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[council] For Discussion: GNSO Letter to Akram Atallah re: ICANN Harassment Policy

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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.


________________________________

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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Attachment: GNSO Letter to Akram Atallah.docx
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