[council] Public Forum Statement

[Jonathan Robinson]

All,

I am on holiday this week. 

Will pick up next week along with all other actions arising from Beijing.

Thanks,

Jonathan

"Winterfeldt, Brian" <bwinterfeldt at steptoe.com> wrote:

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>Dear Jonathan:
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>We suggest softening the public forum statement in the following manner, in advance of framing it in a letter to the Board of Directors.
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>The GNSO Council would like to remind the ICANN staff and Board that it is the 
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>only entity charged with policy development and providing recommendations to 
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>the Board on substantive policies relating to generic top level domains. The 
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>GNSO Council recently provided advice in response to a letter from the CEO to 
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>the effect that an issue being considered was a matter of policy, rather than 
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>implementation. It was Staff's view that the issue was implementation and not 
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>policy, and accordingly it was the Staff's decision to proceed with 
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>implementation of what the majority of the Council believed was policy. It is 
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>the Council's firmly held view that when there is not an agreement on whether 
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>or not such an item is policy, as in this case, that the Staff and/or the ICANN 
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>Board must refer back to the Council before proceeding further.
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>Indeed, as a general point, it is the Council's view that should it provide 
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>policy advice to the Staff and/or the Board in the future, then in the event 
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>that Staff and/or Board seek to act in a manner that is not consistent with the 
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>Council's advice, then the Staff and/or Board must consult with the GNSO 
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>Council, explain the rationale behind its decision, and allow the Council, at a 
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>minimum, to respond to the Staff or Board's decision.
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>Thank you,
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>Brian
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>Brian J. Winterfeldt  
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>Partner 
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>bwinterfeldt at steptoe.com
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>Steptoe
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>From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of Yoav Keren[SMTP:YOAV at DTNT.COM] 
>Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 12:34:46 PM 
>To: Jonathan Robinson 
>Cc: Volker Greimann - Key-Systems GmbH; GNSO Council List 
>Subject: Re: [council] Public Forum Statement 
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>That is a good move forward Jonathan.
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>Thank you for getting our message out there.
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>Yoav
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>Yoav Keren
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>ב-11 באפר 2013, בשעה 14:02, "Jonathan Robinson" <jrobinson at afilias.info> כתב/ה:
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>That was the plan. Statement plus letter.
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>It's good that we are invited to send not simply sending in a vacuum.
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>Jonathan
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>Volker Greimann - Key-Systems GmbHz <vgreimann at key-systems.net> wrote:
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>So we end up with a letter after all...
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>Volker
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>Sent from my iPad
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>On 11.04.2013, at 18:27, Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson at afilias.info> wrote:
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>All,
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>I made the statement and Chris Dispain, chair of the session asked for it to be sent to the board.
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>Jonathan
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