[council] GNSO: PDP management issues [note changed thread]

[Ross Rader]

Liz - Can you decode? What is PCC and PCC-eTLD?

Liz Williams wrote:
> Marilyn
> 
> Thanks for your note.
> 
> It is not my understanding that we are to devote any resources and time 
> at all to the Feb 06 PCC:  Existing TLDs PDP as part of the two day 
> working session in Wellington.  I have another email to the Council in 
> preparation about the PCC-eTLD PDP which I was going to distribute 
> tomorrow but I will send that out later tonight.
> 
>  From my side, it is entirely premature to be discussing the PCC-eTLD in 
> Wellington.   Advice from the GNSO Secretariat today indicates that the 
> public comment period will be between 7 March - 27 March.  On current 
> estimations, 10 April is the deadline for constituency statements.   I 
> would encourage the Council to focus entirely on the new TLD PDP in the 
> working sessions at the Wellington meetings.  There is much good work to 
> be done there and, in the background, I would hope that the 
> constituencies would be preparing their statements which will then be 
> folded into the PCC-eTLD Initial Report.
> 
> Kind regards.
> 
> Liz
> .....................................................
> 
> Liz Williams
> Senior Policy Counselor
> ICANN - Brussels
> +32 2 234 7874 tel
> +32 2 234 7848 fax
> +32 497 07 4243 mob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 08 Mar 2006, at 18:15, Marilyn Cade wrote:
> 
>> Just one additional thought, since we have an "agreed" format with
>> numbering, etc, for ease of reference in discussion, would be 
>> important to
>> keep that also in mind as the further documents are developed.
>>
>> Thanks, Liz, for the information about when we can expect the further
>> Initial Report--e.g., end of this week. Important to have it as soon 
>> as you
>> can, given the work that we are all trying to review before flying to
>> Wellington. :-)
>>
>> Just one thought, though. The intent of the working session is to 
>> split the
>> time over the two PDPs, as well as the meeting with the GAC working 
>> group on
>> gNSO. That may have been inherent in your email but it sounded a bit like
>> there was thought that the entire agenda is given over to this particular
>> pdp, and I don't believe that can be the case.
>>
>> But of course, we are still developing the exact schedule of work for
>> Wellington. I would propose that we devote Saturday a.m. to this work, 
>> and
>> Saturday p.m. to the contractual terms PDP [sometimes called PDP Feb-06].
>> That will allow us to be prepared for our discussion Sunday a.m. with the
>> GAC working group, and then we can return to work on the contractual 
>> terms
>> PDP on Sunday p.m,
>>
>> Best regards and thanks for the update.
>>
>> Marilyn Cade
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org 
>> [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ross Rader
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:09 AM
>> To: Liz Williams
>> Cc: GNSO Council
>> Subject: Re: [council] GNSO PDP new TLDS: Call for further information
>>
>> In documents like this, it would be useful to augment citations with a
>> hyperlink to the referenced message or resource. It is difficult (or
>> impossible) for a layperson to read this document and benefit from the
>> larger context that these limited footnotes provide for.
>>
>> There are any number of online style guides that provide recommendations
>> for citing online sources ) - I heartily recommend that staff choose one
>> of these for future use - it will make these documents eminently more
>> readable, and therefore useful, for our purposes.
>>
>> i.e. http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/Turabian.htm
>>
>> [25] National Park Service,  Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National
>> Historic Site, 11 February 2003, available from
>> http://www.nps.gov/abli/; Internet; accessed 13 February 2003.
>>
>> Liz Williams wrote:
>>> Dear Colleagues
>>>
>>> I have attached for your review a document which sets out a request for
>>> additional information on the technical selection criteria for new TLDs.
>>>
>>> The document focuses on four key questions around technical criteria 
>>> which
>> we
>>> discussed at some length at the Washington meeting.
>>>
>>> Could I ask you and your constituencies to come to Wellington with more
>> detailed
>>> information about your positions (and the justification for those
>> positions
>>> based on ICANN's mission and values)?  We would then be able to move
>> forward
>>> with discussions about the appropriateness of other selection 
>>> criteria and
>>
>>> allocation methods.
>>>
>>> I will be delivering to you all, I hope by the end of this week, an
>> updated
>>> version of the new TLD /Initial Report/ in which I have included
>> Washington
>>> inputs and other information.
>>>
>>> I would expect to be working on that /Initial Report/ during the two day
>> session
>>> planned for 25 & 26 March.
>>>
>>> Kind regards and, of course, any questions come straight back to me.  If
>>> necessary, we could add quick discussion of this document to the agenda
>> for next
>>> week's Council call.
>>>
>>> Liz
>>> .....................................................
>>>
>>> Liz Williams
>>> Senior Policy Counselor
>>> ICANN - Brussels
>>> +32 2 234 7874 tel
>>> +32 2 234 7848 fax
>>> +32 497 07 4243 mob
>>>
>>> =
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> =
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