[council] FW: Proposed Addition to response to GAC Communique

[Michele Neylon - Blacknight]

All

Please see below from Jeff Neuman – forwarding, as he cannot send directly to the Council list.

Regards

Michele


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From: Jeff Neuman <jeff.neuman at comlaude.com>
Date: Wednesday 12 July 2017 at 15:03
To: Michele Neylon <michele at blacknight.com>, Philip Corwin <psc at vlaw-dc.com>
Cc: James Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com>, "Austin, Donna" <Donna.Austin at neustar.biz>, Heather Forrest <haforrestesq at gmail.com>, avri doria <avri at apc.org>, Nathalie Peregrine <nathalie.peregrine at icann.org>, Steve Chan <steve.chan at icann.org>, Emily Barabas <emily.barabas at icann.org>, Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund at icann.org>
Subject: Proposed Addition to response to GAC Communique

Michele and Phil,

I cannot post to the Council list, but I would like to recommend in my role as one of the Co-Chairs of the Subsequent Procedures PDP, that the Council strongly consider adding something like the following paragraph to its response to the Communique.  Although I understand that the Council likes to keep its responses to just the areas where the GAC gives formal advice, and the geographic names issue was not formal advice in this communique, it was formal advice in previous communiques.  In fact their message to the Board is for them to take not and essentially reaffirm their previous advice.  Therefore, I think it is imperative to send this message to the Board before the Board takes any action:

“The GNSO Council also takes note of the “Geographic Names as Top-Level Domains“ section of the communiqué restating previous advice and positions. Among those positions are references that imply that certain geographic top-level domains should be addressed by, and only through, a ccNSO PDP.  With respect to that position we note (i) that a ccNSO PDP was not commenced on country and territory names at the top-level, (ii) a Cross Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names produced a final report in which no recommendations were made on any issues other than the use of two-characters at the top-level, and (iii) these issues are currently within the scope of and charter of the GNSO Policy Develop Process on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro PDP).  Our understanding is that the SubPro PDP will be establishing a new Work Track 5 on Geographic Names at the Top Level and inviting persons from each of the SOs and ACs to participate in the leadership of that Work Track.  The GNSO Council encourages participation from the community, including the GAC, in that SubPro PDP to ensure a multi-stakeholder bottom up solution to this issue.”

I have included Avri on this to see if she has any additional comments.  I would appreciate it if this could be forwarded to the Council list.

Thanks.

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