August 2005 - council - lists.icann.org

RE: [council] Council planning call
by Bruce Tonkin 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Agreed - a single spreadsheet listing all projects, resources, and milestones would be very helpful. Regards, Bruce > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org > [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard > Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 5:36 PM > To: council(a)gnso.icann.org > Subject: RE: [council] Council planning call > > Bruce, > your ideas for a GNSO plan are welcome. The exercise need not > be overly burdensome. > Such a document should be a management tool not a redundant > bit of additional information. > > I hope however, in case our staff, are getting worried about > endless plans and no action, that the plan you discuss can in > effect be a more detailed version of the existing issues list > authored by Maria each month. > > Turning this into a spread sheet with time lines (more > detailed for current > issues) and targets (think project management) would serve as > one unique tool for use of: > - GNSO Council (to do our job) > - Board (to see what we do) > - Staff (to do their job). > > I would hate to see we start writing three or more separate > documents which in essence all have the same objective. > > Philip > >

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On the use of 'fairness'
by Avri Doria 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi, To reiterate, and go further, on my comment about not exorcising the word 'fairness' from the frames of reference. I believe that the importance of the concept and term fairness stems from the relative notion of fairness, i.e. something is not fair unless both sides see something as fair from their subjective viewpoint. Nothing can automatically be called fair from one side of an issue. The importance of this is that it keeps every actor aware that they must take the perspective of the other into account. I think that this is also something that falls on the ombus-process if the actors cannot agree on the fairness of something, i.e. it goes to an impartial venue that can take all pints of view into account. Additionally the notion of fairness is set in the core values of ICANN which is supposed to motivate our actions within the organization and the council. To indicate that this notion does not apply to the council or to a review of the council's work may give the appearance of setting ourselves outside the core values. this is probably an appearance we should try to avoid. I also think that item 4(a) under H > Interpretation and examination of the use of concepts used in the > By Laws such as “open and transparent manner”, “fairness”, > “consensus”, “bottom-up policy development” is required. > > indicates that the concepts involved in determining fairness should be explicit and examined. I think this is important as it not only serves to make the word understandable, but then gives the ombus- office criteria it can use when having to determine whether a claim of unfairness is justified. Bascially I think that the requirement is such that in every situation the precise content of what makes something fair or not cannot be defined before hand. the requirement for fairness, forces the council to due diligence in terms of inspecting all sides of every issue. a.

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RE: GNSO Council Meeting Thursday September 1, 12:00 UTC
by Alick Wilson 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Glen/Bruce Do we have a detailed agenda for this call? I believe that prior to an open discussion on the substantive matter of new TLDs we should have 1. Draft project planning and administrative material. 2. A whitepaper or the like, which incorporates history and identifies possible options and analyses those options. We should ask the staff to provide these items for us. Perhaps we can cover these items in the forthcoming administrative call, but in the meantime, I would appreciate a detailed agenda. Thanks and regards, Alick -----Original Message----- From: GNSO.SECRETARIAT(a)GNSO.ICANN.ORG [mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org] Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2005 5:58 p.m. To: Alick Wilson Subject: GNSO Council Meeting Thursday September 1, 12:00 UTC Dear Alick, Please note the dial-in info for the GNSO Council teleconference on new TLDs. CALL DATE: SEPTEMBER 1 2005 (Thursday) CALL TIME: 12:00 UTC. (5:00 Los Angeles, 8:00 Washington DC, 14:00 Brussels, 22:00 Melbourne) for other times see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html USA Toll Free Number: 888-396-9923 USA Toll Number: +1-212-519-0815 (UIFN) + 800-9293-6716 (See below for UIFN international access codes and carriers.) LEADER: MS GLEN DESAINTGERY PASSCODE: COUNCIL For security reasons, the passcode and the leader's name will be required to join your call. UIFN INTERNATIONAL ACCESS CODES & CARRIERS ========================================== Country Access Code Carrier AUSTRALIA 0011 OPTUS AUSTRALIA 0011 TELSTRA BELGIUM 00 BELGACOM DENMARK 00 TELE DANMARK FRANCE 00 FRANCE TELECOM GERMANY 00 DEUTSCHE TELECOM HONG KONG 001 HONG KONG TELECOM HONG KONG 001 PCCW IRELAND 00 TELECOM IRELAND JAPAN 001 KDDI JAPAN 0033 NPT JAPAN 0061 C&W IDC JAPAN 0041 JAPAN TELECOM MALAYSIA 00 TELECOM MALAYSIA MALAYSIA 53 ITFS NEW ZEALAND 00 TELECOM NEW ZEALAND SINGAPORE 001 SINGAPORETEL SWITZERLAND 00 SWISS TELECOM UNITED KINGDO 00 BT UNITED KINGDO 00 CABLE AND WIRELESS Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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FW: Nomination of gTLD Registry Constituency for the Who is TF
by Bruce Tonkin 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

-----Original Message----- From: Marie.Zitkova(a)sita.aero [mailto:Marie.Zitkova@sita.aero] Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:48 AM To: Bruce Tonkin Subject: Nomination of gTLD Registry Constituency for the Who is TF Dear Bruce, As indicated in previous email exchange, the gTLD Registries Constituency has reviewed its representation in the task force and elected one more representative. Following a recent vote, Tuli Day (tuli.day(a)sita.aero), SITA's Legal Director responsible for Europe was elected as an additional representative of the constituency to this task force. Best regards, Marie Marie Zitkova Chair, gTLD Registries Constituency

