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November 2014

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Face to face facilitated Working Group session at ICANN52 in February 2015
by Mary Wong Nov. 4, 2014

Nov. 4, 2014

Dear WG members, At the GNSO Council¹s wrap up meeting in Los Angeles earlier this month, the Council discussed the selection of the next Working Group that it thought would be at a stage to benefit from the pilot project it is testing in this financial year (FY15). The pilot project is basically a one-day face to face meeting of a selected Working Group at an ICANN Public Meeting, with the objective of assisting that selected WG to complete its work effectively and efficiently through a full-day session run by a professional as well as a community-based facilitator. As our WG is making good progress such as to be on track for completing many of our chartered tasks by the ICANN53 Public Meeting in June 2015, the Council has selected our WG for the one-day facilitated session at ICANN52 in February 2015. This will be the second group selected for this one-year pilot project, the first having been the Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues PDP Working Group in Los Angeles. Feedback given by that WG following their one-day session indicates that they found it extremely helpful in working through some difficult questions and in further making progress toward completion of their work. Please note that funding for the one-day session is provided only for one or two nights¹ hotel accommodation; it does not cover airfare or other travel costs. In order to ensure sufficient representation at the meeting by the broad diversity of interests represented in the GNSO and other ICANN groups, each GNSO Stakeholder Group/Constituency and all other participating Supporting Organization/Advisory Committees will each be assigned 6 hotel nights (so that each group can nominate between 3 to 6 members to attend, for 1 to 2 nights each.) With this in mind, staff therefore proposes that the one-day session take place on the Friday immediately following the official end of the ICANN meeting, i.e. Friday 13 February 2015. Some of you may have heard that ICANN is currently considering postponing the February 2015 meeting due to the possibility of travel restrictions to Marrakech being placed on ICANN community members: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-10-26-en. I do not at this time have any updated information or confirmation of either a continuation, postponement or cancellation of the Marrakech meeting; however, should the meeting go ahead as planned, staff wanted you to have as much notice as possible of the additional meeting day for our WG. You may wish to note also that if your travel to ICANN52 will be covered at least in part by ICANN Constituency Travel, I am informed that the names and travel dates of ICANN-sponsored travelers will need to be submitted by 10 November 2014. Please look out for further notices about this and the fate of the Marrakech meeting from my colleagues who are involved in meeting and travel planning. I¹d be happy to provide more information about the one-day facilitated session on our call tomorrow. Thanks and cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: +1 603 574 4892 Email: mary.wong(a)icann.org

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FW: Letter from Steve Crocker to GAC Chair regarding GNSO/GAC role in gTLD policy development
by Mary Wong Nov. 4, 2014

Nov. 4, 2014

Dear WG members, Staff supporting this WG thought that you may be interested in the letter recently sent by Board Chair Dr Steve Crocker to Thomas Schneider, new GAC Chair (see message and link below). Although the activities referred to in Dr Crocker¹s letter do not have a direct bearing on our WG¹s activities, in light of the WG¹s discussion regarding questions to be sent back to the GAC via the GNSO Council and the GAC-GNSO liaison Mason Cole, we thought this might be helpful to your deliberations. Thanks and cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: +1 603 574 4892 Email: mary.wong(a)icann.org > Dear Council members, > > You and your communities will likely be interested in the latest letter sent > by Board Chair Steve Crocker to new GAC Chair Thomas Schneider, responding to > that part of the GAC advice in its London Communique in which the GAC > commented that protections for Red Cross designations ought not to be > conditioned on a PDP: > https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/crocker-to-schneider-0… > v14-en.pdf > > Pertinent parts of Dr Crocker¹s letter include the following excerpt: "While > the GAC may participate in the policy development process, and has a role to > ³provide advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of > governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between > ICANN¹s policies and various laws and international agreements or where they > may affect public policy issues,² the GNSO has the authority to recommend > substantive policies on topics that are within the scope of ICANN¹s mission > statement, has potentially broad applicability to multiple situations or > organizations, is likely to have lasting value or applicability, and will > establish a guide or framework for future decision-making. The Board has > concerns about the advice in the London Communiqué because it appears to be > inconsistent with the framework established in the Bylaws granting the GNSO > authority to recommend consensus policies to the Board, and the Board to > appropriately act upon policies developed through the bottom-up consensus > policy developed by the GNSO.² > > Dr Crocker¹s letter also serves to ³kick off² the prescribed Board-GAC > consultation process envisaged in the ICANN Bylaws in instances where the > Board disagrees with GAC advice. > > Cheers > Mary > > Mary Wong > Senior Policy Director > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) > Telephone: +1 603 574 4892 > Email: mary.wong(a)icann.org > >

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