Olivier, Thank you for CCing me on this. I am copying the GNSO Council so that they may read your message as well. Let me add that although I was not consulted prior to this message being sent, or informed that you would send it, I can personally support it and the defence of the bottom up policy development process that it represents. Thanks, Stéphane Envoyé de mon iPhone4 Le 15 avr. 2011 à 14:37, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> a écrit :
To: Peter Dengate Thrush CC: Board Secretary CC: Stéphane Van Gelder CC: ALAC ExCom CC: ICANN At-Large Staff CC: Karla Valente CC: JAS Working Group Co-Chairs - Rafik Dammak (GNSO) and Carlton Samuels (ALAC)
Dear Peter,
In the recent ALAC Executive Committee conference call of 14 April 2011, the possibility was discussed that the Board might have enquired about the progress of the Joint SO/AC Work Group on New gTLD Applicant Support (JAS WG) via an ICANN staff member supporting the Work Group.
As you know, due process dictates that Board enquiries regarding this WG are supposed to go to the Chairs of the Work Group's chartering SO and AC. However, neither I, as the ALAC Chair, nor Stéphane Van Gelder, the GNSO Council Chair, have received any such queries from the Board. The request was passed unconventionally onto the JAS WG, and has ultimately distracted much of the WG's valuable time away from its core task during the past week.
In order to avoid the communication process becoming a contentious matter, I kindly urge you to request the CEO/Senior Staff of ICANN to ensure that such queries respect the customary procedure of sending any Board enquiries regarding WG's (and particularly Cross Community WG's) via the Chair/Leadership designated with the authority to be primary point of communication with any such WG (in this case the ALAC and the GNSO Council Chairs).
In the meantime, let me assure you that the JAS WG's work is challenging but enjoying significant progress, and the WG is on track to complete its mandate successfully. I should be grateful if you could confirm a time-line when you would need its final report to reach you.
Kind regards,
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair