[Comment-Dnso] Amendments to ICANN By-Laws.

["Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>]

Dear ICANN Board:

I hasten to respond to your request for comments.

The first comment is somewhat trivial:

In the following paragraph, I think "...no two of which may
be..." should read "... no two of whom
may be...".  
 

"Each Constituency shall select up to three individuals to represent
that
Constituency on the NC, no two of which may be, except with the consent
of the
Board, residents of the same Geographic Region, as defined in Article V,
Section
6. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Constituency may have more
representatives
on the NC than there are members of the Constituency. Nominations within
each
Constituency may be made by any member of the Constituency, but no
such
member may make more than one nomination in any single
Constituency." 

For my authority, I call upon a phrase in Japanese -- "common
sense".  It is just common sense that no corporate entity
should be entitled to a larger participation in the affairs of the Names
Council.  

It is interesting to contemplate how things will work out if and when
there are two members of the gTLD Registry Constituency. 
They*could* reach a deadlock in which no candidate could get a majority
in a vote for anything.  On contentious issues, there could not be a
vote of over 50%.

Regards,
BobC

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