Hello all,

 

The notes, recordings and transcripts for CCWG Accountability WS2 Jurisdiction Subgroup Meeting #22 – 21 March 2017 will be available here:  https://community.icann.org/x/CKPRAw

 

A copy of the action items and notes may be found below. 

 

With kind regards,

Brenda Brewer, Projects & Operations Assistant 

Multistakeholder Strategy & Strategic Initiatives (MSSI)

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

 

 

 Action Items: 

·         Rapporteur to announce RT to the list and solicit additional members from the sub-team participants.

·         Staff to organize and ad-hoc meeting of those members of the RT who will be present at ICANN58 while they are in Copenhagen.

·         Rapporteur to communicate sign-up sheet to sub-group list and solicit volunteers to sign-up to review cases.

·         Mathieu Weill to review the Pool.com v. ICANN case

·         Vidushi Marda to review the Ruby Glen v. ICANN case

·         Avri Doria to review Auebach v. ICANN case.

·         Staff to update the sing-up sheet for these cases (completed)

·         Kavouss Arasteh will provide his comments on the form to the list this week.

·         Greg Shatan will review the evaluation form per the discussion today for the next meeting of the sub-group.

Notes (including relevant parts of the chat): 

15 participants at start of call

1.  Welcome

2.  Review of Agenda

Greg Shatan - any modifications? (none).

Kavouss Arasteh (15 minutes into the call) - lodging complaint about trouble being completed. Also, please speak slowly.

Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO): I was only just connected to audio/phone as well Kavouss there were obviously complications

3. Administration (5 minutes)

     3.1.  Questions to ICANN Legal – Status of Legal Committee

Greg Shatan - Leon Sanchez has forwarded our questions to CCWG-Acct Legal comm.

     3.2.  Hypotheticals document – Propose suspending the work until ICANN Legal responds to the questions.

Parminder - this is a slightly different than what has been asked but they may be sequential.

Greg Shatan - any other comments? (none). Documents will remain open for comments and people can contribute to them in the meantime we take them up again as a group. Any objection? (none).

David McAuley (RySG): support that Greg

Decision: The sub-group will suspend work on the Hypotheticals Document as a group. The document will remain open to individual contributions until the document returns to the sub-group for consideration.

     3.3.  “Influence of ICANN’s Existing Jurisdiction” document – Propose suspending the work until this group completes the review of ICANN’s past and current litigation which will inform the development of that document.

Parminder - similar nature to my comment on 3.2. Would ask to keep this document open since review of litigation is not all the information for this document.

Greg Shatan - Agree with Parminder and as per previous point the document will remain open for comments. Any objections? (none).

Decision: The sub-group will suspend work on the Influence of ICANN’s Existing Jurisdiction document as a group. The document will remain open to individual contributions until the document returns to the sub-group for consideration.

4.  Questionnaire Update (20 minutes)

     4.1.  Method for processing responses

     4.1.1.  Rolling review of responses – Propose new responses to the questionnaire to be reviewed by the Jurisdiction sub-group at each meeting.

Greg Shatan - Any objections (none).

Parminder - Responses will be available to the sub-group.

Greg Shatan – yes – they are posted on the Jurisdiction wiki as they come in.

Decision: The sub-group will review all new responses to its questionnaire at each of its meetings.

     4.1.2.  Proposal for a review team – Propose review team will be responsible for updating the sub-group on new responses and their status at each meeting as well as elaborating an evaluation framework for responses, for approval by the sub-group, based on the responses received.

Greg Shatan - presentation of general expectations of review team.

Kavouss Arasteh - Is sound ok now? suggest review team and evaluation team are separate but they should be balanced from all SOACs.

Greg Shatan - Only one team. In terms of balance hoping we get volunteers from all groups.

Mathieu Weill: Happy to help

Mathieu Weill: Also, please all consider doing outreach about the questionnaire in your respective groups

Greg Shatan - any objections? (none).

David McAuley (RySG): sorry, let's label the RT as a pilot - the job might eat up the team's time so let's make it easy for them to seek relief.

Greg Shatan - Good suggestion DM.

Kavouss Arasteh: Blanced team

Decision: The sub-group will have a review team composed of participants of the Jurisdiction sub-group. This will be a pilot project for the moment and membership in the RT will remain open for the moment. The team, subject to sub-group approval, will be responsible for looking at all the responses to the questionnaire, analyzing these, presenting these to the sub-group at its meetings, evolving the tracking tool and developing analysis criteria for the responses.

     4.1.3.  Selection of the review team

Greg Shatan - Volunteers? MW, Parminder, DM, KA, VMarda. Thank you.

David McAuley (RySG): If these volunteers plan to be in Copenhagen maybe we can meet briefly. Action Item – staff to try to organize an informal meeting of the RT in Copenhagen.

Mathieu Weill: +1 david. Good idea

Kavouss Arasteh: May I propose that Mathieu coordinating the wroks of the team

Mathieu Weill: Kavouss : thanks but that might be beyond my abilities And not very good to have too many hats

Kavouss Arasteh: I do not thing any one oppose to my suggestion provided that mMathieu kindly agrees to that.

Decision: Initial members of the RT will be Mathieu Weill, Parminder, David McAuley, Vidushi Marda.

