Thanks Greg. Jeff has provided a lot of background as to why the policy was developed as it was in each case. It occurs to me after today's informal discussion (recording previously provided to the Council list) that with respect to matters where Council may want to affirm policy recommendations as written, the GNSO Input Process may be the appropriate tool. I'm sure we will be looking at this in the small team. For example, when Becky presented the scorecard last week, there were a couple of times that she mentioned a possible limited ByLaws amendment in order to effect the policy and alleviate Board concerns re scope of Mission and associated risk. It's worth discussing whether, in such cases, the Council should affirm the policy as recommended and ask the Board to act on the limited ByLaws amendments, assuming no objection from the Empowered Community on the point in each case. (If we anticipate an Empowered Community objection process, that's a different story.) It strikes me that much of the Board's commentary on the 38 items is grounded in risk management principles. Anne Anne Aikman-Scalese GNSO Councilor NomCom Non-Voting 2022-2024 anneicanngnso@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 2:32 PM DiBiase, Gregory via council < council@gnso.icann.org> wrote:
Hi Councilors,
FYI- Forwarding comments on the Board’s SubPro Scorecard that our colleague Jeff sent to the Board as they may be helpful to Council’s consideration of the Board’s questions and concerns.
Thanks,
Greg
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*From:* Jeff Neuman <jeff@jjnsolutions.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 7, 2023 10:29 AM *To:* Tripti.sinha@board.icann.org <Tripti.sinha@board.icann.org>; Becky Burr <becky.burr@board.icann.org>; avri.doria@board.icann.org < avri.doria@board.icann.org> *Cc:* Sebastien Ducos <sebastien@registry.godaddy> *Subject:* Comments on Board SubPro Scorecard
Tripti Sinha, Chair
ICANN Board of Directors
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles
CA 90094-2536
Dear Tripti,
I understand that the ICANN Board of Directors recently sent to the Generic Names Supporting Organization some documents containing a “scorecard” related to issues/concerns with some of the Outcomes of the Final Report to the recent Policy Development Process on Subsequent Procedures for the Introduction of New gTLDs.
Although I am personally technically on the GNSO Council as the GNSO Liaison to the GAC, I am not formally a member of the Council with respect to substantive issues such as responding to the ICANN Board comments on the SubPro PDP. That said, as you may be aware, I was one of the Co-Chairs of the SubPro PDP Working Group and worked very closely with the entire Working Group on those Outcomes. I was also formerly appointed as the GNSO Council Liaison to the SubPro PDP’s Operational Design Phase. That appointment ended with the delivery of the Operational Design Assessment.
As integrally involved in the SubPro PDP, I wanted to provide you and the ICANN Board with my personal comments on the Scorecard as I know discussions are ongoing with the Council. I hope these comments help you in your desire to close out all remaining issues so that we can get the next round(s) launched as soon as possible. I have been working intimately with these issues now for most of this past decade and my main interest is to see this move forward. These comments are very much drafted in an informal outline manner though I can expand on any and all of them.
I will be in Cancun for ICANN 76 and would be happy to discuss this further with you and with Becky, Avri and the rest of the ICANN Board if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey J. Neuman
Cc: Sebastien Ducos, GNSO Council Chair
Jeffrey J. Neuman
Founder & CEO
JJN Solutions, LLC
Jeff@JJNSolutions.com
+1.202.549.5079
Http://www.jjnsolutions.com
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