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

Wed Mar 8 18:30:30 UTC 2006

Policy for Contractual Conditions:  Existing TLDs.

PCC:  eTLD
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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 19:28, Ross Rader wrote:

> 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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