Hi Maria, small first remark as well. Could you please add me to the list of attendees? Thanks Marília On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Maria Farrell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Many thanks for the great turnout and discussion yesterday. As the GNSO > Council agenda was pretty light, we had a useful and informative discussion > on some broader topics, which I personally found very helpful - so thanks > to everyone. > > All the best, Maria > > NCSG PC > > 12 Oct 2014 > > > > Participants: > > Joy Liddicoat > > Amr El Sadr > > Olevie Kouami > > Carolos Affonso > > Wendy Seltzer > > Carlos Guttierez > > Niels ten Oever > > Lori Schulman > > Sam LanFranco > > Stephanie Perrin > > Maria Farrell > > Avri Doria > > Bill Drake > > David Cake > > Robin Gross > > Milton Mueller > > Magaly Pazello > > Klaus Stoll > > > > 1 Prep for High Interest Topic SO/AC meeting > > a. Role of Advisory Committees in ICANN policy-making > > i. Keep > the GAC role in the discussion, even though the agenda has been changed to > focus less on the GAC > > ii. Provide > input to the bylaw change public comment period on changing Board voting > threshold for rejecting GAC advice > > iii. Remind > people that GAC advice has a much shallower process than GNSO policy > > iv. Find > an opportunity to mention the accepted need for the Human Rights Advisory > Committee > > b. New gTLDs, 2nd round > > i. Evaluate > the first round before the second one begins (need clarity on where that > point is) > > ii. Developing > country support and outreach to developing countries – we can say > diplomatically ‘we told you so’ as we were not listened to on these topics > and the consequences are clear > > iii. What > are the criteria for success or failure of the round (and programme does > not equal success or failure of individual TLDs)? NCSG believes narrowly > economic criteria are far too narrow and we will push to develop evaluation > criteria that go wider, including the non-commercial and often positive > economic implications of commercial TLDs > > iv. Evaluation > should not just focus on who got names or what TLDs there are, and also > look at who did NOT apply and why not > > v. The > programme was overly concerned to avoid gaming, which happened anyway, and > not concerned with many non-commercial issues > > vi. The > role of the Independent Experts needs to be looked at sharply in the review > – they brought little useful or new to the evaluation of specific TLDs > > vii. We > should start evaluating the issues right now, i.e. the problems that have > arisen, rather than wait to the end of the process to start looking at them > > viii. We > should propose a Programme Evaluation Framework, i.e. a logic model that > looks at what the objectives of the programme were (or should have been) > and measuring it up against them. > > 2 GNSO Council agenda prep > > a. Voting on resolutions on IRTP(D) and to adopt the charter of the > Cross Community Working Group are expected to be largely positive. > > i. Avri > took part in the various IRTP working groups and endorsed the work. > > ii. Bill, > Avri and David gave background of the CCWG charter process and what it > might be expected to achieve, and encouraged Council members to vote in > favour of it. > > 3 Maria said as she is finishing her term as a Council > member, she will shortly be stepping down as Chair of the NCSG PC and so we > will need to start a process to elect a new chair. More on that anon. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-NCSG mailing list > [log in to unmask] > http://mailman.ipjustice.org/listinfo/pc-ncsg > > -- *Marília Maciel* Pesquisadora Gestora - Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - FGV Direito Rio Researcher and Coordinator - Center for Technology & Society - FGV Law School http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts DiploFoundation associate - www.diplomacy.edu PoliTICs Magazine Advisory Committee - http://www.politics.org.br/ Subscribe "Digital Rights: Latin America & the Caribbean" - http://www.digitalrightslac.net/en