[PC-NCSG] Arguments Rejected

[Edward Morris]

At their meeting on Monday the Board rejected our arguments that incorporating RPM's from the new GTLD program into the .TRAVEL, .CAT and .PRO renewal agreements constituted policymaking by contract; that is, that  ICANN has gone around the PDP process and made these new mechanisms (for example, the URS) de facto consensus policies. Thanks to everyone who worked with me in Buenos Aires to draft our sadly unsuccessful public comments on these renewals.

In other news, the Board chose Panama City as the host of next summers ICANN meeting. With the fall meeting in Puerto Rico that means our Meetings for next year will be held in two locations 1,100 miles from each other. London and Dublin, the sites for the next and last European meetings, are about 290 miles from each other. That is more diverse than our last two Latin American meetings prior to Panama City, both of which were held in Buenos Aires. To the extent ICANN's Meeting strategy is part of ICANN's global outreach strategy I would suggest it needs some work.  

A complete rundown of the Board's resolutions from Monday can be found here: https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2015-09-28-en#2.f .

Best,

Ed

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