Tick tick tick...with each passing hour and day the ability of GNSO Council to reach informed positions on the 12 Recommendations is diminished. Council has scheduled a call on Monday the 29th so that we can initiate that discussion before departure for Marrakech. After the Co-Chairs announcement on Friday that they were delaying release of the Final Proposal, Council members were asked whether we should still hold that 2/29 call, and I chimed in as still favoring it provided that Council had a decent amount of time (which I would personally envision as a minimum of 48 hours) to review a locked down document. So I again urge the Co-Chairs to take a fork in the road and proceed, and now urge the Board to provide a commitment that is clearly of great importance to many members and participants, because otherwise we will soon need to debate whether the March 9th deadline for Chartering Organization decisions is still feasible. Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597/Direct 202-559-8750/Fax 202-255-6172/cell Twitter: @VlawDC "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Salaets, Ken Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:54 PM To: Drazek, Keith; accountability-cross-community@icann.org Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Poll results Without an explicit commitment, it seems we cannot dismiss the possibility of yet another cycle like this latest one. Perhaps the condition of agreeing to proposed edit? Ken From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Drazek, Keith Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:48 PM To: accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Poll results Agreed. Keith From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of James Gannon Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:45 PM To: Matthew Shears Cc: accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Poll results I will also pile in on this in support of the request. This is important. Sent from my iPad On 23 Feb 2016, at 17:43, Matthew Shears <mshears@cdt.org<mailto:mshears@cdt.org>> wrote: + 1 agree Steve On 2/23/2016 4:15 PM, Steve DelBianco wrote: I support Brett's request for an explicit commitment. Whether that commitment is given or not, Brett's point should be noted as an ASSUMPTION of the CCWG in our report Annex 2. From: <accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of "Schaefer, Brett" <Brett.Schaefer@heritage.org<mailto:Brett.Schaefer@heritage.org>> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 8:57 AMthis one in support, To: "el@lisse.NA<mailto:el@lisse.NA>" <el@lisse.NA<mailto:el@lisse.NA>>, "nigel@channelisles.net<mailto:nigel@channelisles.net>" <nigel@channelisles.net<mailto:nigel@channelisles.net>>, "accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org>" <accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org>> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Poll results Chairs, As I mentioned in the call last night, before any final announcement is made, I would hope that we could get explicit clarification and commitment from the Board that, if the GAC cannot decide or chooses not to become a decisional participant, that the Board would support lowering the thresholds for exercising all EC powers to avoid the requirement for SOAC unanimous support to exercise those powers. I am concerned that the Board's position on the GAC carve-out reference Board recall, could/would be equally applied to the above situation. I believe now, before a final decision is made, is the time to clarify that matter. Thank you, Brett ________________________________ BrettSchaefer Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-608-6097 heritage.org<http://heritage.org/> From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Dr Eberhard W Lisse Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:41 AM To: nigel@channelisles.net<mailto:nigel@channelisles.net>; accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Poll results Without even bothering to register as Participant. el On 2016-02-23 15:36, Nigel Roberts wrote:
I'm also puzzled as to how Board Members, and the CEO, can simply pitch up and pitch in, late in the game.
On 23/02/16 13:27, Edward Morris wrote:
Disagree. There are formal requirements for participating in the CCWG.
There are indeed
It's a minimal requirement, but a necessary one The fact that the requirement is minimal is no excuse for dispensing with it extrajudicially. In fact, it's no excuse at all, since if it is minimal, anyone who wanted to be Participant has a very low hurdle.
No gerrymandering, please. [...]
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