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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear Whois RT,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Following the meeting last Thursday, the process has been
moving away from the path we set out leading up to Thursday, and I think it is
important for us to get back on track:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We heard from Brian Cute last week that his Review Team took
their duty very seriously, and it is good that we are able to learn from their
experience. The first thing they did was to define their own scope of work
– and they found that there is nothing simple or easy about it, yet it
was seen as a necessary condition to ensure the independence and integrity of
the work of the Review Team – and as I see it, that applies to all review
teams. As I see it, the first requirement for all review teams is to be independent,
and in particular independent of the body whose actions we are reviewing:
ICANN. Therefore, the process of our review team cannot be driven by ICANN
staff and/or its President, no matter what good intentions or practicalities
are there. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>I therefore submit that our next step is
elections. If you want to run, please do! I run because I care
about the Affirmation of Commitments, I know the GNSO well, and my firm has
allocated time to allow me to handle the administrative and technical issues of
the chairmanship. And I know, as do you, that the substantive issues are ones
we must address together. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>I strongly urge that the Scope of Work be stopped
pending elections, so that its result will be viewed as completely neutral and
independent. I further urge that all scheduling by staff be ceased until we do
it ourselves. We are responsible for our own goals, agendas, work products and
timeframes. We are the first of Whois Review Teams to follow, and thus the
first charged with the important responsibility of translating the words of the
Affirmation of Commitments into a Scope of Work. (I should share that –
even with two signatories of the Affirmation of Commitments(!) – the
Accountability and Transparency Team found this a difficult process –
with good faith disagreements with ICANN defining its first months.) Therefore,
once we have established our own, independent leadership, I view the Scope of
Work as our first major task – and one in which we should ALL be actively
engaged as it is the foundation of all our work to follow. A possible way
forward would be: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Form
the whole of the Review Team into 3-4 subgroups to review (of 3-4 people each)
to review and draft Scope of Work. I have talked with many of us, and listened
closely during our first meetings, and hear different ideas about our scope of
work and our mission here. As a better way to know each other, and to ensure
that all of our ideas become part of a first draft, a first step could very
well be a discussion and comparison of the ideas about the scope of work from
those different subgroups. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Meet
with drafters and signatories of the Affirmation of Commitments, including
Fiona Alexander of the US Department of Commerce and others, as an important
step in the process to translate the words of the AoC into a scope of work for
the Whois RT.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>In additional step, let’s survey who of us is
going to Cartagena. If we find that many people of us do not currently have
plans to be there (and please note that flights are now full and hotels
booked), let’s consider planning our first formal face-to-face meeting in
early January (with perhaps a very informal meeting in Cartagena for those who
happen to be attending). If many of us will be in Cartagena, then we should use
that opportunity, of course. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Furthermore: even if it turns out that most of us will
be in Cartagena, it seems to me that it is too early to meet with stakeholder
groups in Cartagena (as recently suggested) as we are simply not far enough in
our own development process. By the San Francisco ICANN meeting in March, we
should be ready to meet – hopefully, with a well-grounded set of
questions and ideas for public review and comment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Establish a way to collect, review and work with the excellent
ideas being shared by our members.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Again, I strongly urge that development of the Scope of Work
be stopped pending elections, so that it can be developed under a leadership
viewed as completely neutral and independent. I further urge that all
scheduling by staff be ceased until we do it ourselves. With thanks to ICANN
Staff, it is we on the RT who are responsible for our own goals, agendas, work
products and timeframes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Respectfully submitted,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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