[council] FW: Update on SO/AC Leaders Call with Goran

[Drazek, Keith]

Hi all,



Please see below for my notes on last week's SO/AC Leaders call with Goran. I have sent these to the Chairs of the SGs and Cs.



Best,

Keith



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Subject: Update on SO/AC Leaders Call with Goran



Hello GNSO Stakeholder Group and Constituency Chairs,



Last week, the SO/AC Leaders had a call with Goran to discuss work prioritization and impact of COVID-19 on ICANN and the community. Here are my summary notes:



1.      Discussion focused on the impact of COVID-19 on ICANN, the community, work prioritization and meeting planning.
2.      ICANN 68 almost certainly will be a remote engagement, no F2F. I expect we'll receive formal notice soon.
3.      ICANN Org is developing an "engagement paper" to be shared with the SO/AC leaders, timing TBD.
4.      The engagement paper will lay out how ICANN will transition to a slower pace of work and planning for future meetings.
5.      They are looking at a 6-month rolling window of planning and likely no F2F meetings of any kind before September.
6.      Goran said they are assessing the prioritization level of all ICANN work and bucketizing them, into 5 categories:

   a.   Hot Topics such as .com agreement, .org transfer, fighting DNS abuse
   b.   Bylaws Requirements such as budget, NomCom, ATRT3
   c.   Policy work such as GNSO PDPs
   d.   ICANN's technical coordination and obligations, including work with Verisign on RZM functions, etc.
   e.   "the rest"

7.      Goran said he believes community availability is currently at 70% and could potentially decrease as members are impacted by COVID-19.
8.      Goran said multiple times he's concerned about capture if key parts of the community are unable to participate effectively.
9.      Specific questions were raised about GNSO policy development work, and the need to coordinate prioritization with other parts of the community.
10.     We will have a follow-up call at some point to discuss cross-community prioritization in the face of COVID-19. I noted the SO/AC discussions we had in January have been overtaken by events, so we need to look at it again.
11.     Goran said no one from ICANN Org or Board has been infected at this time.
12.     He called on everyone to prioritize their safety and to "be kind" to one another.



Please let me know if you have any questions. When we see the 'engagement paper' I'll be sure to circulate it for your review and input.



Best,

Keith



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