[gnso-policyimpl-wg] Re: [gnso-policyimpl-wg] ICANN News Alert -- Proposed ICANN Bylaws Amendments‹GNSO Policy & Implementation Recommendations

[Amr Elsadr <aelsadr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Apologies for the late response to this thread, but I’ve been very busy these 
past weeks moving back to Cairo from Tromsø.

I have a slight concern that is associated with a question I had on another 
thread regarding how the recommended principles in the final report would be 
addressed.

I probably need to go through this all a great deal more thoroughly, and will 
do so before drafting a statement for the public comment period, but this is my 
take right now:

It was my feeling that the intent of the WG final recommendations was to 
empower the chartering organization (GNSO council) to be involved in the 
guidance of implementation of policies. This was very carefully worded in 
principle B4

> Whilst implementation processes as such need not always function in a purely 
> bottom-up manner, in all cases the relevant policy development body (e.g., 
> the chartering organization) must have the opportunity to be involved during 
> implementation, to provide guidance on the implementation of the policies as 
> recommended by the GNSO.


This principle has not, as far as I can tell, been adequately addressed in the 
proposed amendments to the bylaws. In fact, it seems to me that excluding it — 
while including other details in the new processes where the board directs 
ICANN staff to work with the GNSO on implementation plans “if deemed necessary” 
based on the recommendations in the EPDP or GGP final report — makes the 
decision of an IRT being chartered to work with staff implementing policies one 
of the ICANN board, not the GNSO council.

Am I reading too much into this?

Thanks.

Amr

> On Aug 3, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Gomes, Chuck <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much Marika.
>  
> Chuck
>  
> From: Marika Konings [mailto:marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 3:21 AM
> To: Gomes, Chuck; gnso-policyimpl-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: ICANN News Alert -- Proposed ICANN Bylaws Amendments‹GNSO Policy 
> & Implementation Recommendations
>  
> That is correct – the only things that were updated were references to other 
> sections in the ICANN Bylaws; the voting thresholds were added to Section 
> X.3-9 as they were defined in other parts of the report; in footnote 1 
> ‘supermajority vote of the GNSO Council’ was changed to ‘a GNSO supermajority 
> vote’, and; duplicative definitions that were originally in section 9 
> ‘additional definitions’ were removed. 
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> Marika
>  
> From: Chuck Gomes <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday 2 August 2015 23:31
> To: Marika Konings <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx>, "gnso-policyimpl-wg@xxxxxxxxx" 
> <gnso-policyimpl-wg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: ICANN News Alert -- Proposed ICANN Bylaws Amendments—GNSO Policy 
> & Implementation Recommendations
>  
> Thanks Marika.  Glad to see this moving forward.  I did a quick review of the 
> Bylaws changes and didn’t note any significant changes to what we proposed.  
> Am I correct on that?
>  
> Chuck
>  
> From: owner-gnso-policyimpl-wg@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-gnso-policyimpl-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marika Konings
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 4:01 AM
> To: gnso-policyimpl-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gnso-policyimpl-wg] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Proposed ICANN Bylaws 
> Amendments—GNSO Policy & Implementation Recommendations
>  
> 
> For your information.
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> Marika
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "ICANN News Alert" <communications@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1 augustus 2015 05:24:16 CEST
> To: <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: ICANN News Alert -- Proposed ICANN Bylaws Amendments—GNSO Policy & 
> Implementation Recommendations
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> 
> 
> News Alert
> 
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2015-07-31-en
> 
> Proposed ICANN Bylaws Amendments—GNSO Policy & Implementation Recommendations
> 31 July 2015
> 
> Forum Announcement:
> Comment Period Opens on
> Date:
> 31 July 2015
> Categories/Tags:
> Policy Processes
> Purpose (Brief):
> During its meeting on 24 June 2015, the GNSO Council unanimously adopted the 
> recommendations of the GNSO Policy & Implementation Working Group 
> (see:http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/policy-implementation-recommendations-01jun15-en.pdf),
>  which was tasked to address a number of questions as they relate to GNSO 
> policy and implementation. Among others, these recommendations include three 
> proposed new GNSO processes, two of which—the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP) and 
> the GNSO Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP)—require changes to the 
> ICANN Bylaws1 subject to ICANN Board approval. Per its resolution of 28 July 
> 2015 (see: 
> https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2015-07-28-en#1.c),
>  the ICANN Board has directed that these proposed changes to the ICANN Bylaws 
> be posted for public comment prior to ICANN Board consideration.
> Public Comment Box Link:
> https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bylaws-amendments-2015-07-31-en
> 1These proposed changes to the ICANN Bylaws are accompanied by a GGP and EPDP 
> Manual, which can be found in Annex D and F of the GNSO Policy & 
> Implementation Final Report (see: 
> http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/policy-implementation-recommendations-01jun15-en.pdf)
>  and would be incorporated into the GNSO Operating Procedures following 
> adoption of the proposed ICANN Bylaws changes by the ICANN Board.
> 
>  
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