Thanks Jeff. Good points. For me two key themes emerge: 1. Our need to demonstrate our critical role and function as the GNSO Council as well as our capacity to work effectively together in order to underpin that position. 2. Having established 1 above, the need coherently demonstrate the vital components (including ourselves) of the multi-stakeholder model that need to be preserved and defended. Neither of the above suggests an unwillingness to evolve and develop over time but we need to do so in an environment of mutual trust which is provided by respect for the overarching principles of the multi-stakeholder model. I can see that we need to touch on and/or emphasise variants of the above in: a. Our intro session on Saturday morning b. Our public meeting on Wednesday and c. In our meeting with the GAC, Board, CEO and ccNSO. Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Neuman, Jeff [mailto:Jeff.Neuman@neustar.us] Sent: 30 March 2013 12:05 To: 'Jonathan Robinson'; 'council@gnso.icann.org' Subject: RE: [council] FW: Letter of support ICANN - NOC AUT Thanks Jonathan. This flurry of letters is just the the beginning of what icann will see as the decision making becomes more top-down. If ICANN is successful as getting a unilateral right to amend in any form in the registry and registrar agreements, every group will be lobbying the icann board, staff and everyone else it can to get a top-down decision made without involving the multi-stakeholder process. Just look at what has happened already with this issue, the open vs closed debate, and the Strawman. Regardless of your stance on these issues, the amount of letters directly to the ICANN CEO has been staggering in the last couple of months compared the last several years. I believe this is happening because of the seemingly increased perception that this current board and staff is willing to push aside the multi-stakeholder process by calling things implementation and make top-down decisions. If icann is seen as an entity getting more involved in "consumer protection issues" or "competition authority type" decisions, as is reflected in the latest version of what has been called the "public interest amendment process" (which I call the Board Initiated Amendment process) this flurry of letters is just the tip of the iceberg in my opinion. All of this should be discussed in Beijing. Best regards, Jeffrey J. Neuman Sent from iPad. Please excuse any typos. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com] Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 07:55 AM Eastern Standard Time To: council@gnso.icann.org Subject: [council] FW: Letter of support ICANN - NOC AUT All, Please note the contents of the attached in relation to the protection of the words “Olympic” and “Olympiad”. I have been cc’d on a flurry of letters which, from what I have seen, are all essentially the same i.e. letters from national Olympic Committees to their respective Governments. Jonathan From: Elisabeth Traintinger [mailto:traintinger@olympia.at] Sent: 29 March 2013 10:53 To: christian.singer@bmvit.gv.at Cc: Heather.Dryden@ic.gc.ca; SRadell@ntia.doc.gov; mark.carvell@culture.gsi.gov.uk; jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com; cherine.chalaby@icann.org; fadi.chehade@icann.org; jbikoff@sgbdc.com; marianne.chappuis@olympic.org; howard.stupp@olympic.org; Peter MENNEL; Florian Gosch Subject: Letter of support ICANN - NOC AUT Dear Mr. Singer, on behalf of the Secretary General of the Austrian Olympic Committee, Mr. Peter Mennel, I would like to forward a letter regarding protection of the words “Olympic” and” Olympiad” in the expanding internet domain name space. Yours sincerely Elisabeth Traintinger ________________________________ AUSTRIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Elisabeth Traintinger Assistant Secretary General New adress & phone number Rennweg 46-50 / 2nd floor / Top 7 1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA T: +43 1 7995511 – 11 M: +43 664 4312231 F: +43 1 7995511 - 20 traintinger@olympia.at <mailto:gosch@olympia.at> http://www.olympia.at <http://www.olympia.at/> <http://www.facebook.com/OlympicTeamAustria> Finden Sie uns auf Facebook ZVR 530776223