[Internal-cg] ICG Secretariat Round #2

[Drazek, Keith]

+1 on this proposal for securing Secretariat functions.

Thanks,
Keith Drazek

On Aug 14, 2014, at 7:59 PM, "Russ Mundy" <mundy at tislabs.com> wrote:

> I fully support this approach for the Secretariat.  Russ
> 
> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:38 AM, James M. Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just want to lend my support for the views expressed by Martin, Jon, Adiel
>> and Patrik.
>> 
>> Thanks‹
>> 
>> J.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/14/14, 8:08 , "Martin Boyle" <Martin.Boyle at nominet.org.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Adiel for this:  I have no problems with the revised text and am
>>> grateful to you for picking up my points of concern.
>>> 
>>> I share Jon & Patrik's views on the contracting point.  "It is the
>>> control over the secretariat and its actions that is the important thing"
>>> and "As long as the function reports directly to the ICG as Theresa
>>> suggested," I'd be happy to use ICANN's good offices as contracting
>>> agency.  As I've flagged before, I am not convinced that any other
>>> obvious intermediary contracting party would offer anything additional
>>> and could bring a mass of other problems.  (I use the word intermediary
>>> as, if I understand correctly, the money comes from ICANN and the service
>>> is entirely to the ICG.)
>>> 
>>> Thanks again Adiel
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jon Nevett [mailto:jon at donuts.co]
>>> Sent: 14 August 2014 13:56
>>> To: Adiel Akplogan
>>> Cc: Martin Boyle; ICG
>>> Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] ICG Secretariat Round #2
>>> 
>>> Adiel:
>>> 
>>> FWIW I support using ICANN as the independent contracting entity for the
>>> secretariat per Theresa's email.  It seems nonsensical to me that we use
>>> ICANN to do certain administrative tasks, such as securing meeting rooms,
>>> translation services, travel support, etc., but we don't want to use
>>> ICANN as the contracting entity for the secretariat.  As long as the
>>> function reports directly to the ICG as Theresa suggested, I support
>>> going in that direction.  If we don't use ICANN, it would increase
>>> dramatically the amount of time and effort on us to fill the role, as
>>> well as prolong the time we would be without a secretariat.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Adiel Akplogan <adiel at afrinic.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> I have uploaded an updated version of the secretariat document. There
>>>> is still one fundamental question we have to clearly answer:
>>>> 
>>>> - Are we still going to contract the secretariat via an Independent
>>>> Organisation (considering  the opinion shared by Theresa)?
>>>> 
>>>> If yes, who will that be? Will we need an RFP to select the third party
>>>> contractor? How  will we select that such entity that will be
>>>> sufficiently independent for every one?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> - a.
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 7, 2014, at 15:50 PM, Martin Boyle <Martin.Boyle at nominet.org.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks Adiel, that all looks fine.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My note on Chairs as opposed to Chair would be to allow whatever
>>>>> combination of Chair + co-/vice-chairs we eventually agree to, simply
>>>>> avoiding the bottleneck of a single point of contact.  But I'm fairly
>>>>> relaxed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Narelle's language looks generally in the right direction.  I prefer
>>>>> the idea of clear separation of functions so that the Secretariat is
>>>>> not being distracted by fielding administrative tasks better performed
>>>>> by the ICANN team.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - Co-ordinate the arrangement of face to face meeting venues along
>>>>>>> with related logistics  with ICANN and other third parties where
>>>>>>> appropriate
>>>>> 
>>>>> This looks fine, but could we put the " where appropriate" at the
>>>>> start of the sentence?  Ie, "Where appropriate, coordinate the
>>>>> arrangement ... and other third parties?
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - Arrange ICG member travel, as and when required in conjunction
>>>>>>> with ICANN
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can't this just be excluded as it is entirely the role of the ICANN
>>>>> team?
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - Liaise with ICANN for administrative matters as required by the
>>>>>>> ICG and Chair
>>>>> 
>>>>> Liaising is nice wording!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> 
>>>>> Martin
>>>> 
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