NCSG Responses to Accountability & Transparency Review Team Questions

[William Drake]

Konstantinos,

Fantastic, thanks.  I had a little experience in the Council with the IRT boot up...I asked for more than one day to inform NC about it and encourage participation, and was told that sorry, we must close the window tomorrow.  Couple months later on a call I heard it said that civil society was given every opportunity to participate but didn't take it and hence shouldn't complain.   Sigh...

Best,

Bill

On Jun 13, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote:

> Dear Bill and Rafik,
> 
> Thank you for this. Kathy suggested and I feel is a great idea, we submit
> comments on the way the IRT was chosen and conducted the whole process of
> trademark protection. This falls within item 11 in the review team questions
> posted on the socialtext site.
> 
> PIR supports this and I think it beneficial to expose a process which
> failed to meet the minimum standards of accountability and transparency.
> Remember that the IRT was highly comprised by trademark representatives,
> non-commercial users were not invited and there we even some peculiar
> confidentiality issues in place.
> 
> KK
> 
> 
> On 12/06/2010 10:10, "William Drake" <william.drake at GRADUATEINSTITUTE.CH>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello again,
>> 
>> After playing with different options, Rafik and I decided to put the ATRT
>> questions on the Social Text site.  He's posted them at
>> https://st.icann.org/ncsg-ec/index.cgi?atrt_questionaire.   Any and all member
>> responses to whichever questions you feel like addressing would be very
>> helpful.
>> 
>> Thanks much,
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:31 AM, William Drake wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> As has been mentioned on the list a few times over the past couple of weeks,
>> there's a lot going on now with respect to the Review Team mechanism set up in
>> accordance with the Affirmation of Commitments, e.g.
>> 
>> 
>> 1.  Council last night took up the motion to approve the GNSO endorsement
>> process.  https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?10_june_motions  Alas,
>> unexpected complications, the IPC wants an amendment that would make the
>> process more formal, political, and time consuming without in my view adding
>> any value—basically to ensure that if the Council decides to endorse any
>> additional people in order to increase the diversity of GNSOs nominees, it can
>> only do so from a small subset that the SGs have specified in advance rather
>> than the whole applicant pool, so as to maximize SG control an
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
> Lecturer in Law,
> GigaNet Membership Chair,
> University of Strathclyde,
> The Lord Hope Building,
> 141 St. James Road,
> Glasgow, G4 0LT,
> UK
> tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306
> email: k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk 
> 
> 

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William J. Drake
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Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
 Development Studies
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