[council] FW: GNSO Meeting with the Board : Topics

[Austin, Donna]

Thanks Bruce

It was the subsequent procedures on new gTLDs PDP that I had in mind where I believe it would be beneficial to have structured discussions to either respond to, or perhaps even avoid, the situation where GAC advice is at odds with the PDP recommendations. The PDP WG is making progress on a number of topics and it may be possible to have trilateral sessions before finalization of the PDP recommendations and GAC advice, or vice versa. If we don't have the opportunity for such discussion, I fear there will be unnecessary and potentially lengthy delays.


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Hello Donna.


>>  On the second point, I really think we would benefit from organized and sometimes moderated trilateral discussions, rather than the Board and GAC/ the Council and the Board/ and the GAC and the Council having separate discussions on the same subject. The continuous back and forth on the IGO acronym and Red Cross issues are a case in point. Perhaps this could have been circumvented if there had been an opportunity for open communication across the three groups. 

I completely agree the current – GAC-Board, GNSO-Board, GNSO-GAC combination of separate meetings sometimes spread over multiple ICANN meetings (ie Board might discuss a topic with GNSO in one public meeting, and discuss the same topic with GAC at a different public meeting)  is dysfunctional.    I would much prefer a structured GAC-GNSO-Board meeting on topics related to gTLDs, where the GAC has provided advice.


Regards,
Bruce Tonkin