- the MoU should have a mechanism (and a requirement) for the Numbers  
Council to convene an annual General Assembly.  The General Assembly  
should be held in coordination with one of the RIR's regular membership  
meeting.  This should be added to the responsibilities in section 3.b of  
the MoU.

- Section 3.b.3 should explicitly include the responsibility of the  
Address Council in respect to selecting an ICANN Board member and a  
representative to the ICANN Nominating Committee.

- A short Appendix (Appendix B) should be added to the document that  
describes the agreement between ICANN and the NRO on how the transition  
between the existing Address Council and the new Address Council should  
take place.  This need not be complicated, but it should be explicitly  
included in the MoU.  Perhaps the Appendix could simply describe an  
approach that provided a common-sense, evolutionary transition for the  
makeup of the new Address Council.

- The first paragraph of section 5 should be changed to the much simpler :  
"Global policies are defined as policies that have the consensus of all  
RIRs and ICANN."  The concluding clause of the proposed text is too  
limiting in the definition of global policy.  A policy that has been  
agreed to by all the RIRs through coordinated consensus building IS A  
GLOBAL POLICY regardless of the interaction of IANA or any external body.   
There is no need to limit the definition and it should not be limited.

- Appendix A refers to the "Chair of the Address Council," but the MoU  
makes no requirement that the Address Council select a "Chair."  This was  
also the source of misunderstanding in the original Address Council.   
Explicitly requiring that there be a chair, procedures for the chair's  
annual election, and responsibilities/limitations of the chair would avoid  
misunderstanding.  While the NRO formation document suggests that a chair  
of the Number Council should be elected, it is not explicit about the  
responsibilities/limitations of the chair nor does it specify that the  
Numbers Council chair should act as the chair of the Address Council.

- Section 3.C should be clear about what rights each liasions will have in  
regard to the Address Council.  If the suggestion is that the rights and  
responsibilities of each liaison will be determined as each liaison  
agreement is negotiated, simply add that note to 3.C.  In particular, can  
liaisons vote in the PDP?  Can liaisons vote in the selection of ICANN  
entities in 3.b.3?  Or, is this determined on a "liaison-by-liaison" basis.
-- 
Mark McFadden	
Address Council Representative, North America