[council] TOPICS - Agenda Board meeting with GNSO Council - Sunday March 13, 4pm 5:30 pm

[William Drake]

Hi,

I think the experience over the past couple years with board, GAC et al meetings has been that multi-topic agendas don't work well, so I agree with Carlos that it'd be preferable to do one topic if possible.

I agree with Jeff that Brussels raised questions about the handling of possible inconsistencies between GNSO positions (and community positions more generally) and any Board-GAC compromises.  After the meeting I chatted with a couple boardies who were wondering aloud how should they loop back through the community to make sure everyone's still on board, do we do a public comment period, add time to the public forum, or what…Without wanting to add too much complexity to the process or too tightly tie the board's hands, one would think it'd be good to at least talk this through with them.  To me this is pressing and hefty enough to fill a meeting.

As to the others, while Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation merits focused attention, one would think more prior discussion of this in Council would be needed to make it a really productive discussion.  It's sort of amorphous now and SGs may have rather different perspectives that need some initial converging.  As to CWG, I've yet to hear a compelling argument that there's really a big problem regarding Board perceptions of their outputs, and in any event the Council's little group on this is just starting up, got a listserv a couple days ago.  So that too one would think could bake a little more before we take it to them.

Best,

Bill



On Mar 4, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Olga Cavalli wrote:

> Dear Council Members,
> 
> This is the list of topics proposed for the Board/GNSO meeting:
> 
> - Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation: context of the Board resolution
> 
> - CWGs and how the Board views them
> 
> - New TLDs. Role of the GNSO community in addressing items that come out of the GAC/BD discussions on new gTLDs
> 
> 
> Please let me know if I have forgotten something or if I have captured well your ideas.
> 
> Best regards
> Olga
>