Re: [board-09georegionswg] Final Steps To Board Submission of Final Report - Update and Request For Assistance

[Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rob

I will chat to Olivier

CLO from my Mobile phone
On 14/11/2013 5:10 PM, "Robert Hoggarth" <robert.hoggarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Dear Working Group Members,
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> 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.
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> 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 –
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> “The Chairs of the SOs and ACs *shall notify the Chair of the GEO WG in
> writing* of the result of their deliberations.”
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> (I *bolded* the specific text of the charter subsection for emphasis).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Looking forward to seeing many of you soon in Buenos Aires.
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> Best,
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> Rob
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