<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear Sam, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Since I was not at the meeting and many NCSG members were not present either, could you do me a favor and tell me what prompted this email? You mean our only NCSG representative (Stephanie) in that group (since no one else volunteered, I believe) was not clear about the scope of the group? Also to be honest I don't understand how the mandate provides an absolute clarification. The mandate and scope of this group are somehow vague. It says it does not include discussion of uses or recipient but at the same time it says it has to find ways on how to deal with potential or actual conflict of interest and it has to even consider the scope of fund allocation. I am not surprised if the NCSG discussion sidetracked considering that the charter itself is so vague! Good luck to whoever is working on this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Farzaneh </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Sam Lanfranco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca" target="_blank">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>NCSG
Colleagues, <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>As an
aid to the rambling
discussion about ICANN’s auction funds in today’s Johannesburg
NCSG meeting it is
worth a quick review of the goals & objectives of the
relevant CCWG, in
order to understand the limited scope and remit of the auctions
CCWG. The charter is found at: <span></span><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/CWGONGAP/2017-01-26+CCWG+New+gTLD+Auction+Proceeds+call?preview=/63156495/64064683/new%20gTLD%20Auction%20Proceeds%20Charter%20-%2022%20January%202017.pdf" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/<wbr>display/CWGONGAP/2017-01-26+<wbr>CCWG+New+gTLD+Auction+<wbr>Proceeds+call?preview=/<wbr>63156495/64064683/new%20gTLD%<wbr>20Auction%20Proceeds%<wbr>20Charter%20-%2022%20January%<wbr>202017.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>The
Goals & Objectives state
that the CCWG tasked with developing proposal(s) for
consideration by Chartering
Organizations on [the] mechanism to be developed in order to
allocate new gTLD Auction
Proceeds, and to consider the scope of fund allocation,
necessary conditions to
preserve ICANN’s tax status and how to deal with potential or
actual conflicts
of interest. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>The
Charter specifically states
that “The CCWG will <u>not</u> [underlined in the Charter] make
recommendations
or determinations with regards to specific funding decisions
(i.e. which
specific organizations or projects are to be considered eligible
for funding, or
not). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Earlier
discussions at ICANN
conferences and within the CCWG meetings have reaffirmed that
the Charter remit
includes the nature of the mechanism (an arm’s length
foundation, an ICANN
based entity, etc.), the nature of the governance of that
mechanism, compliance with ICANN’s not-for-profit status, and
dealing with conflict of interest. Earlier discussions also made
clear that the Charter remit <b><u>does not</u></b> include a
discussion of uses (for what?)
or recipients (for whom?). <span> </span>Those
issues
are to be addressed in a subsequent, most likely working group,
consultation,
probably with its own Charter. Lastly, the proposals go "for
consideration by the Chartering Organizations" and not directly
to the Board. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>A lot
more clarity, and less time
off topic, could have taken place in today’s meeting if this had
been made
clear at the start, especially for the new NCSG participants. <span> </span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<br>
<span>Sam
Lanfranco</span><br>
<i><span>Canadian
Society for
International Health</span></i><br>
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