[Internal-cg] ICG Secretariat Round #2

[Russ Mundy]

I fully support this approach for the Secretariat.  Russ

On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:38 AM, James M. Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com> wrote:

> Just want to lend my support for the views expressed by Martin, Jon, Adiel
> and Patrik.
> 
> Thanks‹
> 
> J.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/14/14, 8:08 , "Martin Boyle" <Martin.Boyle at nominet.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Adiel for this:  I have no problems with the revised text and am
>> grateful to you for picking up my points of concern.
>> 
>> I share Jon & Patrik's views on the contracting point.  "It is the
>> control over the secretariat and its actions that is the important thing"
>> and "As long as the function reports directly to the ICG as Theresa
>> suggested," I'd be happy to use ICANN's good offices as contracting
>> agency.  As I've flagged before, I am not convinced that any other
>> obvious intermediary contracting party would offer anything additional
>> and could bring a mass of other problems.  (I use the word intermediary
>> as, if I understand correctly, the money comes from ICANN and the service
>> is entirely to the ICG.)
>> 
>> Thanks again Adiel
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jon Nevett [mailto:jon at donuts.co]
>> Sent: 14 August 2014 13:56
>> To: Adiel Akplogan
>> Cc: Martin Boyle; ICG
>> Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] ICG Secretariat Round #2
>> 
>> Adiel:
>> 
>> FWIW I support using ICANN as the independent contracting entity for the
>> secretariat per Theresa's email.  It seems nonsensical to me that we use
>> ICANN to do certain administrative tasks, such as securing meeting rooms,
>> translation services, travel support, etc., but we don't want to use
>> ICANN as the contracting entity for the secretariat.  As long as the
>> function reports directly to the ICG as Theresa suggested, I support
>> going in that direction.  If we don't use ICANN, it would increase
>> dramatically the amount of time and effort on us to fill the role, as
>> well as prolong the time we would be without a secretariat.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Adiel Akplogan <adiel at afrinic.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I have uploaded an updated version of the secretariat document. There
>>> is still one fundamental question we have to clearly answer:
>>> 
>>> - Are we still going to contract the secretariat via an Independent
>>> Organisation (considering  the opinion shared by Theresa)?
>>> 
>>> If yes, who will that be? Will we need an RFP to select the third party
>>> contractor? How  will we select that such entity that will be
>>> sufficiently independent for every one?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> - a.
>>> 
>>> On Aug 7, 2014, at 15:50 PM, Martin Boyle <Martin.Boyle at nominet.org.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Adiel, that all looks fine.
>>>> 
>>>> My note on Chairs as opposed to Chair would be to allow whatever
>>>> combination of Chair + co-/vice-chairs we eventually agree to, simply
>>>> avoiding the bottleneck of a single point of contact.  But I'm fairly
>>>> relaxed.
>>>> 
>>>> Narelle's language looks generally in the right direction.  I prefer
>>>> the idea of clear separation of functions so that the Secretariat is
>>>> not being distracted by fielding administrative tasks better performed
>>>> by the ICANN team.
>>>> 
>>>>>> - Co-ordinate the arrangement of face to face meeting venues along
>>>>>> with related logistics  with ICANN and other third parties where
>>>>>> appropriate
>>>> 
>>>> This looks fine, but could we put the " where appropriate" at the
>>>> start of the sentence?  Ie, "Where appropriate, coordinate the
>>>> arrangement ... and other third parties?
>>>> 
>>>>>> - Arrange ICG member travel, as and when required in conjunction
>>>>>> with ICANN
>>>> 
>>>> Can't this just be excluded as it is entirely the role of the ICANN
>>>> team?
>>>> 
>>>>>> - Liaise with ICANN for administrative matters as required by the
>>>>>> ICG and Chair
>>>> 
>>>> Liaising is nice wording!
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> 
>>>> Martin
>>>> 
>>>> 
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