Dear Tony,
The Generic
Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council seeks volunteers to serve on a
Drafting Team (DT) that will develop a charter for a new Working Group (WG). The
GNSO Metrics & Reporting WG will be tasked with exploring opportunities with
respect to reporting and metrics recommendations that could better inform policy
development via fact-based decision making, where applicable. The Drafting Team
is expected to submit the proposed Charter to the GNSO Council for
approval.
The Drafting
Team is expected to develop a Charter on the basis of the GNSO Working Group Guidelines taking into account the
Final Issue Report on Uniformity of Reporting, which recommended that
such a Working Group should review how the community can collaborate with
contracted parties and other service providers in the sharing of complaint and
abuse data that may also further educate Registrants and Internet users in
submission of complaints to the appropriate party. Such a Working Group could
also investigate more formal processes for requests of data, metrics and other
reporting needs from the GNSO that may aid in GNSO policy development
efforts.
ICANN Working
Groups use transparent, open processes. The meetings of this DT will be
recorded, and the recordings will be available to the public. The mailing list
for the Drafting Team will be archived publicly. Drafting Team members are
expected to submit Statements of Interest (SOI). The group will collaborate using
a public workspace. The Drafting Team is expected to follow the GNSO Working Group Guidelines.
The GNSO Council
invites interested parties to provide names of expected participants who can
then be added to the DT mailing list. The DT will be open to anyone interested
to join. Community members who wish to be invited to join the group should
contact the GNSO secretariat (gnso.secretariat@icann.org).
In 2010, the
Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) identified in its Final Report
the 'need for more uniformity in the mechanisms to initiate, track, and analyze
policy-violation reports'. The RAPWG as a result recommended in its Final Report
that 'the GNSO and the larger ICANN community in general, create and support
uniform reporting processes'. The GNSO in collaboration with the community and
ICANN Contractual Compliance deliberated the issues through due diligence
analysis, a review of current state compliance reporting systems, and future
state implementation plans within ICANN. Based on the information gathered, the
GNSO Council recommended the creation of an Issue Report to further research metrics and
reporting needs in hopes to better aid the policy development process. The
report created by ICANN Staff further outlined accomplishments regarding
reporting and metrics for the Contractual Compliance function and it also
reviewed other reporting sources that may be of relevance.
On 9 May 2013,
the GNSO Council approved the report's recommendations to await any further
action regarding Contractual Compliance metrics and reporting until the
conclusion of their three-year plan towards the end of 2013. At such time the
GNSO Council will consider other actions, if any. In the meantime, the GNSO
Council also adopted the recommendation to form a non-PDP Working Group tasked
with exploring opportunities of reporting and metrics recommendations that could
better inform policy development via fact-based decision making, where
applicable. An availability review of both ICANN internal and external data
sources is expected to be performed to help inform the deliberations of the
WG.
More information
can be found on the GNSO Metrics & Reporting WG page.
Please let us know
if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Kind
regards,
Glen
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org