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style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space">This is a good idea - I think this is a core issue for ICANN Board over next few years as service take-up and development, pace of change and stakeholder scrutiny increase<br/><br/>Cheers<br/><br/>Rosemary<p>Sent from my BlackBerry® from Optus</p><hr/><div><b>From: </b> "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:31:00 +1100</div><div><b>To: </b>William Drake<william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch>; Stéphane Van Gelder<stephane.vangelder@indom.com></div><div><b>Cc: </b><council@gnso.icann.org></div><div><b>Subject: </b>RE: [council] 2nd topic for joint Board/GNSO dinner</div><div><br/></div>
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the volunteer model in the long term?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> William Drake
[mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday,
February 20, 2010 6:38 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Stéphane Van Gelder<BR><B>Cc:</B>
Gomes, Chuck; council@gnso.icann.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [council] 2nd
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<DIV></DIV>I understood Stéphane's suggestion to be for a sort of
meta-reflection on the whole model rather than another discussion of
prioritization. Stated at this level of abstraction, one can imagine
ways in which it could be a useful and illuminating dialogue but also ways in
which it could be unproductive. Maybe it would help to specify the
possible content a little more?
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<DIV>I'm inclined to think it's worth doing but would like more sense of the
likely direction.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV>Bill<BR>
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<DIV>On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:</DIV><BR
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know what you mean, but I don't see this as solely a prioritization problem.
Sure that will help, but even if we do prioritize, we're still all spending
most of our time working for ICANN and that is looking like it will only get
worse. How long can the organisation hold if that's the case?
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<DIV>If the question is too contentious, let's leave it aside. But in that
case, we still need to come up with a second topic.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stéphane<BR><BR>
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<P><FONT size=2>If others want this topic, that is fine. But I am
not sure it is one well suited for the Board because it is one that we
need to work and we are. <BR><BR>Chuck<BR><BR><BR>----- Original
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Fri Feb 19 07:40:13 2010<BR>Subject: [council] 2nd topic for joint
Board/GNSO dinner<BR><BR><BR>I would like to propose a 2nd topic for the
Board dinner (I believe the custom initiated by Avri was to have 2
topics).<BR><BR>As we saw yesterday from our discussions during the
Council meeting, there is a danger of staff being overloaded by the
current workload. And as I pointed out, my worry is more for us volunteers
that have to balance an extremely demanding ICANN workload, for which we
are neither paid nor compensated in any way, with our real lives and jobs.
So I guess there comes a point where the question must be asked: is a
system based on so much volunteer involvement viable in the long run, and
if we want to keep the system as is (with the obvious benefits of being
truly multi stakeholder), what solutions are there to make it viable (for
example, more staff as Mike suggested
yesterday)?<BR><BR>Thoughts?<BR><BR>Stéphane<BR></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>