All,

As you probably know by now, the Questionnaire was approved without objection by the CCWG Plenary.  A copy of the final version is attached.

We now need to work on the next steps of publishing and announcing the Questionnaire.

The time period the questionnaire will be open is under discussion in a different thread in the CCWG-Accountability mailing list.  I urge you to contribute to that discussion.

The method of publication of the Questionnaire needs to be finalized, as does the method (or methods) of submission of responses.

Method:

The Questionnaire could be published on a webpage of the ICANN site in text and  submissions could be made by email (with the response either in email text or in attachments).

Alternatively, the Questionnaire could be published as a survey, using www.surveymonkey.com or Google Forms or some other application.  Survey/form inputs can help the process of aggregating the answers (e.g., Google Forms puts the answers on a spreadsheet).  However, since the answers will be free text fields and links, and could include documentary attachments, a survey form may not be ideal.

If we publish the Questionnaire on the ICANN website, the next question is where and how will it be published?  

1.  One possibility is the ICANN Public Comment page.  The Public Comment page found at https://www.icann.org/public-comments describes Public Comments as follows: 

This is not a Public Comment, since we are not asking for comment on a proposal. It might be misleading to announce the questionnaire on the Public Comment page and to publish it on a page formatted like a Public Comment and under the public comment taxonomy.  The Public Comment pages contain a lot of additional explanatory text that is not appropriate here.

2.  Another possibility is to announce the questionnaire on the IANA Stewardship & Accountability home page at https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability.  This page is in the home page menu on https://www.icann.org/ (as is the Public Comment page).  The questionnaire can then be published under the stewardship-accountability taxonomy, and simply present the Questionnaire without other text.

There may be other possibilities.

Regardless, the Questionnaire can be publicized through the usual ICANN methods (e.g., News and Announcements on home page and News page (https://www.icann.org/news), ICANN Daily Digest, annouincements sent to SOAC contacts, etc.)

Please reply with any comments you may have.

Thanks!

Greg