Jørgen, Your original proposal was "whether in particular the views and advice provided by GAC has been duly taken into account given the specific tasks of national governments with respect to public policy." There was a strong feeling from both Brian and Avri that we not call out one particular stakeholder. Moreover, like other parts of my original draft that were omitted, we need to be careful that the wording of the RFP does not direct the outcome (that is, by us identifying the issue of whether the GAC input is taken into account, we are to some extent reaching a conclusion ahead of time - we wouldn't ask the question if there were not a perceived problem). We already have the sub-bullet: "to what extent process incorporates the views, advice and needs of all stakeholders, both those active in ICANN and those not typically present for ICANN deliberations (See Annex)." In Brian's absence, we (the three vice-chairs) feel that the best we can do is to move the list of ICANN stakeholders from the Annex to the scope, replacing that bullet with: "to what extent process incorporates the views, advice and needs stakeholders, ICANN Advisory Committees - Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), At-large Advisory Committee (ALAC), Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC); Supporting Organizations - Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), Address Supporting Organization (ASO); and those not typically present for ICANN deliberations (See Annex)." And removing the footnotes in the Annex. I hope that you can accept this so that we can issue the RFP prior to Brian's return. Alan (on behalf of Lise and Avri) At 28/06/2013 04:01 AM, Jørgen C Abild Andersen wrote:
Dear Alan
I am somewhat surprised about your e-mail and I am not sure that I fully understand the reasons for the proposed change of the approach we agreed at the conference call last week. As you will recall the agreement we reached also included adding a sentence as proposed by me. Upon your proposal it was also agreed that the exact wording of the sentence should be agreed between you and me bilaterally. I have not seen your proposal for fine tuning of the wording yet but I will urge you to send your proposal for a more precise wording of the sentence to me as soon as possible as I think we all agree that it is very important to get the process started very soon in accordance with what was agreed at our conference call last week.
Best regards Jørgen
---------- Fra: atrt2-bounces@icann.org [mailto:atrt2-bounces@icann.org] På vegne af Alan Greenberg Sendt: 27. juni 2013 05:34 Til: ATRT2 Emne: [atrt2] URGENT: Final Draft RFP Prioritet: Høj
Attached please find the hopefully final RFP. Before disappearing for the next week, Brian made some edits, one of which removed the explicit reference to the GAC under scope of work. Since he is not here to present his rationale, I have temporarily left in his comment about why he felt strongly that the particular reference should not be included in the RFP.
Partly in response to that, Lise and I, with Avri's agreement included an explicit reference to ICANN ACs and SOs in the Annex description of stakeholders.
In addition to posting this RFP publicly, staff has identified two potential consultants to explicitly be invited to bid, One World Trust and Ken Bour. With this note, I ask staff to explain why they believe that they could meet our needs.
If anyone on the RT has additional suggestions for who to invite, please let us know quickly. The list of those submitting proposals to the ATRT1 competition can be found at <http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/atrt/rfp-respondents-evaluation-19jun10-en.pdf>http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/atrt/rfp-respondents-evaluation-19jun10-en.pdf .
If we are to meet the target issue date of July 1 (next Monday!), we need to finalize everything quickly, so I ask for all comments and suggestions to arrive no later that 12:00 UTC on Friday, June 28.
If there are any crucial edits to them RFP itself, please submit them as soon as possible to allow discussion.
Alan