RE: [council] For your review - draft motion and approach CCWG-Accountability

["Edward Morris" <egmorris1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,
  
 Thank you very much for the history lesson. I actually find it fascinating 
- so much of our institutional memory is in the heads of the experienced 
yet often is not being passed down to relative newcomers like myself. The 
sample responses are quite helpful - I'd prefer to keep any we or our 
individual Councillors submit similarly brief.
  
 Thanks again,
  
 Edward Morris
  
  
  

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 From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 9:57 AM
To: "council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [council] For your review - draft motion and approach 
CCWG-Accountability   

Hello Edward,

 
>> I've been in communication with our Member, a few members of the NCSG PC 
and one other NCSG Councillor and it appears that the preference in the 
NCSG, at least amongst some,  is that we hold separate votes on each of the 
twelve recommendations. I thought about holding off on letting everyone 
know but figured it might help for planning purposes if staff and our 
leadership knew of our intent.
 
>> As the wording of the Proposed Approach indicated that voting on each 
recommendation individually would be possible if requested by any Council 
member please note that is my intent to make such a request and I do not 
expect that intention will change between today and our open Council 
meeting in Marrakech.

There is a little bit of history of a similar approach:

In September 2007, the GNSO passed a resolution to send the new gTLD policy 
recommendations to the Board:

http://www.gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#200709

The new gTLD report contains 20 policy recommendations:

http://www.gnso.icann.org/en/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm


The NCUC submitted a minority statement on

Recommendation 6:

"Strings must not be contrary to generally accepted legal norms relating to 
morality and public order that are recognized under international 
principles of law.

Examples of such principles of law include, but are not limited to, the 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on 
Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention on the Elimination of 
All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the International 
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 
intellectual property treaties administered by the World Intellectual 
Property Organisation (WIPO) and the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects 
of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). "

See; 
http://www.gnso.icann.org/en/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm
#_Toc48210873

And on

Recommendation 20:

" An application will be rejected if an expert panel determines that there 
is substantial opposition to it from a significant portion of the community 
to which the string may be explicitly or implicitly targeted. "

See: 
http://www.gnso.icann.org/en/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm
#_Toc48210877

Avri Doria as a nominating committee appointee to the GNSO council also 
submitted a minority report at:

http://www.gnso.icann.org/en/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm
#_Toc48210874\

All other recommendations received unanimous support.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin

Former chair of the GNSO Council