Dear Members of the OFB-WB
Please see attached the revised ALAC Objections Procedure completed by the
Small Team. As you should be aware, this was discussed at the last OFB-WG
call on Thursday 1 May 2025. At that time a vote of the ALAC was taken
because we had quorum on the call and the final version was approved.
The Alac Chair agreed to rely on the poll already taken.
Claire C. Craig
Co-Chair OFB-WG
Claire,
This message is being sent on Dev Anand Teelucksingh and my behalf. As
agreed during our Thursday OFB meeting, you should forward this message to
the ALAC on behalf of the OFB and you may also copy the CPWG for its
information.
The attached document was created by the ALAC Objections small group and
subject to one concern (see below), has the support of the small group and
those present on the OFB call on 01 May 2025. During that call, a majority
of ALAC Members were present and unanimously supported the document (those
present were Aziz, Bukola, Claire, Eunice, Justine, Lilian, Satish and
Shah).
Jonathan may choose to conduct a new poll of the ALAC to include all
Members, or rely on the poll already taken.
The concern mentioned is as follows: Tijani has expressed concern about the
option for a gARG member to recuse themselves from a specific
application(s) instead of resigning. He feels that allowing recusal and not
mandating resignation may impact our credibility and lessen the strength of
our objections, and that the gARG should be fully free of any conflict with
ALL applications. If that is not the case, the applicant may use this to
attempt to undermine our standing. He also feels that no one is
indispensable and the rest of the gARG people can cover anything.
The counterargument is that a resignation of a person with specific skills
or knowledge due to a conflict with one application may impact our ability
to respond to another un-connected application and may impact our ability
to respond to an appeal. Moreover if there are multiple such resignations
the overall team may be impacted. Recusal is an effective remedy in the
ICANN Board and should suffice for us.
Although we did not take a full poll of the small group nor the OFB, I do
not believe that any of those on calls over several weeks supported this
concern, but Dev and Clair can confirm. Should the ALAC choose to alter
this, the document can be quickly revised.
Alan
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CCC
