Fwd: Update from the SOAC chairs meeting on Review of Reviews

[Tomslin Samme-Nlar]

Hi NCSG,

Please see below and attached draft of the Review of Review Cross Community
Group charter that is up for discussion and voting during the Council's
August meeting.
We will also be discussing it during the Policy Committee call on 11th
August.

Remain blessed,
Tomslin

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From: Tomslin Samme-Nlar <mesumbeslin at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 09:02
Subject: Update from the SOAC chairs meeting on Review of Reviews
To: Council at icann.org <council at icann.org>, GNSO Council List <
council at gnso.icann.org>
Cc: Julie Bisland via Gnso-secs <gnso-secs at icann.org>, Steve Chan <
steve.chan at icann.org>


Hi Councilors,

The council small team on Review of Reviews is still doing its work but due
to the time sensitive nature of some of the decisions SO/AC chairs are
making, I wanted to share an update of what came out of the last SOAC
chairs meeting.

In the SO/AC chairs meeting on August 31st, a stable draft charter of a
Cross Community Group (CCG) was agreed upon which I have attached to this
email.

Because of the time critical nature of the anticipated work of the CCG and
the anticipated deliverables coded in the charter that are expected by the
ICANN84 meeting, while also acknowledging that SOs and ACs still need to
discuss the charter draft according to their internal processes for formal
approval, the SOAC Chairs agreed to formally send the stable draft to the
board with a caveat that formal approval from SOs and ACs is pending.

It is also leadersip's understanding that the board will be requesting
nominating organisations to nominate their nominees for the CCG group for
the group to start working circa mid-late August. For GNSO nominations, we
think the SSC should be tasked with this.

As a result, leadership is sharing this stable draft, with the expectation
that councillors will discuss the charter with their groups before our
August meeting and ideally, only egregious errors or omissions will be
expected to alter the stable draft.

Finally, on the topic of bylaws amendment, there was support from the SOAC
chairs to have the board proceed with the the bylaws amendment in parallel
to the CCG work. Our understanding again is that the board intends to lead
this bylaws amendment process and will formally communicate this to the
community.

I have also attached the letter sent to the board by the SOAC chairs.

Remain blessed,
Tomslin
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