The GNSO twitter feed was established in close co-ordination with the Council leadership and is managed by ICANN policy staff as a mechanism to inform and reach out to the GNSO and broader community in relation to topics / issues that are deemed of interest to the GNSO. As you may have noticed, we do take great care that the tweets are always factual, referring either to recent decisions, reports, posts from the GNSO or ICANN. As Internet Governance has featured highly on the agenda for the broader community as well as the GNSO, tweets related to that topic have also been included (but again, always referring to official posts / information and not expressing any particular opinion). However, if that is considered to be problematic, we are happy to refrain from including Internet Governance related tweets from now on if that's what the Council would prefer.
Dear Council Members,
One of our constituency members noted that the “GNSO” is tweeting about Internet governance matters generally, on initiatives that are outside the current activity list of the GNSO. The registries think this is inappropriate and that the GNSO twitter feed
should not be used for general ICANN issues. What can we do to rein in the twitter posts being sent on our behalf?
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Bret Fausett, Esq. • General Counsel, Uniregistry, Inc.
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 200 • Playa Vista, CA 90094-2536
310-496-5755 (T) • 310-985-1351 (M) •
bret@uniregistry.com
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