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

[Stephanie Perrin]

My humble apologies for failing to make these facts clear.

Stephanie Perrin


On 2017-06-27 12:52, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
>
> 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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