[council] Draft Principles for Cross-SO/AC Working Groups (CWGs)

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

Further to the email below and as a base for further discussion, please find 
the link to, and a copy of the Draft Principles for Cross-SO/AC Working Groups 
(CWGs) that were discussed during the GNSO Council meeting yesterday, Thursday 
19 May 2011.

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-cwg-principles-19may11-en.pdf

Draft Principles for Cross-SO/AC Working Groups (CWGs)

1. Scope of CWGs -
1.1. The purpose of CWGs should be limited to : 1) providing a discussion forum 
to achieve greater community understanding of issues of common interest; or 2) 
providing advice to the ICANN staff, community and/or ICANN Board on issues of 
common interest. 1.2. CWGs may not be used to develop new consensus policy. 
Each SO has its own rules for developing new policy.

2. Practices for CWGs --
2.1. GNSO Working Group Guidelines (or similar defined) should apply to all 
CWGs whenever possible. Exceptions should be detailed, and explained, in the 
charter for the CWG. 2.2. All CWGs should be chartered by the applicable SOs 
and ACs (including those initiated by the Board) and each SO and AC should 
approve a single charter. 2.3. The Charter should speak to the outcomes 
expected of the group and the steps that must be followed for review of those 
outcomes by the chartering SOs and ACs. 2.4. CWGs should be expected to follow 
the approved charter. If a concern arises, it should be brought to all 
chartering organizations for resolution according to Working Group Guidelines. 
2.5. The Final Reports and Outcomes of all CWGs should be communicated to the 
chartering organizations (only) for review and further action. 2.6. The 
participating SOs and ACs will make time commitments to finalize actions so as 
not to unreasonably delay action on a CWG report. 2.7. SOs and ACs should make 
all reasonable efforts to solicit and consider the views of other SOs and ACs 
and to try to accommodate diverging views where possible before finalizing 
their positions. 2.8. If the work of a CWG leads to a policy recommendation, 
that recommendation would still need to be considered and approved through the 
appropriate Policy Development Process.

Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Glen de Saint Géry 
Sent: vendredi 20 mai 2011 00:23
To: Council GNSO
Subject: Community Working Groups

Dear All,

In response to the action item arising from Item 6: Community Working Groups 
on the GNSO Council agenda
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-council-19may11-en.htm

This is a reminder that the following people volunteered to work on this topic 
and are subscribed to the mailing list
<Gnso-ccwg-dt@xxxxxxxxx> with public archives at:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-ccwg-dt/

Jonathan Robinson
Rosemary Sinclair
Wendy Seltzer
Bill Drake
Jaime Wagner
Jeff Neuman
Tim Ruiz

It was agreed that this topic will be on the 9 June GNSO Council agenda. 
Jonathan Robinson is to take the lead in stimulating discussions in view of 
presenting a report from the drafting team at the Singapore meetings. However 
it was cautioned that a busy time lies ahead with the new gTLD program as well 
as preparations for the Singapore meetings and this should not be taken as 
disinterest in the group. 

Thnak you.
Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org