Action Items:

·         Rapporteur to announce RT to the list and solicit additional members from the sub-team participants.

·         Staff to organize and ad-hoc meeting of those members of the RT who will be present at ICANN58 while they are in Copenhagen.

     4.2.  Review of current responses in tool (document).

Greg Shatan - Review of tool

Kavouss Arasteh - Is there any threshold to make this valid?

Greg Shatan - Good topic for the Review Team. We will also review these responses individually - this is not about voting - its more an information gathering process.

Kavouss Arasteh - need wide representation on responses.

Greg Shatan - depends on who responds. Any comments on the tool itself or the comments received to date?

Kavouss Arasteh - deadline is 17 April - I wish to include the source of the information.and we should not forget the views of the minority.

Greg Shatan - Reminder this is a questionnaire and not a survey - sources can be added - all of this is really details for the Review Team.

Kavouss Arasteh - Source is important.

David McAuley (RySG): good point, @Kavouss -

Seun Ojedeji: I agree with Kavouss

Greg Shatan - For the review team to consider. We need to give each response its due consideration to find facts - this what the questionnaire is about.

David McAuley (RySG): Agree to let RT grapple with this first

5.  Review of ICANN’s Past and Current Litigation (30 minutes)

     5.1.  Review of Sign-up sheet (document)

Mathieu Weill: I'll look at Pool.com (the only one in front of a non US court)

Vidushi Marda: i can look at ruby glen

Kavouss Arasteh - Please send a request on the list to get volunteers and give a week. Parminder may wish to volunteer for some.

Greg Shatan - Good suggestion

avri doria: i'll volunteer for Auerbach vs ICANN

David McAuley (RySG): those picking cases here please be sure to put name in tool - so others don't duplicate work

avri doria: what is the url for this sheet?

Mathieu Weill: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oo9oDJuuxFz1UUNaBfHeor7HPhJ5XcRHFTq3hjRltOM/edit

Action Items:

·         Rapporteur to communicate sign-up sheet to sub-group list and solicit volunteers to sign-up to review cases.

·         Mathieu Weill to review the Pool.com v. ICANN case

·         Vidushi Marda to review the Ruby Glen v. ICANN case

·         Avri Doria to review Auebach v. ICANN case.

·         Staff to update the sing-up sheet for these cases.

     5.2.  Verisign, Inc. v. ICANN V2 – MW (document)

Mathieu Weill: Was not really sure of choice of law / governing law so might need to add

Parminder - It would be interesting on these cases if they are a matter of facts or principles - given we are considering jurisdiction vs ICANN policies.

David McAuley (RySG): if we add to the form lets please write down what we are adding so reviewers are not guessing

Greg Shatan - Good suggestion - under outcome. Lets also note if the court considered jurisdiction. Action Item: Will review the form.

David McAuley (RySG): courts always "discuss" JX just to say they have it.

Parminder: it is significant that court asserts jurisdiction, and full jurisdiction on different icann policy issues

Philip Corwin: This is the litigation that ended with what was then the very controversial .com settlement

Mathieu Weill - we need to make all the questions in the form crystal clear.

Greg Shatan - Good suggestion.

Kavouss Arasteh - I will have suggestions for this form. Two different type of judgements etc.

Greg Shatan - Godd suggestion - please provide input on list. We have run out of time and will adjourn.

Action Items:

·         Kavouss Arasteh will provide his comments on the form to the list this week.

·         Greg Shatan will review the evaluation form per the discussion today for the next meeting of the sub-group. 

Summary of Decisions and Action Items:

Decisions:

·         The sub-group will suspend work on the Hypotheticals Document as a group. The document will remain open to individual contributions until the document returns to the sub-group for consideration.

·         The sub-group will suspend work on the Influence of ICANN’s Existing Jurisdiction document as a group. The document will remain open to individual contributions until the document returns to the sub-group for consideration.

·         The sub-group will review all new responses to its questionnaire at each of its meetings.

·         The sub-group will have a review team composed of participants of the Jurisdiction sub-group. This will be a pilot project for the moment and membership in the RT will remain open for the moment. The team, subject to sub-group approval, will be responsible for looking at all the responses to the questionnaire, analyzing these, presenting these to the sub-group at its meetings, evolving the tracking tool and developing analysis criteria for the responses.

·         Initial members of the RT will be Mathieu Weill, Parminder, David McAuley, Vidushi Marda.

Action Items: 

·         Rapporteur to announce RT to the list and solicit additional members from the sub-team participants.

·         Staff to organize and ad-hoc meeting of those members of the RT who will be present at ICANN58 while they are in Copenhagen.

·         Rapporteur to communicate sign-up sheet to sub-group list and solicit volunteers to sign-up to review cases.

·         Mathieu Weill to review the Pool.com v. ICANN case

·         Vidushi Marda to review the Ruby Glen v. ICANN case

·         Avri Doria to review Auebach v. ICANN case.

·         Staff to update the sing-up sheet for these cases (completed)

·         Kavouss Arasteh will provide his comments on the form to the list this week.

·         Greg Shatan will review the evaluation form per the discussion today for the next meeting of the sub-group.