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color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks for your "short" but nonetheless comprehensive
answer, Stéphane!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=497483911-17112010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I'm looking forward to the discussion tomorrow and the
follow-up in Cartagena.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV> <BR><SPAN lang=de><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Wolf-Ulrich
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Von:</B> Stéphane Van Gelder
[mailto:stephane.vangelder@indom.com] <BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Mittwoch, 17.
November 2010 11:16<BR><B>An:</B> Knoben, Wolf-Ulrich; Council
GNSO<BR><B>Betreff:</B> Re: [council] Questions for chair<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Wolf,
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<DIV>If I may, let me give you a short answer by email and augment that answer
during our call tomorrow, as planned.</DIV>
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<DIV>I think prioritization must be at the center of the next Chair's actions.
We are all stretched very thin at the moment and that is having an adverse
impact on our work and the Council's effectiveness. Staff are at their limit.
But what I am more worried about is volunteer burnout: WE are at our
limit.</DIV>
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<DIV>The current DOI situation is a (small) example of what happens when we no
longer have the time to look at the documents we are asked to ratify in
detail. We miss something. In this case, it's a relatively easy fix (still it
means having to go back to the OSC and the GCOT, doing a motion, etc.). Not so
if we're dealing with a major policy development item...</DIV>
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<DIV>I do not think that the prioritization work that was undertaken a year
ago should be given up. But after a year, we really should have had a solution
by now. Any such initiative needs leadership to see it through. It's just not
good enough to let us waddle through several months of work and get to an end
result that no-one is happy with.</DIV>
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<DIV>If I am elected, prioritization will be a top issue for me because it is
the key to making everything else work. I think the solution can be in part
model based, as long as we don't let the model get too complex. But I
also think it can be part organizational.</DIV>
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<DIV>What I mean by that is the Council Leaders must be up to the task of
suggesting ways forward to the Council. Of course, it is then up to the
Council to accept those suggestions or not. But absent leadership that is able
to make these suggestions, we risk chasing our tails for a long time to come.
So that leadership team needs a dedicated Chair but also two
equally dedicated Vice Chairs. There's just too much to do for the
full leadership team not to be up to par.</DIV>
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<DIV>On VI, I would argue that the Council was not weakened by the decision.
The Board may have been weakened by it... But on our end, the PDP happened by
the book.</DIV>
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<DIV>But let's be honest, the Board was left with little choice but to either
let further delays build in the new gTLD program, or to take a top-down
decision. The question I think we have to ask ourselves is: how did we, as the
initiators of the process, put the Board in this position?</DIV>
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<DIV>Once again, I think in part it comes down to prioritization. When an
issues report on this was requested, the Council was doing what it should.
However, we then decided not to follow the recommendations that came out of
that issues report. That's our prerogative but I think that no matter how we
felt about the issue itself, if we'd had an effective prioritization system in
place then, we might have looked twice at what it meant to launch the largest
working group in recent ICANN history on a 6-month ride towards no
result...</DIV>
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<DIV>So as you can see, prioritization really is a key point for me.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>If we get it wrong, or if we don't elect 3 Council Leaders that are
dedicated to goals that remain realistic as far as volunteer, staff and budget
resources are concerned, that's how we weaken the Council.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>And that's me trying to give you a "short" answer Wolf... ;)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stéphane</DIV>
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<DIV>Le 16 nov. 2010 à 09:06, <<A
href="mailto:KnobenW@telekom.de">KnobenW@telekom.de</A>> <<A
href="mailto:KnobenW@telekom.de">KnobenW@telekom.de</A>> a écrit :</DIV><BR
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class=232514815-15112010>I've 2 questions to both
candidates:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=232514815-15112010>I'd appreciate a statement from regarding
action item 1. from our last call (prioritization, see
attached).</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=232514815-15112010> Which specific efforts do you have in mind
in order to strengthen the council's ability and effectiveness in
organizing its work?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=232514815-15112010>With respect to the fact that the
board recently took decision on VI without having received a
specific council recommendation: which measures do you have in mind to
avoid the council's position in the policy development process becoming
more and more weakened?</SPAN></FONT></DIV></LI></OL><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P><SPAN lang=de><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=232514815-15112010>Thanks and</SPAN> regards</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN lang=de><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Wolf-Ulrich
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<P dir=ltr><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial>Please note the following action items from
our Council meetin</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial>g one week
ago:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P dir=ltr><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><FONT
face=Arial>1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us> <FONT face=Arial>Assuming we dispense with the prioritization
effort, Councilors are encouraged to communicate ideas on the Council
mailing list on how to make decisions regarding whether or not to proceed
on a project; the aim would be to compile a list of factors that can be
used to make choices, and over time develop criteria for choosing projects
and work items.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
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