[WP1] question about RySG comment on CCWG first draft

[Drazek, Keith]

Thanks Steve. My recollection is that the RySG expects the AoC CCT-RT to play an important role in reviewing the current New gTLD round. We also believe that future work by the GNSO to develop and/or refine policies governing future gTLD rounds will likely be necessary. We do not view the AoC reviews as unilateral or specific to ICANN as an organization, but a review is a review, and policy development is policy development. The AOC CCT-RT may inform future policy development, but they are not a replacement for the work of the GNSO. Does that help?

Regards,
Keith



On Jul 1, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco at netchoice.org<mailto:sdelbianco at netchoice.org>> wrote:

Keith — as president of the RySG, you’re in a good position to answer a question about RYSG comments on CCWG’s first draft.   This regards section 6.2 —  bringing Affirmation of Commitments reviews into the ICANN bylaws.

The RySG had a concern with respect to the following text from the AoC review of the 2012 gTLD expansion:
 ICANN will ensure that as it expands the top-level domain space, will adequately address issues of competition, consumer protection, security, stability and resiliency, malicious abuse issues, sovereignty concerns, and rights protection.

RySG agrees that the above issues are important topics, but wish to underscore that these topics must be addressed through the multi-stakeholder model and not unilaterally by ICANN as an organization.  "We urge that this be clarified in the final proposal."

So RySG wants to require a bottom-up multistakeholder process to turn new gTLD review team recommendations into the next round gTLD guidebook.

As a point of clarification, does RySG believe that a community-driven AoC review is sufficiently bottom-up, or should we require a different process —  such as a PDP in the GNSO?

Do you generally view the AoC Reviews as “unilateral by ICANN as an organization"


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