[Internal-cg] ICG Secretariat Round #2

[joseph alhadeff]

Agree.

Joe
On 8/14/2014 9:39 PM, Drazek, Keith wrote:
> +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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