[registrars] Re: [liaison6c] Public Comment period on Proposed Change to ICANN Bylaws Regarding the Number of GNSO Council Representatives.

["Robert F. Connelly" <BobC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:56 PM 3/20/05, GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The public Comment period has commenced on the Proposed Change to ICANN 
> Bylaws Regarding the Number of GNSO Council Representatives.
> Proposed change to the ICANN Bylaws:
>
> Section 3. GNSO COUNCIL
> Subject to the provisions of the Transition Article of these Bylaws, the 
> GNSO Council shall consist of three representatives selected by each of 
> the Constituencies described in Section 5 of this Article, and three 
> persons selected by the ICANN Nominating Committee. No two representatives 
> selected by a Constituency shall be citizens of the same country or of 
> countries located in the same Geographic Region.
Dear Glen:  I continue to play this old harp.  It is *more_important* that 
the GNSO representatives by *residents_of* the *region* they represent than 
to be *citizens_of* said region.
GAC stuck us with this anomaly years ago.  May we now request that each 
representative be *both_citizen_of_and_resident_of* the region he or she 
represents?
Regards, BobC

>  There may also be two liaisons to the GNSO Council, one appointed by 
> each of the Governmental Advisory Committee and the At-Large Advisory 
> Committee from time to time, who shall not be members of or entitled to 
> vote on the GNSO Council, but otherwise shall be entitled to participate 
> on equal footing with members of the GNSO Council. The appointing 
> Advisory Committee shall designate its liaison (or revoke or change the 
> designation of its liaison) on the GNSO Council by providing written 
> notice to the Chair of the GNSO Council and to the ICANN Secretary. The 
> GNSO Council may also have observers as described in paragraph 9 of this 
> Section.
> The proposed change is to replace "two" with "three" and leave the article 
> otherwise unchanged.
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