Dear All,
This is just a very quick update on the highlights
from ICANN57.
GAC leadership team -
The GAC leadership was up for re-election and the
results were -
Chair - Mr. Thomas Schneider - Switzerland
Vice Chairs -
- Mr GUO
Feng, China
- Ms Manal ISMAIL, Egypt
- Mr Ghislain DE SALINS,
France
- Ms Milagros CASTAÑÓN
SEOANE, Peru
- Mr Mark CARVELL, United
Kingdom
So our relationship with the GAC has been further
enhanced.
ASO NRO and RIR issues
Well this is in my opinion was a really
interesting shift in attitude. Am summarising but basically
when the RIRs met ICANN staff it was suggested by ICANN staff,
that we should consider if we need to formalise our
relationship with the GAC PSWG. This was again mentioned by
the ICANN Board when we met with them.
The board were also interested in the recent LEA
engagement with the RIRs and they were updated. What they were
really wanting to know was is this a Gobal ASO NRO engagement
or a regional engagement. This was again explained thats its
not a GAC PSWG driven engagement but by regional LEA.
During the PSWG open session - the PSWG reached
out to the ASO to consider becoming an Liaison/observer to the
GAC which would allow the ASO to be a Liaison/observer to the
PSWG.
Of course this caused a lot of discussion amongst
our-selves here at ICANN57 with the general view being
positive. Of course there will now have to be a lot of
conversation and refection by all. There is no time pressure,
in fact, we don’t even have to respond.
Happy to take questions ;-)
Cheers
Dick
Richard Leaning