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RE: [council] Letter from Paul Twomey regarding ICANN strategic planning process
by Bruce Tonkin 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Hello All, Below is the text from the ICANN website on the stat plan process: http://www.icann.org/strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/ Note the raw output from the sessions run by Patrick Sharry is available, along with the list of questions considered. Regards, Bruce STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTATION PROCESS 2005 In 2004, ICANN released its first strategic plan. July 2005 marks the beginning of the six-month strategic planning cycle to revise and roll forward the three-year plan. An outline of the process for the next six months can be found here </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/outline-2005.pdf> . At the Luxembourg meeting, ICANN conducted a number of consultation sessions seeking the views of the community on the July 2006 - June 2009 Strategic Plan. Sessions were run for SOs, ACs and other constituency groups, and general consultation sessions were conducted in English, French and Spanish. The raw output from these sessions is attached here </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/output.pdf> . An issues paper which summarises this output and the responses that have been received to the questions posted on the site will be released early September. In addition, a report </meetings/luxembourg/captioning-pf1-13jul05.htm> by the President at the Luxembourg meeting allowed all members of the community to understand the current status of key initiatives. Members of the ICANN community are invited to contribute to the consultation process by becoming involved through their constituency, supporting organization or advisory committee, or by responding individually to the questions that are being used in the consultation process. This includes both the original set of questions (English </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/questions.html> | Spanish </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/questions-spanish.html> | French </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/questions-french.html> ) and additional questions (English </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/additional-questions.html> | Spanish </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/additional-questions-spanish.h tml> | French </strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/additional-questions-french.ht ml> ). If you are responding to these questions via the public comment forum on the web-site, it is not required that you respond to all the questions. Also, if you are responding to these questions via the public comment forum on the website, please refer to the question number (letter and number) at the start of your answer to each question. Please write your responses to <stratplan-questions(a)icann.org>. The responses can be viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/stratplan-questions. Please respond by Friday 2 September so that your input can be included in the issues paper that will be released in early September.

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GNSO Review: Council Call Follow-Up
by Liz Williams 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Colleagues Just a quick note to remind everyone that COB Brussels time was the cut off for further comments from last week's conference call. Of course, I am delighted to incorporate further commentary but it won't be included for the next iteration which is documentation for Thursday 8 Sept. I am now preparing two documents which will be distributed later this week: a detailed Terms of Reference document and a separate Background Information document. Kind regards. Liz Liz Williams Senior Policy Counselor ICANN - Brussels Tel: +32 2 234 7874 Fax: +32 2 234 7848 Mob: +61 414 26 9000

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GNSO Council draft minutes 18 August 2005
by GNSO SECRETARIAT 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear Council members, Please find attached the draft minutes of the GNSO Council teleconference held on 18 August 2005. Please let me know what changes you would like made. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Council - Staff work planning call
by Grant FORSYTH 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Bruce and Olof I am wondering when the first Council - Staff work planning call is to be scheduled? I somehow feel that the suggested calls to happen every other week, got smothered in the subsequent scheduled calls of Council on other substantive matters. I would like to request that a planning call be scheduled this week or early next week and be open to whichever Councillors wish to join - it would be desirable for those Councillors who intend to join the call to let Glen know. My suggested agenda items for the first call would be: 1. Discussion and agreement as to more effective working relationship with staff 2. Production of comprehensive monthly status report (including section identifying future possible work for Council). (Ross Rader has raised the very real issue of the building workload and un specified priorities) [This is an item I am happy to spend more time (off line) developing with a particular staff member whom Olof might want to nominate] 3. Review of staff roles and time availability - we are still waiting for Olof to provide this to Council so that Council can understand who is available to work on what and what contribution can be expected from each particular staff 4. General discussion on improving effectiveness of reporting and support for each Council meeting I look forward to progressing this and building on the good work done to date. Regards Grant Forsyth Manager Industry & Regulatory Affairs TelstraClear Cnr Taharoto & Northcote Roads Private Bag 92143 AUCKLAND ph +64 9 912 5759 fx + 64 9 912 4077 Mb 029 912 5759

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RE: [council] On the use of 'fairness'
by Bruce Tonkin 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Hello All, In the context of bylaws, and rules and procedures used within constituencies, I interpret fairness around having a set of rules to guide process, and applying those rules consistently. Some possible definitions of fairness: 1. conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim" [syn: equity] [ant: unfairness] 2: ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty [syn: fair-mindedness, candor, candour] [ant: unfairness] 3: the property of having a naturally light complexion [syn: paleness, blondness] 4: the quality of being good looking and attractive [syn: comeliness, loveliness, beauteousness] I am assuming that the bylaws are not referring to definitions 3 and 4 above. Regards, Bruce

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GNSO Review additional comments
by Thomas Keller 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Liz, one issue that I think has not been mentioned before is related to the workload the GNSO has. As it is the overall perception that the GNSO policy making process should deal with arising topics in a fast and effective manner the amount of topics must be considered also to have an good measure on the effectiveness. This leads to questions all related to the issue of workload. - How many topics has the GNSO been working on? - How do topics arise? - How many different persons have been involved working on topics? - How do the constituencies handle the amount of topics? - How do the constituencies deal with the PDP process? - How many topics have been resolved? - Has the amount of new topics delayed or in any other way slowed down the solution of already running policy processes? - How many topics can be dealed with at the time by Council/Constituencies? - Should new topics be taken on before old topics have been resolved? - Should topics be able to run for a undetermined length of time? Best, tom -- Thomas Keller Domain Services Schlund + Partner AG Brauerstrasse 48 Tel. +49-721-91374-534 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany Fax +49-721-91374-215 http://www.schlund.de tom(a)schlund.de

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