A Proposal to Merge NCSG, NCUC and NPOC for More Efficiency in ICANN=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=DNS Work

[Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix]

Hi all,

Just for the record, all in all ncsg is in the 800 members range, including
orgs and individual members. But I see that we need to update certain
public-facing pages in that regard. It's been noted and will be acted upon
as far as NCSG is concerned.

I'm also looking forward to a plan regarding Sam's proposal, that aligns
identified issues and their proposed solution. Like many others I'm not
against a merger, on the contrary rather. But it would necessarily be a
long process, and it must be one carried forward by a group of dedicated
members and not by the ECs as ECs (and maybe not even by EC members as
individuals, depending on charter language). Not only is this a charter
requirement like James pointed out, but it is also a long-term legitimacy
requirement.

And it must be a process that will aim to solve concrete issues we are
facing. For example: if we have a problem with allocation of travel
support, a big merger in itself will not solve this, but changes to the
travel support policy of SG and Cs will.

Have a nice weekend,



On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 10:02 James Gannon <lists at icann.guru> wrote:

> In the last election we had 240 voters. Of which I would estimate 15% are
> actually involved in any work.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 11 Jul 2020, at 14:53, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca> wrote:
>
> 
> Dorothy, et. al.,
>
> I could be way off on membership. Better indicators are active
> participation and voter turnout.
> The ICANNWiki pages for NCSG, NCUC are one or two years out of date. NCSC
> claims 500 members
> The NPOC ICANNWiki page is up to data and links to a list of 100 members.
>
> Not counting those who are just NCSG members we are in the 600 claimed
> member range.
> Without diminishing the heroic work of NCSG/NCUC/NPOC volunteers, that
> still leaves us a
> weak leg on the ICANN multistakeholder stool.
>
> Sam
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> *From*: dorothy g <dgdorothydg at GMAIL.COM>
> *To*: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> *Sent*: Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 9:29 AM
> *Subject*: Re: A Proposal to Merge NCSG, NCUC and NPOC for More
> Efficiency in ICANN’s DNS Work
>
> I agree.  If someone could help us with a table of pros and cons
> I was also surprised that the total membership is only around 300?
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/ncsg-discuss/attachments/20200711/b7b32dbe/attachment.htm>