[PC-NCSG] fw: Re: [council] Review of CCWG - ACCT Report

[Edward Morris]

 Hi everybody,
  
  
 I'm forwarding a post I just made to the Council list in response to a request by Council Chair James Bladel concerning the GNSO response to the CCWG 3rd draft report. Amongst James request was that one Councillor from each SG take the lead in reporting to the Council the work of the individual SG's on the matter. I thank the confidence my fellow NCSG Councillors have shown in me by allowing me to serve in this role.
  
 The GNSO response to the CCWG 3rd draft report is going to be crucial. It's is absolutely ridiculous that the SO's are being asked to produce a report concurrently with the general public comment period but, despite our protests,  this apparently is the way things are going to proceed. I, and I'm sure all of other Councillors,  look forward to working with Member Robin, Chairs Tapani, Amr, Bill and Rudi, all the CCWG participants, and everyone on this list and beyond,  to ensure that our views and those of the wider noncommercial community are contained in the GNSO response. This is important stuff.
  
 Just a reminder: twenty two days until Christmas, eighteen days until public comments on the CCWG third draft report are due.
  
 Best,
  
 Ed Morris
  
  

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 From: "Edward Morris" <emorris at milk.toast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:15 PM
To: "James M. Bladel" <jbladel at godaddy.com>, "GNSO Council List" <council at gnso.icann.org>
Subject: Re: [council] Review of CCWG - ACCT Report   
 Hi James,
  
 Thanks for getting out in front of this.  I've been designated as be the NCSG Councillor reporting to the Council list on all things CCWG-ACCT.
  
 As we approach the one year anniversary of the very first CCWG-ACCT meeting (December 9th) it truly is amazing how much the CCWG has accomplished, and the amount of detail and effort that has gone into the third draft report is extraordinary. Thanks go out to so many from the GNSO who have dedicated large portions of their lives this past year getting the CCWG to this point. Much has been done, even more still needs to be done, and as a charting organisation the input we'll be sending to the CCWG in response to the third draft report is crucial to the success of this effort.
  
 In response to your bullet points:
  
   *  Efforts (planned or underway) in their SG/C to review & discuss the Draft Report
   
 Substantive discussion of the specifics of the proposal has begun on the various mailing lists of the NCSG and of it's constituent parts (NCUC/NPOC). The NCSG Policy Committee is currently organising itself to produce it's own public comment by the December 21st deadline. Several of our organisational and individual members have indicated that they will be filing separate comments. We will be having a Webinar on the report next week and a large portion of the NCSG policy call on December 15th is expected to be devoted to the draft report. 
  
  *  The expected time frame for completing the review, and any deadlines for the SG to raise concerns
   
 Frankly, given the short amount of time allowed for public comment the entire concept of a time frame is almost nonsensical here. Twenty one days is insufficient time to thoroughly respond to the myriad of issues raised in the draft report. As many of our Members (NCSG's 500 Members come from over 100 different countries) are not native English speakers their time frame for public comment is effectively reduced to nine days. As such, our review of the third draft report is ongoing and I expect will continue to the final public comment deadline of December 21st, and beyond.  
  
  
  
  *  Any issues or topics arising from this review that need to be discussed by the Council, and/or included in our response back to the CCWG.
   
 As noted, our review is ongoing. I do expect substantial progress to have been made by our NCSG policy call on December 15th and I, along with my fellow NCSG Councillors, will  be prepared to discuss our concerns and conclusions, to date, on the December 17th Council call. 
  
 There obviously is much work to be done by Council between now and the December 21st public comment deadline. To the extent it would be helpful, I'm happy to volunteer for any tasks that may need to be done on this during the coming few weeks. It might upset Santa Claus a bit but something tells me a split root would upset him even more! Despite the time constraints let's do our best to give the CCWG some quality input worthy of the GNSO's talented and dynamic membership.
  
 Kind Regards,
  
 Ed Morris
  
  
   
 The Draft Report is expected to be published on 30 Nov, with the comment period closing on 21 Dec.  No question that this is an extremely tight schedule, and hopefully this approach will allow us to gather topics for discussion on our next call on 17 Dec.
  
 Thanks-
  
 J.
  


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