Thanks Chris. In Focus Area 4, aside from saying that they will continue to implement ATRT recommendations, and recognizing that ICANN will come under greater scrutiny and review, the only new language that appears to be ethics-related is "ICANN will continue to evolve Board of Director policies to reflect best practices in multi-stakeholder model governance." (p. 17) That's pretty general. It also makes no reference to best practices for staff, not just the Board. And it's not clear what other multi-stakeholder entities they may be looking toward to gauge best practices, as ICANN is fairly unique in its operating style. So I, for one, will be interested in hearing actual details in the ethics area described in Dakar. I am also particularly interested in whether ICANN believes that California law prevents it from imposing post-employment occupational restrictions, because if that is the case it may well feed additional criticism of ICANN's operational model - as a California non-profit corporation with enforcement powers limited strictly to contractual compliance with contracted parties. Finally, in regard to contracted parties, while there is a reference on p. 10 to improving "the contractual compliance regime for registrars and registries" in relation to reducing registration abuse and malicious conduct, there is not a hint of implementing contracts with UDRP providers (and it's unclear to me whether URS providers for new gTLDs will be placed under contract or simply accredited and left to go their merry way). Last year the BC called for a halt in accreditation of any new UDRP providers under a standard agreement was entered into with all incumbent providers. See you, and many BC members, in Dakar. Safe travel. Best, Philip 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 "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Chris Chaplow Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 3:43 PM To: 'Bc-Gnso' Subject: [bc-gnso] 2012-2015 Strategic Plan Dear Members Just a notify that draft 2012-2015 Strategic Plan was published a few days ago both in clean and red-line versions. http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-6-03oct11-en.htm Community input requested during Dakar. Closing date 17th November. It will be republished (without further comment period) for board approval in Dec. This is a earlier timetable than last year (publish 25 Nov 2010 and close extended to 25th Jan 2011) Last year comment can be found here http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201101-en.htm#draft-st... The metrics for achievement of Strategic objectives have been well modified and community feedback is specifically requested in this area. Chris Martin and Phil Corwin and others who as individuals, have spoken on the ethics and integrity challenges should consult "Focus Area Four" - "A healthy internet governance eco-system" and offer us an thoughts on this and any changes in the plans' direction. Other members please offer insight into the other three focus areas or your interest, namely DNS Stability and Security Competition consumer trust and consumer choice Core operations including IANA best Chris Chaplow Managing Director Andalucia.com S.L. Avenida del Carmen 9 Ed. Puertosol, Puerto Deportivo 1ª Planta, Oficina 30 Estepona, 29680 Malaga, Spain Tel: + (34) 952 897 865 Fax: + (34) 952 897 874 E-mail: chris@andalucia.com<mailto:chris@andalucia.com> Web: www.andalucia.com<http://www.andalucia.com/> Information about Andalucia, Spain. ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com> Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3900 - Release Date: 09/16/11 Internal Virus Database is out of date.