[council] GAC /ICANN Board cooperation

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

Below is an extract from the GAC Communique regarding cooperation between GAC 
and ICANN Board, and the priority issues.  Note that new gTLDs, IDNs, and WHOIS 
are all listed as priority issues.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin


>From the GAC Communiqué:
http://gac.icann.org/web/communiques/gac24com.pdf


- GAC-ICANN Board cooperation 

The GAC welcomed the inaugural meeting of the Joint Working Group 
of the GAC and the ICANN Board. The Joint Working Group will be led 
by Alejandro Pisanty on behalf of the ICANN Board and Janis Karklins 
(Latvia) on behalf of the GAC. It was acknowledged that in the 
immediate term (from Wellington to Marrakesh), it would be important to 
improve the timeliness and efficiency of communications between the 
GAC and the ICANN Board. 

In order to achieve the objectives of enhanced cooperation within the 
ICANN context, the GAC acknowledges that there is a need for the GAC 
to consider changes in its working methods to enable it to interact more 
routinely with the ICANN Board and the community. 

Beyond this it was agreed that the working group should as a longer term 
issue focus on the role of the GAC vis-à-vis ICANN and the ICANN 
Board and it should lead to the creation of a better environment that 
facilitates the development and application of public policy principles. 

In particular, the GAC has identified the following issues as key priority 
areas for early engagement, namely: 

a) ccTLDs, 

b) IDNs, 

c) IPv6 and IP addressing resource allocation, 

d) Development and creation of policies on gTLDs, and 

e) WhoIS.