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13 October 2014

Cross Community Working Groups

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Purpose

•Used to discuss and develop recommendations on issues that:o Cut across SO/ACs

o Not the sole responsibility of one SO/AC

o Not in scope for SO policy development

•Desire for two or more SO/ACs to work together on the issue

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Principles

•Identical charter adopted by SO/ACs

•Chartering organizations appoint members, but open to everyone interested to participate at equal footing

•Meaningful opportunities for public comment and engagement of others

•Endorsement of final report/final output of the CWG by the chartering organizations before it is submitted to the ICANN Board

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Charter

To ensure common understanding of scope and working methods, a charter is developed that typically contains: o Purpose/Problem statement, goals & objectives and scope

o Deliverables, timeframes & reporting (Work Plan)

o Membership, staffing and organization

o Rules of engagement, including decision-making methodologies, modification of the charter

o Process for adoption of output, problem/issue escalation & resolution processes in the effort

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Charter Development & Adoption

•Developed by a Drafting Team with a small number of representatives from interested SO/ACs

•Following completion, draft charter sent back to SO/ACs for adoption, according to respective processes

•Following adoption, call for volunteers to join CWG

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Examples of recent CWGs

•IANA Stewardship Transition CWG

•CWG on Use of Country/Territory Names as TLDs

•CWG for framework of CWG principles

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Questions?