Re: [council] WG to Protect Rights

[Liz Williams <liz.williams@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck

Thanks for your note.

The follow up work has been going on behind the scenes with Dan  
Halloran and I working with Ute and Kristina to help with the  
statement of work.  Unfortunately, Dan and I were completely consumed  
with internal new TLDs implementation planning meetings last week --  
in preparation for the meetings in LA next week.

However, I have spoken with Dan again yesterday and emailed Kristina  
and Ute and we should have that all straightened out by COB today.

Could I agree with your suggestion to have the Council appoint an  
interim chair and populate the group with a small number of  
volunteers to kick things off?  As soon as that is done, I can set up  
the first working call and get cracking on it.

As I identified to Kristina, we do have some very tight time frames  
to deal with but it will get done.

Kind regards.

Liz
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Liz Williams
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN - Brussels
+32 2 234 7874 tel
+32 2 234 7848 fax
+32 497 07 4243 mob




On 14 Feb 2007, at 01:44, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> I have not seen any follow-up regarding the Working Group to  
> Protect Rights.  My understanding from our special meeting was that  
> we approved the WG with the understanding that the draft SoW would  
> be modified to address concerns communicated in the meeting.  What  
> is the status of that?
>
> Unfortunately, I think we failed to appoint an interim chair and to  
> request names of volunteers.  In that regard, I would like to get  
> the ball rolling by communicating that the following have  
> volunteered from the RyC: Jeff Neuman, David Maher and Edmon Chung.
>
> It seems to me that we need to urgently get this WG started;  
> otherwise, there may be unnecessary delays in the Dec05 PDP work.
>
> Chuck Gomes
>
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