Effectiveness of GAC Advice BGRIWG ICANN 56 Meeting
Effectiveness of GAC Advice BGRI-WG ICANN 56 Meeting – Helsinki
BACKGROUND
BGRI-WG The Board-GAC Recommendations Implementation Working Group (BGRI-WG): • Created => implement GAC-related recommendations of ATRT 1 • Extended => implement GAC-related recommendations of ATRT 2 • Re-convened => look into Effectiveness of GAC advice
GAC Advice Effectiveness Review • In Dublin the GAC raised the need to periodically review whether and how effective the Board has taken GAC advice into account • ACIG analyzed the issue and prepared a Review Report • Board referred the issue to the BGRI-WG to analyze and develop recommendations
EFFECTIVENESS OF GAC ADVICE REVIEW – ACIG REPORT
Key Findings In some cases it is extremely difficult to determine: • Whether (or not) ICANN Board has accepted GAC Advice, • Where there is clear evidence that advice has been accepted, to what degree it has been implemented, and • Whether or not the GAC feel the implementation adequately meets GAC’s original intent
Work Plan 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Work Activity Confirm, or fine tune, current definition of what constitutes GAC advice. Agree on structure/elements of GAC advice: templates for communique/letters. Investigate the need for post-communique Board-GAC exchange to clarify any areas of uncertainty in the Communique. Review and consolidate logging and tracking mechanisms into a single, transparent, easy to access and easy to manage portal. Review the new platform features to ensure the ability to archive, track, retrieve, search and categorize GAC advice is satisfactory. Review the existing GAC records and see if the missing detail can be completed. Document the overall process in a cross functional flow chart, illustrating checkpoints, roles and responsibilities. Agree on how to institutionalize all agreed elements. Timeframe At Helsinki In progress By Hyderabad Post Hyderabad 9. Investigate the need to review the GAC Operating Principles in light of the Post Hyderabad BGRI outcomes.
Recommendation #1 “Review and make clear to all parties what forms of communication from the GAC comprise “GAC Advice”” Discussion: – Common understanding / Approach – Implementation element(s) / Deliverable(s) – Timeframe / Responsibilities – Documentation / Institutionalization
Recommendation #2 “Decide and describe the intended public policy outcome for each piece of GAC Advice and include this in the statement of Advice itself. ” Discussion: – Common understanding / Approach – Implementation element(s) / Deliverable(s) – Timeframe / Responsibilities – Documentation / Institutionalization
Recommendation #3 “Within each piece of Advice, articulate the separate implementable elements: ” Discussion: – Common understanding / Approach – Implementation element(s) / Deliverable(s) – Timeframe / Responsibilities – Documentation / Institutionalization
Recommendation #4 “Improve the existing GAC Advice Register and remove the duplication of current material. ” Discussion: – Common understanding / Approach – Implementation element(s) / Deliverable(s) – Timeframe / Responsibilities – Documentation / Institutionalization
Recommendation #5 “Roles and Responsibilities with regard to maintaining the Register of Advice need to be made explicit and clear either via the GAC Operating Principles or via a service performance contract. Currently no party has explicit responsibility to maintain these key records. ” Discussion: – Common understanding / Approach – Implementation element(s) / Deliverable(s) – Timeframe / Responsibilities – Documentation / Institutionalization
Recommendation #6 “The BGRI should: • Consider the recommendations in this paper and provide its views to the Board and the GAC on appropriate next steps; and • Review the arrangements for the provision of “GAC Advice” agreed during the ATRT 1 process and provide their views of what constitutes GAC Advice to both the Board and the GAC. ” Discussion: – Common understanding / Approach – Implementation element(s) / Deliverable(s) – Timeframe / Responsibilities – Documentation / Institutionalization
THE WAY FORWARD
Work Plan 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Work Activity Confirm, or fine tune, current definition of what constitutes GAC advice. Agree on structure/elements of GAC advice: templates for communique/letters. Investigate the need for post-communique Board-GAC exchange to clarify any areas of uncertainty in the Communique. Review and consolidate logging and tracking mechanisms into a single, transparent, easy to access and easy to manage portal. Review the new platform features to ensure the ability to archive, track, retrieve, search and categorize GAC advice is satisfactory. Review the existing GAC records and see if the missing detail can be completed. Document the overall process in a cross functional flow chart, illustrating checkpoints, roles and responsibilities. Agree on how to institutionalize all agreed elements. Timeframe At Helsinki In progress By Hyderabad Post Hyderabad 9. Investigate the need to review the GAC Operating Principles in light of the Post Hyderabad BGRI outcomes.
Thank You
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