Dear All,

On behalf of the small team (Keith, Susan, Stephanie, Paul and Donna – on behalf of Council leadership), please find attached the proposed text for the EPDP charter in relation to EPDP Team Composition. The small team met on Friday and further considered the input and proposals discussed during the DT meeting earlier this week. As a result, in summary, the small team is recommending that:

• GNSO Members are appointed by GNSO Stakeholder Groups (SG).
  • Each Contracted Party House Stakeholder Group (Registries SG and Registrars SG) may appoint up to 3 Members + 3 Alternates,
  • Each Non-Contracted Party House SG, namely the Commercial Stakeholder Group and the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group, may appoint 6 Members + 3 Alternates (for the Commercial Stakeholder Group this is further broken down to 2 Members + 1 Alternate per Constituency).
• The ALAC, SSAC and ccNSO will be invited to appoint 2 members + 2 Alternates
• The GAC will be invited to appoint 3 members + 3 Alternates
• In addition, descriptions have been added to this section to clarify the differences between the roles of members, alternates, observers, Board liaisons, GNSO Council Liaison and Staff Liaisons.

If there are any fundamental concerns about these recommendations or any other parts of the proposed text, please share those with the DT list as soon as possible. Note that the call for volunteers will need to be updated in accordance with these recommendations, if no objections are raised.

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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