[gnso-ccwg-dt] Update following the Dakar meeting
All, Many thanks to those who were able to participate in our (early AM local time!) Dakar meeting. Special thanks in particular to Edmon Chung, Alan Greenberg and Wendy Seltzer for offering their detailed and thoughtful assessments of cross-community WGs based on their extensive experiences as active participants and chairs of several recent Cross-SO and AC groups. The speakers highlighted areas of importance that should be considered carefully when developing principles applicable to such groups. Those who were not able to attend the session are strongly encouraged to review the transcript (http://dakar42.icann.org/meetings/dakar2011/transcript-ccwg-27oct11-en.pdf ). Key meeting points: 1. Presentations and Initial discussion: The initial discussion focused around key themes emphasized by the first speakers, including: the need for clearly defined scope; the importance of understanding the perspectives (and processes) of each SO and AC and the need to recognize unique aspects of each SO and AC; and the desire to strike an appropriate balance between simplicity and allowing the flexibility to accommodate varying processes of SOs and ACs while retaining enough structure and rules to ensure confidence and predictability in how these groups conduct their work. 2. Discussion of next steps: The group agreed with a suggestion made by Chuck Gomes to seek GNSO Council concurrence to reach out in short order to other SOs and ACs to work collaboratively on the principles and rules applicable to CWGs as a way to accelerate progress by this group. 3. The group began reviewing and editing the draft principles that have previously been circulated (see slides pp. 8-9 here: http://dakar42.icann.org/meetings/dakar2011/presentation-ccwg-27oct11-en.pdf ). Due to time limitations, the group did not complete this discussion - redline edits are included in the attached (reformatted as a Word document) so that you can follow the discussion - we only began to discuss the first "practice". This can be continued on our upcoming call - please look for the "doodle" which will be sent shortly to find a time for the group to meet next week. Please let me know if I've missed any edits that were discussed - these are a work in progress by the group. Best regards, Liz Attachment:
Draft Principles for CWGs Dakar edits.docx
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