RE: [council] Fwd: Tweets from "GNSO"

["Jonathan Robinson" <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 

A question and some input as follows:

 

Question: 

 

Which specific tweet caused concern?  

 

Input:

 

The genesis of this goes back to the early part of my term as chair.  

It formed part of a plan to turn around both the effectiveness and the
perceptions of the GNSO Council (and possibly the GNSO) and our work.

With regard to the perceptions, the idea was (is) to communicate the work
and outcomes (of the work) of the GNSO such that anyone with an interest in
the GNSO (and its Council) could know about our work and any related
outcomes.

 

I trust that's helpful.

 

 

Jonathan

 

 

From: Marika Konings [mailto:marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 22 May 2014 15:31
To: Bret Fausett; GNSO Council List
Subject: Re: [council] Fwd: Tweets from "GNSO"

 

Dear Brett,

 

The GNSO twitter feed was established in close co-ordination with the
Council leadership and is managed by ICANN policy staff as a mechanism to
inform and reach out to the GNSO and broader community in relation to topics
/ issues that are deemed of interest to the GNSO. As you may have noticed,
we do take great care that the tweets are always factual, referring either
to recent decisions, reports, posts from the GNSO or ICANN. As Internet
Governance has featured highly on the agenda for the broader community as
well as the GNSO, tweets related to that topic have also been included (but
again, always referring to official posts / information and not expressing
any particular opinion). However, if that is considered to be problematic,
we are happy to refrain from including Internet Governance related tweets
from now on if that's what the Council would prefer. 

 

Best regards,

 

Marika

 

From: Bret Fausett <bret@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday 22 May 2014 16:18
To: GNSO Council List <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [council] Fwd: Tweets from "GNSO"

 

Dear Council Members,

 

One of our constituency members noted that the "GNSO" is tweeting about
Internet governance matters generally, on initiatives that are outside the
current activity list of the GNSO. The registries think this is
inappropriate and that the GNSO twitter feed should not be used for general
ICANN issues. What can we do to rein in the twitter posts being sent on our
behalf?

 

--
Bret Fausett, Esq. . General Counsel, Uniregistry, Inc. 
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 200 . Playa Vista, CA 90094-2536
310-496-5755 (T) . 310-985-1351 (M) . bret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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