[Gnso-igo-ingo-crp] Statement from the Co-Chairs

[George Kirikos]

Hi Mary,

It seems your email came in while I was responding to the prior one.
In particular, see point #4 of:

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-igo-ingo-crp/2018-February/001086.html

Sending the GNSO Council leadership further emails and exchanges was
*not* what was agreed to on January 11th. I was the only one entitled
to make a further response to the January 16th 2018 PDF, and everyone
agreed to that.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
416-588-0269
http://www.leap.com/

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 6:26 PM, Mary Wong <mary.wong at icann.org> wrote:
> Hello Phil and everyone,
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> Staff has provided the GNSO Council leadership and the Council liaison to
> this PDP with copies of the email exchanges that took place this week on our
> mailing list, as well as a copy of the co-chairs’ 31 January proposal, as
> requested by Phil.
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> We understand that the GNSO Chair, Dr Heather Forrest, is away next week so
> it is probable that we will not receive her response before her return.
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> In the meantime, we invite Working Group members who have not yet weighed in
> on the question as to whether you support (or not) the use of a community
> facilitator to indicate your preference via this mailing list.
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> Thank you.
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> Cheers
>
> Mary and Steve
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> From: Gnso-igo-ingo-crp <gnso-igo-ingo-crp-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of
> "Corwin, Philip via Gnso-igo-ingo-crp" <gnso-igo-ingo-crp at icann.org>
> Reply-To: "Corwin, Philip" <pcorwin at verisign.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 09:39
> To: "gnso-igo-ingo-crp at icann.org" <gnso-igo-ingo-crp at icann.org>
> Subject: [Gnso-igo-ingo-crp] Statement from the Co-Chairs
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> The co-chairs are extremely disappointed by Mr. Kirikos’ rejection of what
> we believe is a very reasonable compromise proposal regarding a path forward
> for this WG. That proposal withdraws the request that the poll sought by the
> co-chairs to assist them in performing their Guideline duties be anonymous,
> and accepts consideration of his proposal (subject to WG support) for a
> facilitated session in which maximum participation of WG members will be
> encouraged.
>
> A review of the transcript of the January 18th call held between the
> co-chairs shows that there was no agreement on every element of a path
> forward, only an agreement to vet the concept of a facilitated session with
> the full WG. As noted from page 32 of the transcript, Mr. Kirikos - at least
> at the time of the second call - seemed to accept such way to move
> forward[1]. Notwithstanding Mr. Kirikos’ decision to reject our compromise
> offer and continue his section 3.7 appeal, the co-chairs continue to
> encourage feedback from other members on our proposal and thank those who
> have already responded.
>
> ICANN 61 is just five weeks away, and the co-chairs are concerned that
> further substantial delay in resolving the 3.7 appeal will make it
> logistically impossible to secure the assistance of a community facilitator
> for the WG’s session there if there is overall WG support for that approach.
> We will therefore request that staff provide the GNSO Council Chair with a
> copy of our compromise proposal, copies of Mr. Kirikos’ email responses on
> the WG list, a copy of this further response from the co-chairs, and copies
> of feedback on our proposal from other WG members -- along with a request
> from the co-chairs that the Council Chair or her designated representative
> decide his appeal as expeditiously as possible. Those materials will make
> clear that the issue of an anonymous poll is no longer in dispute, and that
> the appeal is now confined to an objection to the co-chairs’ exercise of
> their discretion to utilize a public and transparent poll of WG members to
> assist us in proposing consensus levels and initiate the consensus call
> process recommended in section 3.6 of the Guidelines, as well as address any
> potential allegations of WG “capture”.
>
> We thank WG members for their continued patience and feedback, and hope we
> can resume WG activities and complete our work as soon as possible and
> thereby conclude final recommendations on the topics of our WG.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philip Corwin and Petter Rindforth
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>
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> [1] ICANN Transcription Call to discuss George Kirikos appeal under section
> 3.7 of the GNSO WG guidelines / Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 17:00 UTC /
> Page 32: (George Kirikos): “…And I actually proposed earlier in the chat
> room that, you know, we can put this proposed solution to the working group
> members to see how they feel and I concur with that”
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> Philip S. Corwin
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> [1] ICANN Transcription Call to discuss George Kirikos appeal under section
> 3.7 of the GNSO WG guidelines / Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 17:00 UTC /
> Page 32: (George Kirikos): “…And I actually proposed earlier in the chat
> room that, you know, we can put this proposed solution to the working group
> members to see how they feel and I concur with that”
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