[Ssr2-review] Next call and misc items

[Geoff Huston]

> On 4 Jul 2018, at 4:17 am, Denise Michel <denisemichel at fb.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Team members and Staff.
>  
> In an effort to keep things moving forward, and as one of the co-chairs prior to the “pause,” I’d like to address some administrative items.  As we’ve noted, with new members on the Team, and as the Team enters its second year, we’ll be doing a fresh call for leadership volunteers (chairs, vice chairs, sub-group/topic leaders…. whatever construct the Team decides to use.).

I wonder about the wisdom of just picking up from last time and resuming the same structures. We have now been provided with Phil and I think we should make extensive use of him in this work. With the exception of Phil and the ICANN staff we are all volunteers and we all have limited time and resources to devote to this activity. I’d like to see us make good use of Phil’s availability to offload much of the work that the volunteer structure has already encountered problems. 


> Until we do, Eric and I have volunteered to continue to facilitate Team calls/meetings. If there are any Team members who would like to help, we’d welcome it. We’re all busy volunteers; if you want something done, or done differently, it’s incumbent upon you to speak-up (and preferably step-up and/or suggest resources we should add to support the Team).
> 
> Open Items:
> 	• What are the questions that we need to/and want to initially address as part of our “un-pausing”
> 		• Matogoro emailed his suggestions
> 		• We briefly discussed the idea of a call with the Board (Board Cmt?) and one with the SO/AC chairs (What would be the objectives? What needs to be done prior to calls?)
> 		• Other? (please share on list and on call)
> 	• At a minimum, to re-start the Team’s work, we need to review and confirm the scope/terms of reference, identify leadership positions/people, ways to reach consensus. (See email from SO/AC chairs)
> 	• Questions around Staff support and resources also are outstanding (See email from SO/AC chairs)
> 	• What do new members need to get up to speed so we can start working? (aside from digest) Briefings on major buckets of work was suggested… anything else?
> 	• Other? (please share on list and on call)
>  

Missing is “what went wrong with the SSR to the extent that the Board felt it necessary to pause this effort in 2017, and what can we learn from this to improve how this review it to function”

I suspect that the basic issues were an ambitious scope of work and insufficient resources from the volunteer group to undertake this work. Perhaps we might like to contemplate a slightly different approach that makes the best use of Phil as a facilitator of the team, and 

I would like to propose that Phil review the Terms of Reference of this review and report back. Is the ToR sufficiently focussed to define the work? Should the ToR be sharpened up to review specific aspects of ICANN’s carriage of security and stability aspects of the DNS?  What is achievable in this area?

I would like to think that once we consider Phil’s review of the ToR we could then look at what aspect of this topic area we would like studied and work with Phil to figure out what studies we would like to commission by third parties, as coordinated by Phil obviously.

thanks,

  Geoff