[board-09georegionswg] Final Steps To Board Submission of Final Report - Update and Request For Assistance
Dear Working Group Members, You may recall that the ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees were given until 17 October 2013 to respond to the 3 July 2013 asking for comments on the Final Report of the Working Group. Dave and I have confirmed that he received no written responses from any SO or AC who contributed representatives to the working group. While this may be viewed as a positive development in that no group has objected to the recommendations, it is problematic because we have determined that Section 4 - Subsection E of the Working Group charter requires a clear written statement from the SO-AC Chairs of the communities who supplied representatives to the Working Group BEFORE the final recommendations can be submitted to the Board ³The Chairs of the SOs and ACs shall notify the Chair of the GEO WG in writing of the result of their deliberations.² (I bolded the specific text of the charter subsection for emphasis). To help each of you encourage your communities to provide a written reaction to the Final Report recommendations, we have developed a draft form template that each of your community chairs can simply execute according to your own community procedures. The attached template form allows each SO or AC to pick the level of their reaction to the WG recommendation (1) supports, (2) generally opposes, (3) opposes (with specific reasons), (4) does not oppose, or (5) has no formal opinion. I will be sending notes to the chairs of the ALAC (Olivier), ASO/NRO (Paul and Louie), ccNSO (Byron) and GNSO (Jonathan) shortly asking for them to use the form (or any other format) to respond to Dave. The note requests a response by the end of the year presumably a reasonable period given the length of time each community has already had with the Final Report. Please do what you can to help your chairs provide the written response to Dave so that the Final Report can be submitted to the Board early next year. Looking forward to seeing many of you soon in Buenos Aires. Best, Rob Attachment:
DRAFT FINAL REPORT REACTION FORM TEMPLATE (NOV2013).docx Attachment:
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