Access to board briefing materials

William Drake william.drake at GRADUATEINSTITUTE.CH
Fri Oct 29 10:09:52 CEST 2010


Perhaps of wider interest…if any members have suggestions etc please let us know...

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> From: William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>
> Date: October 29, 2010 9:44:52 AM GMT+02:00
> To: "Dammak, Rafik" <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>, "Cavalli, Olga" <olgacavalli at gmail.com>, "Greenberg, Alan" <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>, Zahid Jamil <zahid at jamilandjamil.com>, "Doria, Avri" <avri at acm.org>
> Subject: Access to board briefing materials
> 
> Morning folks
> 
> Hope you have all recovered from our grand quest into the land of voting procedures et al.  Who knew that proxies were so rich with legal and ontological conundrums? :-)
> 
> Just saw Bruce's message, below, which pinged my memory.  You may recall on the 7 Oct council call I argued for writing with ALAC to request staff preparatory materials from the board meetings and got push back on the grounds that, allegedly like cross community working groups, this would somehow infringe on the council's sovereignty and establish the bad precedent of cooperating with others.  So the compromise was that council would make the same request as ALAC but on its own letterhead, as it were.  To that end, we were supposed to pull together a group that would identify what kinds of materials we think should be routinely shared, as reflected in the minutes:
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> http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-council-07oct10-en.htm
> 
> Referring to message from Cheryl Langdon-Orr on a request from the ALAC to request information on the rationale for the Board decisions and access to briefing materials available at the Board Retreat, the Council agreed upon the following action items:
> 
> Action Items:
> 
> 	• The following Councillors volunteered to 1) develop a list of material from the retreat that the GNSO requests be publicly and 2) submit the list to the Council mailing list for review.
> Volunteers: Rafik Dammak, Bill Drake, Olga Cavalli, Alan Greenberg and Zahid Jamil. 
> The Chair will submit the list to the Board.
> 	• Chuck Gomes will communicate with Cheryl Langdon Orr that the GNSO will request the Board material independently and that it may be more effective if it comes independently from the different Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees.
> 
> ————————
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> I've added Avri to the list as she's expressed interest in the matter and made the one concrete suggestion I've heard, which I'm not remembering properly—was it the "board book," whatever that is?
> 
> Anyway, Bruce's message below. What they've given us is just a big unlabeled data dump, bit hard to dig through without a miner's hat.
> 
> So what are we looking for?  Suggestions?
> 
> Bill
> 
> PS: Don't know if you ever read Kieren's blog but there was a somewhat ironic piece from the Plenipotentiary last week about how the ITU secretariat's approach to members  on such things compares favorably…
> 
> 
> 
>> From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
>> Date: October 29, 2010 5:18:31 AM GMT+02:00
>> To: "Council GNSO" <council at gnso.icann.org>
>> Subject: [council] ICANN Board briefing materials for the Trondheim meeting - 24/25 September 2010
>> 
>> 
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> The ICANN staff have published some of the briefing materials provided
>> to the Board for the Trondheim meeting on 24-25 September 2010.
>> 
>> See:
>> 
>> http://www.icann.org/en/minutes
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Bruce Tonkin
> 
> 
> 
> 

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William J. Drake
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
 Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
www.williamdrake.org
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