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Re: [council] updated draft letter
Thanks Wolf and everyone else who has responded to Thomas' call.
Are we now in a position for me to send the letter as it is now drafted?
Stéphane Van Gelder
Directeur Général / General manager
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Le 20 sept. 2012 à 22:12, <KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx> <KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> The ISPCP is supporting to send out this letter
>
> Best regards
> Wolf-Ulrich
>
>
>
> Von: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im
> Auftrag von Thomas Rickert
> Gesendet: Freitag, 14. September 2012 16:30
> An: GNSO Council List
> Betreff: [council] updated draft letter
>
> Dear all,
>
> as discussed during yesterday's call, please find below the draft letter
> regarding the impact of new gTLDs on ICANN's structure including the changes
> proposed by Stéphane.
>
> Please provide your comments and suggestions as soon as you can as the plan
> is to finalize the draft by the end of next week.
>
> Kind regards and have a great weekend,
> Thomas
>
>
> Dear Bertrand,
>
> the GNSO Council would like to thank you for the opportunity to provide
> feedback to your request for input on the impact of new gTLDs on ICANN's
> structure.
>
> As you know, the Council as well as individual SGs and Constituencies have
> been discussing this important subject for a long time now. It has also been
> a topic during face to face meetings between the GNSO Council and the Board
> and GAC as well as with the ccNSO. Some groups have already or will respond
> to the Board directly and our impression is that they are confident to have
> taken appropriate steps to address the upcoming challenges.
>
> As far as the Council is concerned, here will most likely be quantitative and
> qualitative challenges. What these will be and their size can hardly be
> predicted.
>
> In qualitative terms, there may be new requests to form constituencies and
> new stakeholder groups in both houses, some of which may be re-configurations
> or alignments of existing groups.
>
> Since this is an unknown factor, the effects on the democratic and
> participatory process of the Council and the response to that are yet to be
> seen. However, we would like to highlight that ICANN is already publishing
> information on how to participate (see
> http://gnso.icann.org/en/about/participation.htm) including information on
> how to form a Constituency. Thus, the information and processes are available
> to be inclusive
>
> In quantitative terms, challenges are more predictable in some aspects. For
> sure, there will be
>
> - more attention by the general pubic and Governments;
>
> - more attendants at meetings, which has an impact on sizing the venues;
>
> - more groups that need administrative and technical support;
>
> - more telephone conferences with more participants and more remote
> participation;
>
> - more documents to be produced and read;
>
> - more decisions to be made and operationalized;
>
> - more contractors that need to be managed;
>
> - the need for ever more stringent budget management and control; and
>
> - more compliance issues that need to be taken care of.
>
> These quantitative challenges require managerial responses that ICANN can
> prepare for. Such preparations should also encompass the increased burden on
> volunteers to deal with even more and potentially more complex material to
> work on. Processes and support schemes for volunteers should be designed to
> best possibly avoid volunteer fatigue.
>
> The unknown is what new groups will be established and what their place and
> role in the ICANN eco system shall be. However, additions will only lead to
> marginal changes that can be dealt with once they are known.
>
> In summary, the GNSO Council believes that the current structure is resilient
> to respond to the challenges to come as long as ICANN provides the resources
> required to accommodate an increasing number of participants / stakeholders
> and their respective needs.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Stéphane van Gelder
>
> Chair, GNSO Council
>
>
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