[council] Follow up on the IGO discussion on the Council call

[Mary Wong <mary.wong@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

In the interests of concluding the Council call on time, staff had a few 
specific staff comments that we are sending around by email. We hope they are 
helpful.


1.       The process question

Insofar as there is concern amongst the GNSO community that there may now be 
several recent examples where the GNSO PDP seems to have been “compromised” 
(for lack of a better word) for one reason or another, what may be helpful to 
the Board, GAC and other community groups is for the GNSO to raise this concern 
by providing those examples. This can have the benefit of allowing each 
specific issue (whether that be IGO acronyms protection, privacy/proxy service 
accreditation implementation, etc.) to be considered on its substantive merits, 
and progress achieved on resolution on each front, while a more focused, if 
parallel, discussion is launched (especially with the Board) on the more 
general topic of overall process (e.g. how the Board treats GAC advice and GNSO 
recommendations, whether the Bylaws are sufficiently clear, what went wrong in 
the past and what can be improved, etc.).


2.       The statement in the IGO small group proposal about GDD implementation

Our understanding from discussions with GDD colleagues is that the point raised 
by Phil on GDD’s role vis-à-vis the small group proposal is that this part of 
the Next Steps section of the proposal was intended to allow GDD to 
pro-actively think through potential implementation challenges with all of the 
substantive recommendations in the proposal. This will allow for operational 
issues (if any, e.g. with implementing a “permanent claims” service) to be 
raised and understood more fully while discussions are ongoing, and not “after 
the fact”. In other words, our understanding is that the intention is for 
preparatory planning and discussions on how to implement likely recommendations 
to take place before formal adoption of any final recommendations by the Board. 
This can, of course, be clarified in the proposed Council response to the 
Board’s letter.

Thanks and cheers
Mary


Mary Wong
Senior Policy Director
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Email: mary.wong@xxxxxxxxx
Telephone: +1-603-5744889