Re: [ga] IDN issues (was: On Elections)

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Re:  "GA Members are not accepted in ICANN IDN
committees:  these are reserved to Constituency
members."

Sorry, not exactly true.  Former GNSO Council Chair
Bruce Tonkin finally allowed for the possibility of
observers. He wrote:

"There have been some suggested refinements on the
Council mailing list to deal with potential problems. 
At the next Council meeting I will ask the Council to
formally endorse a policy on observers in working
groups.  As the working groups are on a tight
time-line, I don't want to hold up the spirit of the
support I have received from many of the GNSO Council
members for allowing more participation in working
groups.

So I encourage working groups to move forward on the
following basis with respect to allowing "observers",
who are not GNSO constituency members.

"Observers: Observers shall not be members of or
entitled to vote on the working group, but otherwise
shall be entitled to participate on equal footing with
members of the working group.   In particular
observers
will be able to join the mailing list, and attend
teleconferences or physical meetings."

To guard against some of the behaviour that can occur
with unregulated mailing lists, observers must provide
their real name, organisation (if associated with an
organisation) and contact details to the GNSO
secretariat, and the GNSO secretariat will verify at
least their email address and phone contact
information.   Observers will also be requested to
provide a public statement of interest, as for working
group members.

Where a person joins an already established working
group, this will be on the basis that it is their
responsibility to read the existing documents, listen
to teleconference recordings, and read the mailing
list discussions before commenting on topics that have
already been dealt with by the working group."

Further, the ALAC IDN WG is open to all.  To
subscribe, go to this URL: 
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/idn-wg_atlarge-lists.icann.org

You may also wish to comment on the ALAC response to
the GAC-CCNSO Issues Paper -- see 
https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?alac_idn_working_group,


       
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