[ispcp] Summary and actions from ISPCP conference call 13 July 2011

["Tony Holmes" <tonyarholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following represents a summary of the main discussion points and actions
from the ISPCP conference call held on 13 July 2011

 

.         New Constituencies

Attention was focused on ICANN's approval of the NPOC constituency which was
now part of the NCSG. It was noted that discussions were taking place within
the NCSG with regard to future elections of GNSO Councillors and that the
current rules would see that result decided by a single vote majority of all
NCSG members. That approach facilitates capture by a Constituency with the
highest number of members and has the potential to block access to Council
by representatives from smaller Constituencies, in this case the NPOC. The
opinion of the ISPCP is that no single Constituency should hold more than a
set level of seats.

Tony Holmes was requested to raise this issue with the CSG Executive.

Note: This action has been followed up and the CSG are now discussing
whether/how to pursue this.

.         ATRT Update

As a member of the ATRT Committee, Olivier Muron reported that he was not
aware of any recent developments with regard to the ATRT since the Singapore
meeting.

Attention was drawn to the discussions led by the ISPCP on ATRT progress
which had taken place during the CSG session with the ICANN Board in
Singapore. The ISPCP had raised concern over the perceived lack of action.
In particular the ISPCP was concerned over the lack of precise details
showing how the community would be able to interact as staff progressed
improvements on 'public comment periods' as this had the ability to impact
the work of the Constituency. 

As nothing appeared to have changed since the Singapore meeting, Tony Holmes
was requested to follow-up this issue with Denise Michelle.

Note: Since the ISPCP call ICANN staff has notified the community they are
setting in place a focus group to facilitate input. For the CSG
representatives on this group will be Marilyn Cade and Jonathan Zuck, with
feedback to the ISPCP agreed.

.         GNSO toolkit

The ISPCP concluded their key preferences from the GNSO toolkit list as;

.         Providing grants/Funding for Constituencies to provide their own
administrative support

.         Web site hosting and content maintenance

.         Assisting in conducting elections for Officers

Tony Holmes was requested to inform Rob Hoggarth. 

In addition its was requested that Rob Hoggarth is invited to attend the
ISPCP meeting in Senegal in order to discuss ISPCP web site requirements in
more detail.

Note: This action has since been completed.

.         Budget

Following the discussion between the CSG and the ICANN Board on budget
issues in Singapore the CSG decided to set in place a small team (2 per
Constituency) to consider the budget and operational plan in more detail.
This will form an on-going task within the CSG. For the ISPCP Tony Holmes
and Jaime Wagner will represent the Constituency. 

Note: The CSG have been informed and this work is expected to commence
shortly.

Whilst the GNSO Council are also due to discuss budget issues the ISPCP will
only support their consideration of issues that are specific to the policy
work of the Council.

.         GNSO outreach task force

Olga Carvelli will be leading the GNSO Outreach Task Force and has requested
volunteers from all Constituencies. Tony Harris has volunteered to cover
this for the ISPCP and Thomas Rickert will be the alternate. 

Note: The Chair of this group has since been advised.

.         JAS 

Council delegates advised that the report from the JAS wg has still to be
agreed by the GNSO despite its submission to the Board. Thomas Rickert
reported that he had reviewed the JAS proposals on behalf of the ISPCP (as
agreed in Singapore) and had sent a message to the ISPCP mailing list,
advising the Constituency should generally support the ideas set out within
the report, but additionally state the IPv6 requirements should not be
waived. The JAS report currently takes no position on this. ISPs will be
involved with back-end providers that would use IPv6 and this needs to be
encouraged to ensure operational stability. On financial stability, Thomas
proposed that needy applicants should only be required to demonstrate
financial stability for 6-12 months or the barrier to entry would be too
high, and that ICANN needed to offer support to needy applicants if they
faced bankruptcy in order to ensure operational  and technical stability. In
addition ICANN could also assist with the provision of legal advice, but any
such action should be undertaken by 3rd parties.

.         GNSO Council meetings

The next GNSO Council meeting is planned for July 25. At the date of this
call no meeting was planned for August.

.         Elections

Election are required to be held for the ISPCP Council seats prior to
Senegal

In addition the ISPCP needs to appoint a new delegate to the 2011-2012
Nominating Committee and reappoint CSG Executive officers.

Following Senegal an election will take place for the Constituency Chair

Secretary to arrange.

.         IANA contract

Alain Bidron introduce a draft response to be submitted by the ISPCP on the
recent announcement regarding the IANA contract. Comments should be
submitted to the list (copied direct to Alain) by 20th July to enable
submission by the 29th July deadline.

.         Date of next Constituency call was agreed as Wednesday 17 August
at 14.00 UTC