Re: [icann-eu] Re: [ICANN-EU] ccTLDs to ask for BoD seats?

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Roberto,
I am worried bout your quoting the Yokohama positions as until recently 
Peter Donegate Trush who is one of the leader of the ccTLDs position was a 
consultant in the GAC NZ delegation. Also because Peter de Blanc and him 
are new management of the ccTLD constituency. Also because in MDR some 
ccTLDs supported alliances so different from previous ones (just look at 
the list of the represented countries - and the different types of ccTLD 
management - and think they unanimoulsy voted the text of an unique 
contract template).

At 13:55 27/11/00, you wrote:
>t byfield wrote:
>>roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com (Fri 11/24/00 at 06:22 PM +0100):
>>
>> > First of all, we still have the official positions of Twomey and Wilkinson
>> > (AU+EU GAC reps) that reconsideration of the AtLarge Board seats may push
>> > the governments to reconsider their current position.
>>
>>roberto--
>>
>>if you could point me to some URLs or documents in which this
>>position was clearly stated, i'd be grateful. i know that both
>>of them said something like this at yokohama,[*] but i wasn't
>>aware that this was a formal position.
>
>It is not a "formal position of the GAC", but it is their "formal position".
>I don't have other pointers, but I assume that a statement in a public 
>meeting, recorded and webcast, *is* an official statement.

At this stage I believe that GAC positions should be considered very 
carefully as the disputes between the ICANN and the ccTLDs are (most 
probably) the image of the tensions between the USA and the rest of (some) 
world.

You obviously want to support the ICANN and stability. I feel that the 
statu quo satisfies nobody, starting with Staff and BoD. (I think) they 
need our support to move in the right direction. And that direction is 
certainly an "augmented.root" with the root service enlarged to ccTLDs and 
TLDs for better co-responsibility and a revised distribution of the forces 
within the ICANN so the different stakeholders may become together "WE the 
ICANN" and rule out the "THEY the ICANN squatters" many still think with 
reason. This obviouisly calling first on a legal stability (trhough a 
bylaws modification mecanism) to permit a further operations stability 
through an enlarged RSSAC member of a TLDSO including cc,g and p TLDs.
Jefsey