Re: [gtld-council] Regarding outreach to other groups within ICANN

["Sophia B" <sophiabekele@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,  I am not sure I understand your statment below, could you please
clarify? who are the GNSo constituancies and who are not?   where does the
general public fit here and/or specific individuals, say who are subject
matter experts...tx.

Just to be clear - we are not "required" to seek advice/input from
> > specific bodies other than the GNSO constituencies.


On 19/06/06, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Marilyn,
>
> >
> > We are required to. Seek input from relevant SOs and advisory
> > groups, and we sld discuss this process in some detail in Marrakech.
>
> Just to be clear - we are not "required" to seek advice/input from
> specific bodies other than the GNSO constituencies.
>
> The ICANN Board is required to seek input from the GAC on public policy
> issues, and "may" request input from advisory groups such as SSAC and
> ALAC.
>
> We are required to take public comments - which can be from individuals,
> businesses, and groups such as GAC, ALAC, individual Governments etc.
> We also have liaisons with GAC and ALAC which may facilitate obtaining
> public input.
>
> However I agree that it would be worthwhile to specifically target
> outreach to groups such as GAC, ccNSO, and SSAC as part of our public
> comment processes.   We should however highlight areas of our work that
> would be of most interest to such groups.  For example, SSAC could
> advise on minimum technical standards, and ccNSO may wish to comment on
> reserved word strings such as cctlds (e.g a new gTLD may not use a
> string from the set of two letter country codes etc).
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin