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<h2><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">News
Alert</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-23apr10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-23apr10-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Public Comment:
Community Comment Invited on Recommended New GNSO Work Prioritization Process</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">23
April 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At its 21 April 2010 meeting,
the GNSO Council approved the use of a set of recommended new operating
procedures designed to enable GNSO Councilors to begin categorizing and
prioritizing their major work projects so that the Council can fulfill its new
role as a strategic manager and coordinator of policy development activities
within the GNSO. The ICANN community is invited to provide comments on those
recommended new procedures. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Background/Explanation:
</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One of the fundamental tenets
of the GNSO Improvements efforts has been to move the GNSO Council away from
being a legislative body concerned primarily with voting towards becoming a
more focused strategic entity with strengthened management and oversight of the
policy development process. As part of that effort a newly restructured GNSO
Council was seated at the Seoul ICANN meeting in October 2009.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One of the new Counci's first
items of business was to organize a Drafting Team (the GNSO Work Process Model
Drafting Team – "WPM-DT") to develop a methodology for prioritizing
the GNSO’s project work. The ICANN Secretariat and Policy Staff had conducted
an analysis for the Council of the actual levels of participation and
attendance for GNSO Working Groups and Work Teams from the beginning of 2008
and continuing through approximately early September 2009. Staff’s final
report, delivered to the Council in Seoul, found " evidence of sporadic
attendance and, in some cases, very low participation by some Constituencies
and inconsistent participation by others." The Staff encouraged additional
community dialogue concerning the following questions: </span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How might
the GNSO’s work be prioritized? </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is there
too much GNSO work and, if so, what might be done to assess the total
capacity? </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are
Constituencies providing enough recruits to the groups being formed? </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
levels of group participation should be targeted for each Constituency?</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The WPM-DT focused its
efforts on that first question regarding Council priorities. On 9 April 2010,
the WPM-DT delivered a recommended model methodology and set of procedures to
help the Council prioritize its work. The WPM-DT’s intent was to ensure that the
recommended process: </span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">is
user-friendly, unambiguous, and straightforward to execute; </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">produces
realistic outputs that will help the Council to make effective management
decisions; and</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">is
structured as an on-going task that accommodates change including the
introduction of new projects as they are proposed in the future.</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At its 21 April meeting the
Council accepted the deliverable of the WPM-DT and approved the use of a new
Operating Procedures Chapter 6 and ANNEX <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/wpmg-section-6-and-annex-09apr10-en.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/wpmg-section-6-and-annex-09apr10-en.pdf</a>
[PDF, 137 KB] for conducting its first Work Prioritization effort. In addition
to directing the opening of this public Comment Forum, the Council established
a timetable for conducting its initial effort at a group working session when
councilors travel to Brussels, Belgium for the June 2010 ICANN meeting. The
full GNSO Council Resolution containing the timeline of the initial effort is
linked below. Community members are invited to review and comment on these new
procedures. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Document Links: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/wpmg-section-6-and-annex-09apr10-en.pdf">Proposed
Chapter 6 and ANNEX to GNSO Operating Procedures</a> [PDF, 137 KB] </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/cavalli-to-gnso-council-09apr10-en.pdf">Transmittal
Letter to GNSO Council from the WPM-DT Chair</a> [PDF, 13 KB]</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/presentation-wpm-21apr10-en.pdf">WPM-DT
Presentation to GNSO Council (21 April 2010)</a> [PDF, 559 KB]</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?21_april_motions">GNSO
Council Resolution Inviting Public Comment (21 April 2010)</a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://nbo.icann.org/meetings/nairobi2010/presentation-wpm-team-update-10mar10-en.pdf">WPM-DT
Presentation: GNSO Council Status Update (Nairobi)</a> [PDF, 1.90 MB]</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://sel.icann.org/meetings/seoul2009/presentation-gnso-wrap-up-29oct09-en.pdf">Presentation
by D. Michel: GNSO Participation Study (Seoul)</a> [PDF, 524 KB]</span></li></ul>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Process From
Here: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the end of this Public
Comment Forum period, ICANN Staff will review the comments submitted and
prepare a summary analysis of the various submissions for GNSO Council review.
The Council conditioned approval of the new procedures and said it reserves the
right to modify the procedures described in Chapter 6 and the ANNEX after the
conclusion of both the public comment period and the first Work Prioritization
effort. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Deadline and How to
Submit Comments: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the direction of the GNSO
Council, the Staff is opening a 21-day public consultation forum, from 26 April
through 16 May 2010 and invites community comments on this document. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The formal Public Comment Forum
Box is located here: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201005-en.htm#wp">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201005-en.htm#wp</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To submit comments: <a href="mailto:work-prioritization@icann.org">work-prioritization@icann.org</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To view comments: <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/work-prioritization/">http://forum.icann.org/lists/work-prioritization/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Staff Responsible: Robert
Hoggarth </span></p>
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