[council] RE: GNSO Council Meeting with ICANN Board

[John Berard]

Where in this is our "ask" that the Board accommodate community input in performance reviews of the CEO and Board?

Berard

On Mar 22, 2014 6:58 PM, Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson at afilias.info> wrote:
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> All, 
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> Following up on below and our preparatory session yesterday, I have notes on 
> the following questions / discussion points 
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> I feel we could do with a little more substance / clarity here. 
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> Please can you give your input / comments on list asap.  
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> -          Add to 
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> -          Remove from 
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> -          Modify 
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> -          Volunteer / Commit to lead 
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> We may get to discuss more at lunch. 
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> Jonathan 
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> Overarching Issues / Challenges (Jonathan, A.N. Other?) 
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> -          Volume of work and pace of change 
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> -          Concerns over dominance of top-down / executive & board led 
> initiatives 
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> -          Guarantee of the preservation of bottom-up and consensus based 
> multi-stakeholder system 
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> Specific Questions & Issues 
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> -          IGO / INGO Issue (Thomas) 
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> o   Board commitment to bottom-up processes (PDP) 
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> o   Specific issues 
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> -          Current view of board of the success (or not) of the new gTLD 
> programme (Introduced by?) 
> (Follow-on: How is the board planning to evaluate success?).  
> Examples: 
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> o   Name collisions. GEO TLDs. Reservation list (Who?) 
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> o   RAA. Data retention requirements (James +1)(Ching +1) 
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> o   Universal acceptance? IOS 7 (Ching +1) 
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> -          What is the decision making process leading to reconciling GAC 
> advice / GNSO policy? (John) 
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> -          A number of SSAC reports seem to be backlogged (Mikey) 
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> o   What is the Board's approach to addressing SSR backlog? 
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> -          Strategy Panels (Maria / James) 
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> o   N.B. Were these adequately covered yesterday with Fadi? 
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> From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jonathan.robinson at ipracon.com] 
> Sent: 21 March 2014 11:22 
> To: council at gnso.icann.org 
> Subject: GNSO Council Meeting with ICANN Board 
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> All, 
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> I have spoken with Steve Crocker and out of that conversation, a proposed 
> structure of our 90 minutes meeting with the board has emerged (see below). 
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> Note that there is specific scope for raising key questions / issues with 
> the board and the structure anticipates some of these. 
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> I propose to deliver the GNSO Council update using a few slides if 
> necessary. 
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> Any thoughts or comments on fleshing this out are welcome, particularly on 
> "specific questions" and "current challenges / issues". 
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> Thanks, 
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> Jonathan 
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> GNSO Council 
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> *         GNSO Council update to ICANN Board (10 mins) 
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> o   Brief description of GNSO Council and GNSO process improvements.  
> Focus on reality v. possible perception.  
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> o   Specific highlight of GAC / GNSO work on early GAC engagement in the 
> policy process. 
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> *         Specific questions the GNSO Council has for the ICANN Board, i.e. 
> the GNSO Council's "asks" if not covered elsewhere on agenda (15 mins) 
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> *         Highlight current challenges GNSO is currently dealing with. 
> This might include the pace of change, concerns about top-down vs bottom up, 
> etc. (15 mins) 
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> ICANN Board 
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> *         ICANN Board update on how the Board is working, where our focus 
> is, etc.  
> Division of labor and coordination with the CEO. (10 mins) 
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> *         Clarification about the role, purpose and operation of the new 
> Board Advisory Committees. (15 mins) 
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> *         ICANN Board's view of ICANN Globalization, IANA Globalization and 
> general Internet Governance. (20 mins) 
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