NCUC Constituency day

NCSG Policy Meeting
21 June 2011
9am-12:30pm (Singapore)

All NCUC Members are invited to participate on NCUC's constituency day meeting, which will take place as part of ICANN 41 in Singapore. Please check your time zones by clicking on the following link: time zones

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NCUC Agenda

Announcement: meeting with ALAC – Thursday 6pm at the VIP Lounge.

1.       Membership update

2        UDRP

3.       Issues before the Council and update from NCUC councilors

4.       Interest Groups

5.       Policy and Operation Issues

6.       NCUC preparing for ICANN 42

7.      Discussion with the Board – any particular direction we wish the questions to take?

As per poll, the discussion will focus on the 3 following issues:

1.   New Constituency Process and the NCSG charter

While understanding that the NCSG Stakeholder Group charter is waiting on the approval of the standardized New  Constituency process recommended by the Structural Improvements Committee, we would like to understand what issues, if any, may be blocking Board approval of both the New Constituency Process and the NCSG Stakeholder Group charter.

2. ICANN engagement with developing and transitional countries

How can ICANN enhance its engagement with developing and transitional countries?  What procedural/institutional improvements could be envisioned to increase the effective participation of governments and other stakeholders from these countries?  How can we increase the development-sensitivity of ICANN policy outputs, including, but not only, with respect to new gTLD applicant support?

3.   How does the increase role of the GAC affect the multistakeholder balance.

This question has several components:

-       How does the Board weighs GAC advice in relation to a GNSO recommendations, the CWG work and community comment on the implementation in the by-laws mandated process.

- How well does the current GAC model mesh with the ICANN bottom-up, multistakeholder policy development processes?

- Are there any specific areas of tension between the two, and if so how can these be managed?

- What specific steps could be taken to promote better communication and coordination, given GAC's professed constraints with respect to collective and individual government participation in multistakeholder processes?  Can the Board see government representatives becoming more integrated in this model? If so, how?

Note: At 12pm we are waiting for the WHOIS team to come and speak to us, which will also conclude the first part of constituency day.