[Ncsg-discuss] [Ext] [ICANN87] Board's questions to NCSG

[Kathy Kleiman]

<<A small update was sent for the question from the Board.

    The NCSG has cited challenges with capacity for supporting policy
    development in addition to the other community work such as reviews
    and has expressed concerns about the amount of concurrent work. What
    are the NCSG’s most significant challenges in monitoring and
    deciding which work to prioritize and focus resources? How can the
    Board assist the NCSG to plan and position itself better to ensure
    it is actively engaged on its priority policy topics for the future? >>


Hi Rafik and All,
I think the third question is key: "How can the Board assist the NCSG to 
plan and position itself better to ensure it is actively engaged on its 
priority policy topics for the future?"

We have some great answers here.  (1) Data -- the Board could encourage 
ICANN Org to commission neutral and independent data studies of upcoming 
policy issues and considerations.  That way there is a common base of 
information for everyone to use in their analysis and assessments. 
History shows this works well!
(2) Full and comprehensive reviews by Staff in preparation for upcoming 
Policy reviews.  We often feel that the summaries written for the GNSO 
Council are one-sided, with other stakeholders' concerns factored in 
heavily, but not NCSG. We also see ICANN Org summaries for the GNSO 
Council/Community overlooking key parts of history.  For example, ICANN 
has issued calls for comment on the UDRP since 2001 -- and regularly 
since then. Yet, the most recent ICANN UDRP summaries contained only the 
most recent set of comments, not the whole history of comments, 
critiques and studies (including academic studies from Professor Milton 
Mueller and Michael Geist) shared with ICANN over time -- although the 
UDRP has not changed substantively since 1999.

It would help us if we did not have to independently gather these 
studies, history and data.  It sometimes feels we have to do much more 
work, gather much more data, write more papers to gather the type of 
information that ICANN Org seems to regularly collect, collate and share 
for other stakeholders in its summaries.  It would help if that were not 
the case.

Best, Kathy

On 10/7/2026 12:13 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote:
> hi all,
>
> a reminder that we should submit the questions by 9th October. Please 
> share your input.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
>
> Le ven. 2 oct. 2026 à 23:50, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> a 
> écrit :
>
>     Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. We have one week to
>     finalize our questions and submit them.
>
>     Best,
>
>     Rafik
>
>
>     On Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 06:27 Andrea Glandon
>     <andrea.glandon at icann.org> wrote:
>
>         Hello all,
>
>         A small update was sent for the question from the Board.
>
>         The NCSG has cited challenges with capacity for supporting
>         policy development in addition to the other community work
>         such as reviews and has expressed concerns about the amount of
>         concurrent work. What are the NCSG’s most significant
>         challenges in monitoring and deciding which work to prioritize
>         and focus resources? How can the Board assist the NCSG to plan
>         and position itself better to ensure it is actively engaged on
>         its priority policy topics for the future?
>
>         Thanks!
>         *Andrea Glandon*
>         Policy Operations Specialist
>         Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>
>         *From: *NCSG-Discuss <NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on behalf
>         of Rafik Dammak <00001e06d4af460b-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
>         *Date: *Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 03:42
>         *To: *NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>         <NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
>         *Subject: *[Ext] [ICANN87] Board's questions to NCSG
>
>
>         Hi everyone,
>
>         As usual during the ICANN meeting,  we will have interaction
>         with the ICANN board during a joint meeting in ICANN87. The
>         board sent us this question below:
>         *
>         *
>         *The NCSG has cited challenges with capacity for supporting
>         policy development and has expressed concerns about the amount
>         of concurrent work. What are the NCSG’s most significant
>         challenges in monitoring and deciding how to support policy
>         development work? How can the Board assist the NCSG to plan
>         and position itself better to ensure it is actively engaged on
>         its priority policy topics for the future? *
>
>         The board is also asking us if we have any questions for them
>         to be addressed during the meeting and we should submit by 9th
>         October.
>
>         Please share your ideas and comments, and we will
>         summarize/consolidate them.
>
>         Best regards,
>
>         Rafik
>
-- 
Kathy Kleiman
Past President, Domain Name Rights Coalition
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