[council] ATRT2 summary

[Mike O'Connor]

i'm happy to join/help the drafting gang.

mikey

On Dec 4, 2013, at 8:26 AM, "Jonathan Robinson" <jrobinson at afilias.info> wrote:

> Thanks Avri & John,
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> Maria, are you in a position to lead a draft of this asap?
> If not, or in any event, are there any other volunteers?
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> Maria’s preparation work and the recordings / transcripts from our meetings in BA will provide the material.
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> But … it needs to be synthesised into a concise and effective input (or short & sweet as John put it) with council support.
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> Any takers?  One week is a tight deadline!
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> Jonathan
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> From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at acm.org] 
> Sent: 02 December 2013 23:33
> To: council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: RE: [council] ATRT2 summary
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> Hi,
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> Speaking as a member of the ATRT from the GNSO, it would be good to have a response from the GNSO's council letting us know what the council agrees with and what you don't. And any uncovered concerns the council may have.
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> I encourage us to submit.
> Avri Doria
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> Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson at afilias.info> wrote:
> Apologies,
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> The input we had was from Maria (not Marika as below) but the question remains:
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> Do we provide written input to the ATRT2?
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> If so; (a) it needs to be done by 13 Dec and (b) is Maria in a position to hold the pen?
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> Thanks,
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> Jonathan
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> From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jonathan.robinson at ipracon.com] 
> Sent: 02 December 2013 17:47
> To: council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: RE: [council] ATRT2 summary
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> All,
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> We used this useful input from Marika to provide input to the ATRT2 in Buenos Aires. 
> I recall that we provided some well thought out and apparently helpful input in relation to the PDP and our role in managing policy development within the GNSO.
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> In addition we touched on it during the wrap-up session on Thursday.
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> We have to decide and act quickly on whether or not to provide written input by close of the reply period on 13 December 2013.
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> Thereafter they aim to produce the final report by 31 December 2013.
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> Any comments or input on this welcome.
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> Jonathan
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> From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jrobinson at afilias.info] 
> Sent: 20 November 2013 12:21
> To: 'Maria Farrell'; council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: RE: [council] ATRT2 summary
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> 
> Many thanks Maria,
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> All, please note that we are meeting with the ATRT2 in our second meeting GNSO Council meeting today. 
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> First we seat the new council, second we elect the chair.
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> Then we meet with the ATRT.  Exiting councillors WELCOME to participate.  It’s an open / public meeting.
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> Jonathan
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> From: Maria Farrell [mailto:maria.farrell at gmail.com] ! 
> Sent: 20 November 2013 09:09
> To: council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: [council] ATRT2 summary
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> 
> Dear fellow councilors,
> 
> With apologies for the time it's taken me to send this last part, here is a summary of the ATRT2 report on the GNSO PDP. (I'm afraid I ran out of time to summarise the rest of the report.)
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> I hope this is useful.
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> Full text of the report is here: http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/atrt/draft-recommendations-15oct13-en.pdf
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> And the GNSO PDP part starts on page 59 of the report.
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> All the best, Maria
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> ATRT2 Report – section on GNSO PDP
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> The problem:
> GNSO PDP is weak when it comes to resolving strong views and financial interests.
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> Background research
> Staff paper on improving the PDP is in the works
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> Community input
> Chairs and WG veterans stress need for F2F meetings, professional facilitators, Board involvement and for people were both for and against the Board issuing threats and deadlines.
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> Interconnect Report Findings
> PDPs mostly done by North Americans and Europeans
> Most active participants are paid to be there
> Many participants dissatisfied with process, time it takes and feel it’s not worth while – one time only WG participation is typical
> Culturally, PDP and WG process very Western culturally and English language based
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> ATRT2 Findings
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> Growing sense that professional facilitators are needed to help resolve difficult issues, although it may not suffice
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> Current model is based on email and conference calls, but F2F is more effective
> ! Board deadlines sometimes used to overcome intractable differences, but it’s not clear how to ensure people negotiate within PDP in good faith.  
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> Board is part of the problem: Board deadlined PDPs don’t always create good policy.  Or Board says it wants a policy and decides its own response in the meantime, or Board nullifies outcomes of a PDP.  This creates distrust that some in the PDP are not committed to it and will undermine outcome by lobbying Board or GAC.
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> ATRT2 Draft New Recommendations
> ICANN should:
> Fund facilitators and draft guidelines for when they can be used
> Provide funding for more F2F meetings
> Work with community to make PDP faster, to attract more people
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> The GAC should:
> With the GNSO, find ways to input to WGs and to GNSO Council on draft PDP reports
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> The Board and GNSO should:
> Start an initiative to increase participation from outside NA/Europe, non-English speaking, other cultures, people not funded by industry. Players
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> Also:
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> The Board should set procedures for what to do when the GNSO cannot come to a decision within the time, and state “under what conditions the Board believes it may alter PDP recommendations after formal Board acceptance”.
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> A step should be added to the PDP process where those unhappy with staff comment summary can respond.  
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