March 2019 - Gnso-igo-ingo-crp

ICANN64 GAC Communique & IGO PDP
by George Kirikos March 14, 2019

March 14, 2019

Hi folks, The GAC published their communique for ICANN64, see: https://gac.icann.org/contentMigrated/icann64-kobe-communique Text relevant to the IGO PDP: "3. IGO Protections The GAC appreciates the Board’s response to GAC advice in the recent scorecard document and would like to note that during the Kobe Meeting the GAC has had fruitful exchanges with the GNSO Council regarding the possibility of restarting the PDP on curative protections, under conditions amenable to all interested parties, including IGOs and interested GAC members, with a view to achieving mutually acceptable results. At that meeting, the GAC indicated that there should be a timeline with a targeted date associated with such a course of action." (page 7) Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/

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IGO PDP was the model for consensus determination in the EPDP on WHOIS!
by George Kirikos March 9, 2019

March 9, 2019

Hi folks, Just to change topics briefly, it's worth noting that Kurt Pritz, chair of the EPDP on WHOIS, posted an email to that mailing list a couple of weeks ago, describing how he determined the consensus level designations, see: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-February/001710.html The important section is at: "We particularly examined the Curative Rights PDP, IGO/NGO PDP and the Registration Abuse Policies WG (and others). In those we found examples of designations of consensus where 4 of 15 members disagreed or representatives of three different GNSO groups disagreed." In other words, our own consensus level designations have now been "battle tested" vs the EPDP on WHOIS, which compared their own designation level methodology with our own. Importantly, the GNSO Council *adopted* the Final Report of the EPDP on WHOIS. I believe that this helps demonstrate that GNSO Council needs to approve our final report's recommendations and send it to the ICANN Board, otherwise it would be inconsistent with Council's **own vote** on that EPDP. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/

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ICANN64 sessions that might be of interest to IGO PDP working group members
by George Kirikos March 9, 2019

March 9, 2019

Hi folks, I went through the posted schedule for ICANN64: https://64.schedule.icann.org/ https://64.schedule.icann.org/meetings?classes[]=Groups%3A%3AMeetings%3A%3A… to see if there might be sessions that relate to the IGO PDP, and here's what I found that might be of interest to monitor, to ensure that the Consensus Recommendations that we achieved as a working group are respected: 1. Japan local time, Saturday March 9, 15:15-16:45 (Toronto time: Saturday, 1:15 am) GAC meeting, IGO topic is on the agenda. https://64.schedule.icann.org/meetings/961947 2. Japan local time, Sunday, March 10, 15:15-16:15 (Toronto time: Sunday March 10, 1:15 am) GAC meeting with the GNSO, IGO topic is on the agenda) https://64.schedule.icann.org/meetings/961954 There's Adobe Connect capability for both sessions. If there are other sessions that might be of interest, please share. To my knowledge, there's no scheduled vote by GNSO Council on the IGO PDP final report's consensus recommendations during ICANN64. By the way, there's a time change in Canada/USA this weekend, so folks might want to be extra-careful when converting between time zones for events at ICANN64 (I used https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html for the conversions to Toronto time). Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/

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