[ECAdmin] Approval Action Community Forum on Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendments in Articles 18 and 19 of the ICANN Bylaws

Fri Sep 22 13:51:01 UTC 2023

Dear Greg, Nico, Jonathan and German

Yesterday, during its monthly meeting, the ccNSO Council started the
discussion whether or not the Empowered Community Administration (ECA)
should request a community forum. During the call the view of our Approval
Process Manager and former member of the ECA (Stephen Deerhake) was shared
with the council, which I'm sharing with you as well:

“As you have probably gathered, I am a big advocate of having an Approval
Action Community Forum take place at the “next available” ICANN meeting
should the Board take an action that requires Empowered Community
approval.  If for no other reason, it’s a community-wide show of respect
for the Multi-stakeholder model, the Bylaws, and what we achieved as a
Community in successfully executing the Transition from the USG.  All need
to be taken seriously and shown due respect or else erosion will begin to
occur.

On behalf of the ECA, I managed the first ever Approval Action Community
Forum where Chris [Disspain, board member at the time] came and led the
dance with the Community on behalf of the Board.  It was completely
non-controversial, as I suspect these changes are as well, although I do
confess, I have not studied them in depth.  Although held “out of band”
early in the morning, that first forum had really solid attendance, which
was heartening.”

It looks like the ccNSO council will support this view and would like to
have a Community Forum at ICANN 78, but this will still need to be
confirmed by next Tuesday.

What are your thoughts on this?

Additionally, I would like to mention that receiving notifications from the
ICANN Secretary on a Saturday at 3:00am is not very helpful. It takes away
two days from us from a process step that is already limited in time (30
days to decide and if necessary organize a virtual community forum) and
another two days around the 30th day if we want a virtual Community Forum,
since 15 October (final day of community forum period) is a Sunday.

Best regards,
Alejandra

*Background / Timelines*
(see Annex D, section 1.3 c (
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#annexD)

Under the ICANN Bylaws, delivery of the Secretary’s Notices on 15 September:
(1) requires Decisional Participants to “promptly inform their
constituents” of the delivery of such notices; and
(2) triggers an Approval Action Community Forum Period, to convene a
Community Forum, which ends on the 30th day after the Approval Action Board
Notification Date (15 October 2023).

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On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 7:36 PM Ozan Sahin via ECAdmin <ecadmin at icann.org>
wrote:

> Dear Empowered Community Administration representatives,
>
>
>
> Under the ICANN Bylaws, delivery of the Secretary’s Notices on 15
> September: (1) requires Decisional Participants to “promptly inform their
> constituents” of the delivery of such notices; and (2) triggers an
> Approval Action Community Forum, regarding the Fundamental Bylaws
> Amendments relating to IANA Naming Function Reviews and the IANA Naming
> Function Separation Process, to be convened and concluded during the period
> beginning upon the Approval Action Board Notification Date (15 September
> 2023) and ending at 11:59 pm (PDT) on the 30th day after the Approval
> Action Board Notification Date (15 October 2023); or during the next
> scheduled ICANN public meeting (ICANN78). Please refer to Article 1.2,
> Annex D of the ICANN Bylaws for additional details on Approval Process
> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#annexD and
> note that Approval Action Community Forum is convened at the direction of
> the EC Administration.
>
>
>
> Please let support staff know whether EC Administration would like to
> convene an Approval Action Community Forum on the Fundamental Bylaws
> Amendments mentioned above. If this is the case, please also indicate
> whether the Empowered Community Administration prefers to have this
> Approval Action Community Forum in the form of a teleconference to be held
> before 15 October 2023, or as an in-person meeting during ICANN78. If an
> in-person meeting is requested, please inform support staff by *Wednesday,
> 27 September 2023* to allow enough time to add this session to the
> ICANN78 schedule.
>
>
>
> We will be happy to assist with any questions you may have about the
> process.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ozan Sahin (on behalf of the staff supporting Empowered Community
> Administration)
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *ECAdmin <ecadmin-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of John Jeffrey via
> ECAdmin <ecadmin at icann.org>
> *Reply-To: *John Jeffrey <john.jeffrey at icann.org>
> *Date: *16 September 2023 Saturday 04:08
> *To: *"ecadmin at icann.org" <ecadmin at icann.org>, "aso-chairs at aso.icann.org"
> <aso-chairs at aso.icann.org>, Jonathan Zuck <JZuck at innovatorsnetwork.org>,
> Alejandra Reynoso <alejandra.reynoso at cctld.gt>,
> "sebastien at registry.godaddy" <sebastien at registry.godaddy>, "
> gnso-chairs at icann.org" <gnso-chairs at icann.org>, Nicolas Caballero <
> nicustkd at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Tripti Sinha <tripti.sinha at board.icann.org>, Sally Costerton <
> sally.costerton at icann.org>
> *Subject: *[ECAdmin] Secretary's Notice to the Empowered Community
>
>
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> Attached please find the following Secretary’s Notice(s) to the Empowered
> Community:
>
>
>
>    - Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendments
>    - Notice of Board Approval of ICANN Standard Bylaws Amendments
>    - NomCom Bylaws Proposed for Adoption – August 2023
>
>
>
> Sent on behalf of John Jeffrey.
>
>
>
> Best,
> Peg
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Peg Rettino (she/her)
>
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>
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