[council] FW: CEO/Community Leaders Conference Call - 18 Feb 2014
Avri Doria
avri at acm.org
Wed Feb 19 12:01:23 UTC 2014
Hi,
Obviously as a member of the ATRT2 that was, I think that implementing
it is a critical opportunity and necessity.
More than that, the AOC reviews are, in my view, a brilliant experiment
in bottom-up oversight. But this will only work if it is accepted as
oversight by the Board and the senior management of ICANN, whatever the
lawyers might say about a cooperate board accepting no master other than
the State. I also think that this year is the best, and possibly last
chance, to show the world that indeed ICANN has oversight possibilities
other than one-to-many governments.
avri
On 19-Feb-14 12:28, Maria Farrell wrote:
> Thanks very much for the update, Jonathan.
>
> I'm especially happy that we are focusing on the 'day job' and that
> ATRT2 is a priority. Implementing it properly will be critical.
>
> Maria
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> On 19 February 2014 10:28, Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson at afilias.info
> <mailto:jrobinson at afilias.info>> wrote:
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> All,____
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> Yesterday, ICANN senior staff held a second CEO / Community Leaders
> Conference Call. As I understand it, this is intended to be a
> regular briefing and interaction session which assists in bridging
> the (significant) time gap between ICANN meetings. Especially in
> the context of such significant activity.____
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> A recording of the call will be circulated shortly but I thought it
> may be helpful if I shared a couple of highlights that I picked up
> personally.____
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> In particular 3 key areas were raised by Fadi Chehade as follows:____
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> __1.__Introduction of major themes for the ICANN Singapore Meeting____
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> __2.__Encourage feedback and comments on Strategic Panel
> suggestions/recommendations____
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> __3.__An update on the Recent Board Workshop ____
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> Singapore Themes:____
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> __a.__Carry strategic planning through to final stages. N.B. The
> issuing of strategic panels reports will occur prior to the meeting.
> All will be out by this weekend. It is very important that ICANN
> hears from us.
> N.B. These are recommendations for discussion & debate.____
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> __b.__Recognise and ATRT2 outputs. We need to embrace these and
> recognise how they need to be acted on.____
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> __c.__ICANN globalisation area. There is broad momentum gathering
> behind this and we will shortly see an ICANN board resolution from
> 18 February regarding ICANN globalisation____
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> My personal take on this is positive i.e. that ICANN Singapore will
> not be dominated solely by the Internet Governance agenda.
> Important as this topic is, we have plenty to think about and do as
> we get on with the “day job” at ICANN. Encouragingly, this balance
> is also consistent with the weighting that the GNSO Council has been
> placing on these areas (where appropriate to our remit) i.e. with a
> relatively even balance between a, b & c above.____
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> Fadi also touched on budgeting and expenses before handing over to
> Xavier (ICANN’s CFO) to discuss these in more detail. A key point
> Fadi made was his intention to:____
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> __A.__Manage operations within the budget and ____
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> __B.__Recognise that the rate of expenditure _growth_ needs to slow
> down from circa 20% per annum to a growth rate of high teens next
> year and then low teens the following year.____
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> Fadi & Xavier’s input were followed by Q&A through both audio and
> chat and for those of you who would like to know and understand
> more, this should all be public soon.____
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> I trust that this is helpful and/or insightful.____
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> Jonathan____
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