[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] RE: Joint Applicant Support (JAS) Final Report / ALAC Ratification

[Karla Valente <karla.valente@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Carlton and Rafik:

Now that the report has been considered by the GNSO and ALAC and submitted to 
the board, I am preparing the announcement and public comment description for 
us to post the Final Report for public comment. I will send it to you tomorrow. 
Assuming there are not much issues with the content I draft, we can post it 
this week.

Thank you,

Karla Valente
Director, gTLD Registry Programs
Mobile:  +1 310 936 4639

From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond [mailto:ocl@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 3:02 PM
To: Steve Crocker
Cc: Secretary; Stéphane Van Gelder; sebastien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; ICANN At-Large 
Staff; Liz Gasster; Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond; Karla Valente; Kurt Pritz
Subject: Joint Applicant Support (JAS) Final Report / ALAC Ratification

Dear Steve,


I am pleased to inform you that the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) has 
ratified the following ALAC Resolution:

-- start of resolution --

WHEREAS the ALAC has long supported the requirement of reducing barriers to Top 
Level Domain (TLD) creation in developing economies; and

WHEREAS the ALAC has co-chartered the Joint Applicant Support Working Group 
(JAS WG) and welcomed the participation of many At-Large members in its 
activities; and

WHEREAS the ALAC has reviewed and endorsed earlier milestone reports of this 
Working Group; and

WHEREAS the JAS WG has produced a Final Report for consideration by the ICANN 
community that has been reviewed by At-Large;

RESOLVED THAT the ALAC endorses the Final Report of the JAS Working Group and 
urges the ICANN Board to implement its recommendations; and

RESOLVED THAT the ALAC thanks the community volunteers and ICANN staff whose 
work contributed - and continues to contribute - to the advancement of the JAS 
WG mandate.
--- end of resolution --

With 14 out of 15 ALAC members voting, the ALAC vote result was 14 in favour, 0 
against and 0 objections.

The resolution is therefore carried unanimously by the ALAC.

You may review the process by which the ALAC vote took place on page:
https://community.icann.org/x/9gKpAQ

Please be so kind to find a copy of the JAS Applicant Support Working Group 
Final Report enclosed for your immediate transmittal to the ICANN Board. I 
trust that this will become a key item on the Board Agenda.

Please find also enclosed, appended below my email, the correspondence I have 
received from Stéphane Van Gelder, GNSO Council Chair, indicating that the GNSO 
Council has approved a motion to forward the final Report of the JAS WG to the 
ICANN Board for review. Details of the motion found below.

Finally, let me remind you that volunteers and staff have worked very hard 
throughout the summer in order to have this report ready for the ICANN Board to 
have enough time to initiate the process by which its recommendations will be 
adopted by the Board during the ICANN DAKAR meeting. The Community has 
responded to the Board's call for action in Nairobi and in Cartagena. The Board 
must now respond equally as quickly to the Community's resolve that launching a 
new gTLD programme without Applicant Support would be politically incorrect for 
ICANN.

Best regards,

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
ALAC Chair


-------- Original message --------
Sujet:

JAS Final Report

Date :

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:41:48 +0200

De :

Stéphane Van Gelder 
<stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx><mailto:stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>

Pour :

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@xxxxxxx><mailto:ocl@xxxxxxx>

Copie à :

Council GNSO <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx><mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Olivier,

In my capacity as GNSO Council Chair, it is my pleasure to inform you, in your 
capacity as ALAC Chair, that the Council voted to approve the motion shown 
below during its meeting today.

Best,

Stéphane Van Gelder
GNSO Council Chair


Whereas:

The GNSO Council and ALAC established the Joint SO/AC Working Group (JASWG) on 
support for new gTLD applicants in April of 2010; and

The Joint SO/AC Working Group released its second Milestone Report, posted for 
consideration by the Board, Chartering Organizations and at-large Community. 
This report documented the completion of work as defined in the extended 
charter and,

The Joint SO/AC Working Group received and discussed the public comments, and

The Joint SO/AC Working Group has completed the enumerated items as defined in 
its extended charter and has published a final report 
(https://community.icann.org/display/jaswg/JAS+Issues+and+Recommendations#<https://community.icann.org/display/jaswg/JAS+Issues+and+Recommendations>)
 on 14 September 2011 covering those chartered items 
(http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#20110113-1) entitled Final Report of the 
Joint SO/AC new GTLD applicant support working group. and

The Joint SO/AC Working Group is still in the process of completing some last 
tasks including completion of the formal documentation of the comment responses 
for the second milestone community review, and

The GNSO council has not had a chance to review the Final Report nor digest any 
of its contents,

However, the GNSO Council does not wish to delay implementation of support 
programs for applicants from developing regions,

Resolved:

The GNSO Council thanks the members of the Joint SO/AC Working Group for its 
efforts and its dedication to completing these work items on such a tight 
schedule, and

The GNSO Council approves forwarding the final Report to the ICANN Board for 
review and approval, but reserves its right to provide comments to the ICANN 
Board on all of the recommendations contained therein; and

The GNSO Council request ICANN staff begin working on  develop an 
implementation plan following the JAS WG of therecommendations, subject to 
comments received from the GNSO community , and

The GNSO Council requests that ICANN staff publish the implementation plan for 
public comment prior to consideration by the ICANN Board, and

The GNSO Council requests that the Joint SO/AC Working Group complete the 
publication of its formal Milestone 2 response document as quickly as possible, 
and

The GNSO Council requests that the Joint SO/AC Working Group remain on call to 
review the outcome of the ICANN implementation of the JAS recommendations.

Resolved further, that the GNSO Council instructs the GNSO Chair to communicate 
its decision to the ALAC Chair.