both sides.  In ETSI, it may be more appropriate to give ICANN 
access to the ETSI GA (as we do at the moment) and/or OCG and/or directly to 
the related Technical Committees as we do with the mapping annexes to our 
Partnership Agreements with other bodies.  In any case, it should be a 
bilateral peer-peer arrangement at the highest most appropriate level, not 
necessarily Board-level ( ... in ETSI the Board is not the highest level of 
governance!).

Julian Pritchard
Governance Support Director
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)