Dear JAS WG Co-Chairs,
As one of the two
chartering AC/SOs of the JAS WG, the ALAC would like to offer
certain recommendations for your consideration, in order to
boost the WG’s efforts efficiently forward at this point.
It is the ALAC’s hope that these recommendations will be
taken in the spirit in which they are intended – as guidance
rooted in the shared goal of having the JAS WG fulfil its
mandate within the agreed timetable.
The ALAC recommends
that the JAS WG – starting with its conference call on Friday, 29
April – thoroughly review the “JAS Issues and Recommendations” summary
document (located at https://community.icann.org/display/jaswg/JAS+Issues+and+Recommendations),
created by the JAS Drafting Team. This
document, once complete, will define and summarize the JAS WG’s
consensus on a select number of important high-level issues,
particularly:
-
Part 3: the
required criteria of applicants qualifying for support (i.e.
who can qualify), bringing the element of formulation of
these criteria from Part 5 into this part; and
-
To a lesser
extent, Part 4: what these applicants can expect to get.
These issues are
covered by the parts on which the ALAC recommends the WG most
strongly focus. As per the WG's Charter, substantive outcome is
sought particularly in these issues.
The goal of this
review would be to facilitate the JAS WG’s discussion –
and resolution – of those aspects of this document that are
still incomplete or for which there is still no clear WG
consensus.
Please note that many of these unresolved issues are currently
marked in red within the document. We believe
that the needed agreement on this small number of high-level
issues can be reached without the WG’s also having to
agree, at this time, on the many underlying details it has been
discussing.
Specifically, the
ALAC recommends that the JAS WG go about the review of this
document – and reaching agreement on the issues it covers – in
the following way:
- This document
review could be efficiently moderated by the JAS WG pen holder,
Evan Leibovitch.
- The document
should be displayed in the meeting’s Adobe Connect Room so
that all members are, quite literally, on the same page.
- The changes on
which the JAS WG agrees should be made to the document during the
discussion itself – that is, "in real time" during the WG’s
meeting.
It is the ALAC’s
hope that the JAS WG, by focusing its work in this way
immediately (as of its 29 April meeting), will be able to
successfully reach a consensus on a number of fundamental issues
in the few meetings it still has before the 6 May deadline for
reporting on the time critical key issues and its charters from
GNSO and ALAC to be completed.
I and other members
of the ALAC Executive Committee would welcome the opportunity to
discuss these suggestions with you further.
Kind regards,
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ALAC Chair