Dear All,

Following on from last week’s Council meeting, this is a call for volunteers from Council to establish a drafting team to develop a charter (incl. guidelines and parameters around scope, deliverables, membership, operating procedures, etc.) for a subsequent group intended to determine Council’s next steps for the ICANN Procedure For Handling Whois Conflicts with Privacy Law, taking into account the feedback received in the public comment forum on the new and possible alternative triggers for the ICANN Procedure For Handling Whois Conflicts with Privacy Law (see https://www.icann.org/public-comments/whois-privacy-law-2017-05-03-en and the subsequent letter from Akram Atallah https://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/atallah-to-bladel-et-al-01aug17-en.pdf).

Although it was initially foreseen that the drafting team would present a proposed charter in time for consideration during the upcoming December Council meeting, factoring in the short time between now and the document deadline (11 December), the Council leadership team considers it more realistic to have this as a discussion item for the December meeting. Specifically we would ask the charter drafting team to select a spokesperson to provide an update on the drafting team’s work to that point, to raise any specific issues on which input into the charter would facilitate completing its work to enable a motion on the charter at the January Council meeting.

In order to facilitate this effort, staff can prepare an initial draft of the charter template drawing from the different guidelines that are currently in existence (e.g. GNSO Working Group Guidelines and Implementation Review Team Guidelines), including an outline of different options that may have been tried and tested for some specific sections of the charter (for example, group composition). Although the subsequent group is focused on a very specific topic, it could serve as a model for how similar issues are dealt with in the future so as such it is important that due consideration is given to the formation and operation of this group.

Please let staff know if you are willing to volunteer for this effort by Monday 11 December. The GNSO Council leadership team hopes that at a minimum there will be one Council member volunteer from each Stakeholder Group to ensure that the different perspectives are represented.

Best regards,

Marika

Marika Konings

Vice President, Policy Development Support – GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 

Email: marika.konings@icann.org

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