[council] For Discussion: GNSO Letter to Akram Atallah re: ICANN Harassment Policy
Council Colleagues -
Attached and copied below, please find a draft letter from the Council to Akram
Atallah, in response to his recent blog post ("Conduct at ICANN Meetings"
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/conduct-at-ICANN-meetings).
In this note, I set out to make some high-level points that support further
work in this area, without weighing in on any specific indecent. Also, the
letter references a statement from the NCUC ExCom ("Statement from NCUC
Executive Committee"
http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2016-March/018488.html) and the
ICANN Harassment Policy drafted by our volunteers (attached), and urges any
future effort to consider these materials.
If possible, please review these documents prior to our next call on 14 APR.
We can collect edits and then decide if/how we want to proceed.
Thank you,
J.
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Akram Atallah
COO and interim CEO, ICANN
Dear Akram -
On behalf of the GNSO Council, we would like to thank your for your recent blog
post ("Conduct at ICANN Meetings")[1]. Members of the Council, and all of the
GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies, share the goal of ensuring that all
members of the community can participate in and contribute to ICANN, in an
environment where harassment and discrimination are not tolerated.
Without passing judgment on any specific incident, we are encouraged by the
commitment from Staff and the Board to engage the community on this subject.
In support of this, volunteers on the Council have prepared a draft ("ICANN
Conference Harassment Policy", attached). Several questions remain open,
however, including:
· Whether this Policy would enhance, or be distinct from, the existing
Expected Standards of Behavior policy
· Whether complaints would be reported to ICANN Staff, or the Office of
the Ombudsman, or some other entity or group
· How the policy will be enforced, and
· Other topics and questions that will arise from this work.
We expect that members of the GNSO community will be engaged in this effort,
and note that some have already undertaken work in their own groups ("Statement
from NUCU Executive Committee"[2]). We urge this group to consider these
materials in any community undertaking to develop new policy addressing this
issue.
Thank you
Donna Austin, GNSO Vice-Chair
James Bladel, GNSO Chair
Heather Forrest, GNSO Vice-Chair
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[1] https://www.icann.org/news/blog/conduct-at-icann-meetings
[2] http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2016-March/018488.html
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