Clarifications on the Goals and Objections of the New gTLD Auction Proceeds ccWG

[Sam Lanfranco]

NCSG Colleagues,

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: 
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

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.

The Charter specifically states that “The CCWG will _not_ [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).

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 *_does not_* include 
a discussion of uses (for what?) or recipients (for whom?). 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.

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.


Sam Lanfranco
/Canadian Society for International Health/

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