RE: [ga] Getting Heard by the ICANN Board

[Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominik, 

The ICANN Structure is illustrated here (in brief):
http://www.icann.org/general/org-chart-12jan04.gif

The Board consists of fifteen voting members and six non-voting
Liaisons, described here in sections 2 and 9 of Article VI:
http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#VI:

The two selected by the GNSO are done so by a vote of the GNSO Council
members who themselves are elected/appointed by their constituencies.
However, the Board members selected by the GNSO are not required to
vote on issues based on any direction or consensus of the GNSO or its
constituencies. For example, the NCUC's posted comments about the COM
agreement made it clear they had problems with it. But they, and the
rest of us, could not directly control the vote of Rita or Alex (the
GNSO appointed Board members). Rita and Alex reviewed the comments and
relevant info and made their own decision.


Tim 
 

 -------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [ga] Getting Heard by the ICANN Board
From: "Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, December 18, 2006 6:25 am
To: "GA" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I've realized that I'm still lacking some information about the internal
processes at ICANN.

We have several constituencies of which at least two should be
representing the registrant interests - NCU and (non-voting) At-Large. I
don't know what the connection of the constituences to the board members
(who are eligible to make final decisions by voting) is like. If, for
instance, the info/org/biz agreement was approved unanimously, does it
mean that NCU (as a voting constituency) voted for the agreement and
thus failed in approaching the registrant interests?

What is the GNSO (which list we're subscribed to) role in all that? Can
I find anything like organizational tree chart on the ICANN page?

Maybe a bit dumb questions out here... but I'd like to get to know...

thanks

Dominik