Update on CCWG-IG

[Michael Oghia]

Thanks for your work on this Farzaneh. Do you know if government is
represented on the CCWG-IG? I don't recall seeing anyone from the GAC at
the meeting in Copenhagen.

Best,
-Michael

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 1:13 AM, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am the NCSG representative on Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) on
> Internet governance. ICANN has various kinds of groups and structures which
> allow for policy and governance discussions. CCWG is one of such groups.
>
> As I informed you a couple of weeks ago, CCWG-IG is discussing its format
> and whether its activities at ICANN should be carried out within a CCWG
> format or should it be dismantled and take place through other structures
> such as a working party instead of a cross community working group. They
> had a meeting a couple of weeks ago which I could not unfortunately attend,
> but Nigel has taken some notes attached here.
>
> At NCSG meeting we also discussed this as a motion was filed at the GNSO
> Council to withdraw GNSO from the CCWG-IG as a chartering organization. We
> suggested a friendly amendment and the motion was deferred to be discussed
> in the end of August.
>
> The gist of the notes of the CCWG-IG meeting:
>
> 1. There will be an CCWG-IG IGF Workshop (https://www.intgovforum.org/
> multilingual/) in December. They want to expand the reach of the workshop
> to various stakeholder groups and invite others to contribute. Generally,
> civil society and noncommercial are pretty well represented on these panels
> but some stakeholder groups at ICANN have not yet participated in
> organizing such workshops. I think one of the aims of the group should be
> to involve the less active stakeholder groups more in the CCWG.
>
> 2. They are talking about dismantling the CCWG-IG and coming up with
> another "vehicle" that still offers the benefits of a ccwg-ig such as staff
> support for its meetings( that merely means staff to take notes, run adobe,
> provide transcripts if need be etc) and that group still be able to have
> chartering organizations. (chartering organizations means that the
> organizations involved with ICANN -GNSO, CCNSO etc- adopt its charter). But
> they are not sure how any other group format other than a CCWG allow for
> all these so they will offer some suggestions for the next call.
>
> 3. They established a :Small Team to draft the characteristics / mission
> / requirements of Group. I volunteered to be a part of the group.
>
>
> Don't hesitate to contact me if you need more information.
>
>
> Farzaneh
>
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