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[Ted Hardie]

Thanks for sharing this response.

My proposed agenda for our next meeting will boil down to two items:  what
actions does the GWG wish to take in light of this information and how will
the GWG communicate that plan to the ICANN board and the other constituent
bodies.

regards,

Ted

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 7:12 PM Verd, Brad <bverd at verisign.com> wrote:

> GWG Colleagues,
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> Here is the response from the RSO’s to your question.
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> You have asked: "We would like to understand what representative models,
> if any, are acceptable to the RSOs."
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> There is at present no consensus among the RSOs concerning what, if any,
> representative models might be acceptable in a future RSS Governance
> Structure. While the RSOs will give special attention to this question in
> their ongoing discussion of the RSS Governance Structure Success Criteria
> document, we anticipate that a more complete answer will emerge only later
> in that process as we have the opportunity to identify and discuss issues
> arising.
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> This is new and untested territory for the RSOs, who have never been
> represented in a governance structure by anyone other than ourselves and
> who wish to take extraordinary care to support the health of the Internet
> by limiting the risk of institutional "capture" presented by any such
> structure. (These principles are further expressed in RSSAC042
> and RSSAC037.)
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> With no current consensus among the RSOs on a representative model, it
> remains important that all of the RSOs are engaged individually with the
> GWG process.
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> Cheers,
> Brad
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> Below is the text of the question I sent in follow-up to our discussion at
> the last meeting:
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Thanks again for a productive meeting two weeks ago.  At our most recent
> meeting, the GWG reviewed the outcomes of that meeting (the approved
> minutes are here:
> https://community.icann.org/display/soacabout/Teleconferences+and+Work+Sessions?preview=/120820205/167544141/RSS%20GWG%20Teleconference%20%2332%20Minutes.pdf
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> One issue we discussed focuses on the question of how and whether
> representatives from the root server community can act on behalf of other
> root server community members.  While that discussion derived from the
> interventions by Robert and Jeff on the use of the representative model in
> the GWG, the question is much larger, as it reads on what forms of
> governance would be acceptable to the RSOs.
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> We would like to understand what representative models, if any, are
> acceptable to the RSOs.
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> We understand that you are putting together a document on the RSO
> community's sense of the success criteria here.  The RSS-GWG would like to
> ask you to prioritize the answer to this particular question and, if
> possible, provide an answer in advance of the full document.
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> best regards,
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> Ted Hardie
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