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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20feb14-en.htm">http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20feb14-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Additional Call for Volunteers: New Working Group on Data & Metrics for Policy Making (non-PDP)<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Last Updated: 20 February 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Date: <span class=date-display-single>20 February 2014</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In Brief<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council seeks volunteers to serve on a new Working Group (WG). The Data & Metrics for Policy Making WG will be tasked with exploring opportunities with respect to reporting and metrics recommendations that could better inform policy development via fact-based decision making, where applicable. The GNSO Council approved the WG's charter at its 23 Jan 2014 meeting and assigned a Council Liaison.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What This Team Will Do<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The WG will research and deliberate the issues identified in the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/uofr-final-31mar13-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>Final Issue Report on Uniformity of Reporting</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and as defined in the Charter approved by the GNSO Council. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Activities will include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>establishing a baseline of current practices and capabilities to problem reporting<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>evaluate previous PDP and non-PDP efforts and how metrics could have enhanced the WG process<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>review existing GNSO work product templates, like charters, issue reports, and final reports for possible enhancements to inform the PDP and non-PDP process<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>evaluate external data sources that may benefit the policy process such as abuse statistics or DNS industry related data and define a possible framework in how it may be accessed<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>prepare preliminary recommendations and obtain community input<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The expectation of the WG is to produce a Final Recommendations Report addressing all community input and then submit it to the GNSO Council for their consideration and next steps, if any.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How This Team Will Work<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN WGs use transparent, open processes. The meetings of this WG will be recorded, and the recordings will be available to the public. The mailing list for the WG will be archived publicly and WG members are expected to submit Statements of Interest (</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/New+SOIs"><span lang=EN-US>SOI</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>). The group will collaborate using a public workspace for draft materials and all final work products and milestones will be documented on the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/metrep"><span lang=EN-US>WG's project page</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. The WG is expected to follow the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>GNSO Working Group Guidelines</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How to Join<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The GNSO Council invites interested parties to provide names of expected participants who can then be added to the WG mailing list. The WG will be open to anyone interested to join. Community members who wish to be invited to join the group should contact the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org?subject=Application%20to%20Join%20GNSO%20Data%20and%20Metrics%20Policy%20Making%20Working%20Group"><span lang=EN-US>GNSO secretariat</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org"><span lang=EN-US>gnso.secretariat@icann.org</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Background<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 2010 Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) identified the Meta Issue: Uniformity of Reporting which it described as "need for more uniformity in the mechanisms to initiate, track, and analyze policy-violation reports." The RAPWG recommended in its Final Report that "the GNSO and the larger ICANN community in general, create and support uniform problem-reporting and report-tracking processes."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The GNSO Council recommended the creation of an </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/uofr-final-31mar13-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>Issue Report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> to further research metrics and reporting needs in hopes to improve the policy development process. The report created by ICANN Staff outlined accomplishments regarding reporting and metrics by the Contractual Compliance function and it also reviewed other reporting sources that may be of relevance. The GNSO Council subsequently adopted the recommendation to form this non-PDP Working Group tasked with exploring opportunities for developing reporting and metrics processes and/or appropriate standardized methodologies that could better inform fact-based policy development and decision making. The GNSO resolution states:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Resolved,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The GNSO Council does not initiate a Policy Development Process at this stage but will review at the completion of the ICANN Contractual Compliance three-year plan expected for 31 December 2013 whether additional action is required;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The GNSO Council further approves the creation of a drafting team to develop a charter for a non-PDP Working Group to consider additional methods for collecting necessary metrics and reporting from Contracted Parties and other external resources to aid the investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More information can be found on the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/uofr"><span lang=EN-US>GNSO Metrics & Reporting WG page</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR'>Glen de Saint Géry <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR'>GNSO Secretariat <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR'><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org">http://gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>