[Rt4-whois] Planning our next steps

Dr. Sarmad Hussain sarmad at cantab.net
Fri Nov 12 10:28:00 UTC 2010


Dear Emily and All,


Thanks.  It would be great if we can collate and post links to all the
relevant documents for WHOIS on the wiki as well, as a reference point on
various issues for our discussions.    

 

Regards,
Sarmad

 

From: rt4-whois-bounces at icann.org [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces at icann.org] On
Behalf Of Emily Taylor
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 2:44 PM
To: rt4-whois at icann.org
Subject: [Rt4-whois] Planning our next steps

 

Dear All

 

Thanks for all your contributions to the list over the past day or so. 

 

 

Scope and Draft Report outline

I have uploaded the draft Scope and Report outline documents which our small
group presented to the Team in our last call.

During our discussions we agreed that it is more appropriate for all Team
members to input into these drafts.  Kathy suggested that we break into
small groups and review the documents.  However, I'm not sure that we agreed
the composition of the small groups (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong
on this!!), so in the meantime, please can everyone comment individually.
If we're unable to sign them off at our next call, then we'll go for the
small groups approach.

 

Using the Wiki

Personally, I've never used a Wiki in this way before, and I like it!  This
is going to make our life much easier as we work on shared documents.

 

 

Meetings

Sharon has raised the issue of planning ahead, and her point is well made.
Many of the team have huge demands on their diary, and I would like to make
some straw man proposals as follows:

 

Cartagena

We have agreed to a 120 minute meeting, with remote participation, and
encourage those present in Cartagena to spend time getting to know each
other.

As I will not be present in Cartagena, I would like Kathy as Vice Chair to
run that session please.

 

London

Please would the staff run a doodle on London meeting dates.  Bill has
proposed  18-20th as a starting point.

 

I propose that we have a day and a half for our substantive session.  We
should aim to arrive the night before for an informal dinner, and social
session.  I would also like to include a couple of speaking slots plus Q&A
from external stakeholders.

 

I suggest the following items to be covered at our first full meeting, in
London 

 

-  Review stakeholder identification work (or start it if it hasn't been
done) - this can include the questions raised on our last call, like "what
is meant by law enforcement, or consumer trust" from a global perspective.

 

-  Run a brainstorming session on the legitimate interests of each
stakeholder group.

 

- What is ICANN's policy at the moment?  Would any member of the Team be in
a position to do a presentation on this?  Or should we invite someone from
the staff to cover this point?

 

- Reviewing our Scope, what don't we know, and what information do we need?
How do we get it, and do we need independent assistance?

 

- Planning our outreach:  who do we need to speak to within the ICANN
Community?  Can we also think about who *outside* the community needs to
give input?  How do we structure our outreach. I'd like to get as many of
the Team involved in reaching back to their sponsoring communities
throughout our work.

 

I'd also like to try and agree a work schedule and allocate some roles/small
groups on particular issues.  I think it would work best if we identify
someone within the team who would be willing to draw up a straw man GANTT or
similar rather than "blue sky".

 

While we are in Europe, and (I hope) at Sharon's premises, perhaps we could
invite a representative of European law enforcement, and a data protection
authority (eg Art 29 group) as we discussed on our last call,  to give us
their views on what their Whois needs are.  So, we could aim for 2
presentations plus Q&A sessions, to help inform ourselves.  Please can I
have your thoughts on this, and any suggestions for speakers. 

 

 

Attendance at San Francisco and other ICANN meetings

 

I would welcome the Team's thoughts on this.  I'd like to propose the
following format for all ICANN meetings that time place during our mandate

 

- We all aim to have a 1.5 day Team meeting

- In addition, we should use ICANN meetings for outreach to:

            - the Supporting Organisations and Advisory Committees

            - the Board

            - any local stakeholder groups who are relevant to our task

 

I would like to use the outreach sessions to build liaison with the relevant
SO/ACs, inform them about how and what we're doing, ask them what they think
we should be doing, and how they can contribute to our task.   Would it be
possible for those who have been put forward by different SO/ACs to
accompany the Chair/Vice Chair to those meetings and help lead the
discussions?

 

 

Budget

In preparation for our next call, please can we all give some thought to the
London agenda, and particularly whether or not this group will need to
commission outside research, as the ATRT has done.  If so, then we need to
give the Board a heads up as soon as possible, and prepare a revised budget.
Bill has kindly posted the budget up on the Wiki, so take a look in
preparation for our next call.

 

Chair and staff

I see part of the Chair's role to liaise with staff on behalf of this Team,
if any of you have special requests or issues.  This is not to block your
direct contact with staff, but to offer myself as a resource to you if you
feel that would be helpful.

 

Getting to know you

I would really appreciate having a call with each of you over the coming
weeks, so get to know you a bit, understand your background beyond what's up
there on the site, your views on what this Team should be covering, and
understand which areas you feel you can particularly contribute to our
achieving our objectives.  Please can I ask the staff to set up half hour
calls with me and each of you.  Alice - I'll let you have my availability
separately.

 

Our next call

I propose that in our next call we focus on:

 

- broad brush stakeholder identification, from a global perspective

- identifying what, if any, external resources we need.

 

Please let me have your thoughts on these proposals, and I look forward to
our next call.

 

Best,

 

Emily

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Governance)

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