[council] Renewed Call for Volunteers: Drafting Team to Develop Charter for a GNSO Working Group on GNSO Metrics & Reporting

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Renewed Call for Volunteers: Drafting Team to Develop Charter for a GNSO 
Working Group on GNSO Metrics & Reporting

http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06sep13-en.htm
Date: 6 September 2013
In Brief

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.

What This Team Will Do

The Drafting Team is expected to develop a Charter on the basis of the GNSO 
Working Group 
Guidelines<http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf>
 taking into account the Final Issue Report on Uniformity of 
Reporting<http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/uofr-final-31mar13-en.pdf>, 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.

How This Team Will Work

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<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/New+SOIs>). The group will 
collaborate using a public workspace. The Drafting Team is expected to follow 
the GNSO Working Group 
Guidelines<http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf>.

How to Join

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<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxx?subject=Application%20to%20Join%20Uniformity%20of%20Reporting%20Drafting%20Team>
 (gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxx>).

Background

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<http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/uofr-final-31mar13-en.pdf> 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<http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/uofr>.

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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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