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The GAC provides advice to the ICANN Board on policy matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN’s policies and various laws, international agreements and public policy objectives. GAC Advice is communicated to the ICANN Board through either a Communique or a formal piece of Correspondence.

2016-11-08 Enhancement of mutual cooperation and understanding

GAC Advice

Reference No. :

2016-11-08 Enhancement of mutual cooperation and understanding

First Delivered 08 Nov 2016 via :

ICANN57 Hyderabad Communique

Consenus:

Consensus met

2016-11-08 Enhancement of mutual cooperation and understanding

The GAC advises the ICANN Board to:

  1. Engage in enhanced and more regular communication with the GAC and Supporting Organisations with a view to fostering better mutual understanding of each others’ roles and procedures in the ICANN framework
  2. Engage in enhanced and more regular communication with the GAC with a view to foster mutual understanding of the nature and purposes of the GAC’s advice on issues of public policy and related to international and national law, and also with a view to better understand the GAC’s expectations and the Boards’ deliberations related to the implementation of GAC advice.
  3. Make it a regular practice to schedule a post-Communique Board-GAC meeting to ensure mutual understanding of its provisions, either at the relevant ICANN meeting, or in a call within four weeks of a Communiqué being issued.
  4. Consider publicly posting draft resolutions in advance of Board Meetings.

Rationale

At the first post-Communiqué conference call between the Board and the GAC on 20 July 2016, the GAC realized that such interaction contributes to a shared understanding of the provisions of the advice issued. Such enhanced interaction seemed to assist the Board to better understand the GAC’s intentions and expectations when issuing advice, and helped the GAC to better understand the Boards’ deliberations when analysing and processing GAC advice.

In addition, and in the interest of transparency, the GAC has the view that it may be useful for effective interaction between stakeholders if the content of the Board’s draft resolutions were made available before their adoption.