Dear Council colleagues, I regretfully forward the email below from James Gannon re his decision to resign from SSR2 Review Team. Prior to receiving this message the GNSO Secretariat was in the process of scheduling a call between Council leadership and our GNSO reps to help determine how best to kick off a broader conversation within the GNSO. As you can see from my email below I have expressed to James Gannon that we're hopeful he might be willing to attend that call. Council leadership will put together an action plan for next steps and circulate this as soon as possible. In the meantime, any and all suggestions, inputs, ideas and comments, keenly encouraged via the list. Best wishes, Heather ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Heather Forrest <haforrestesq@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Resignation from SSR2 Review Team To: James Gannon <james@cyberinvasion.net> Dear James, I am very sorry to receive your email, not least because I feel that "the community" is not unified in this matter and the impression exists that all SOs and ACs feel that the Board acted appropriately. Certainly neither James nor I have received instructions to that effect, and the GNSO has been caught off guard, scrambling to discern what has led us to this bizarre point. The GNSO Secretariat is in the process of reaching out to you and your fellow GNSO members of SSR2 for a call to help us better understand where we are. I very much hope that you would be willing to participate, as without your perspective, it's very hard to know what we should be doing to support you (GNSO reps) and how/when to do that. On behalf of the GNSO I thank you most heartily for your service, and I appreciate any feedback you can give to help us improve as a Council and community. Best wishes, Heather Forrest On 09/12/2017 2:20 AM, "James Gannon" <james@cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
Hi All,
After much consideration and evaluation I have decided to resign from the
SSR2 review team. This is due in part to the changes in my personal life, my employment in a new role and also partly due to the situation that the SSR2 review currently finds itself in. I feel that its very unfortunate that there has seemingly been a loss in trust from the community in the review team and I feel that the work and dedication from the review team members should be recognised.
When the review (hopefully) restarts I hope that the community leaders
choose to make a strong declaration of support of their appointed members and empower them to run the independent review in the same fashion that the reviews were executed in previous years and iterations.
I hope to continue my involvement in the ICANN community including
representing the non RYSG GNSO community on the CSC.
I wish to wish the review team the very best of luck in executing against the plan and will likely sign up as an observer to the review team in the new year.
Regards, James Gannon