Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Regarding the Nairobi Board Resolution
hi all, coincidentally, the leadership group had a call scheduled today and we took the opportunity to talk about this topic. mostly, these points will be repeats of things we've mentioned before, and i've attached the little slide deck that we used to talk about our short-term schedule just as a reminder. we're pretty much bang on that schedule, by the way. here are some points. -- Version 4 of the guidebook will include language that that implements the Board resolution regarding VI. that language is being written now and we'll all get to see it at the same time. -- that language will be the rules of the road for the next gTLD round unless we (quickly) arrive at a different consensus policy and launch it along the roughly four-month-long journey towards Board approval. the Board has left the door open for us to do that, but has provided a baseline that will prevail if we don't reach an agreement. -- we've confirmed that the schedule that's laid out in this little attachment will dovetail with the Applicant Guidebook development process, as best as anybody can foresee (with the caution that trying to predict dates and deliverables in that process is very hard to do -- there are many "if's" along the way). -- effectively, that means the working group needs to be in agreement within the next few weeks in order to hit the rest of the milestones on the path to getting our work into the Guidebook. -- Roberto and i are both quite hopeful that the working group can find several points of consensus that we can launch along the path towards policy approval. but it may not. in which case your two co-chairs will have less work to do in Brussels, we'll skip Page 4 of the attached schedule and move on to the longer/deeper Phase II of our work. the punchline is this. focus on reaching agreement -- soon. we're doing great so far -- keep going. onward, mikey Attachment:
VI Schedule v2.pdf - - - - - - - - - phone 651-647-6109 fax 866-280-2356 web www.haven2.com handle OConnorStP (ID for public places like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.)
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