Fwd: Agenda points for the meeting of the ICANN Board with the NCSG

[Mary.Wong at LAW.UNH.EDU]

Avri and everyone,
 
It's great that Steve responded so quickly; I wonder if the following suggestion might help the Board and us manage the one hour better:
 
Since the list of topics was discussed during the policy call last week, a couple of things have happened that might help us whittle down the list: first, the issue of constituency relations has separately been formally brought to the Board by NPOC leadership, in response to which several members of the NCSG EC have sent a letter (the one circulated on this listserv). Spending 10-15 minutes on this topic this week is unlikely to be helpful to the Board or elicit further information that has not already been put forward to them.
 
Secondly, there's now a 1.5 hour session set aside during the Dakar meeting to discuss the CEO succession issue (on Monday at 3 p.m.). Would it make sense for us to just put a placeholder on the topic for the meeting with the Board, depending on what comes out on Monday, i.e. we may not need to have that discussion if the Monday session sufficiently covers our concerns?
 
Cheers
Mary


 
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From: Avri Doria <avri at ACM.ORG>
To:<NCSG-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu>
Date: 10/22/2011 8:36 AM
Subject: [NCSG-Discuss] Fwd: Agenda points for the meeting of the ICANN Board with the NCSG


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From: Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com>
Subject: Re: Agenda points for the meeting of the ICANN Board with the NCSG
Date: 22 October 2011 12:26:28 GMT
To: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
Cc: Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com>, Diane Schroeder <diane.schroeder at icann.org>, NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU, Icann-board ICANN <icann-board at icann.org>

Avri, et al,

The topics and the order are fine.

We have only one hour, and other meetings are scheduled before and after.  I know it's difficult to have substantive discussion within such time constraints.  Let me make a request and a suggestion.

Request

Please send us the opening statement, as compactly as possible, for each of the four topics.  That will allow us to jump in and make sure we understand the issue and any controversial elements.

Suggestion


If you want to allocated unequal amounts of time to these topics, please suggest times for each topic.  Otherwise, I'll assume 15 minutes for each topic.

I think the important goal is to make sure we hear your concerns and views.  Reaching resolution of these is probably not within reach during this meeting, and it would probably be inappropriate for us to do so even if there were time.You will find the Board is genuinely interested and will listen intently and respectfully.  I know there is a lot of heat associated with some -- perhaps all -- of these topics.  Let me urge terse, dispassionate presentation and discussion.

Thanks,

Steve







On Oct 22, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Avri Doria wrote:



Dear Steve and Diane,

Four topics were discussed by the NCSG as agenda items for the NCSG meeting with the Board.  We attempted to pare it down to 3 items, but were unable to come to consensus on which one to drop.  Hence all four items are being offered as topics for this meeting.

In listing the topics, and given some spirited conversation on these items, they are presented in pseudo-random order.  This order was determined by use of the RFC3797 process with the number of listed ICANN registrations at the time of running (22 Oct 2011, 11:20 GMT = 1070) as the single seed. The original published order is the one listed in the agenda of the last NCSG meeting, which can be found at: <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Agenda111018>

The four items in Pseudo-random order are:

1. Constituency Relations within the NCSG

2. The need for some coherent thinking/process about ICANN relations with developing country governments and stakeholders

3. JAS and plans for the use of TLD-string auction proceeds

4. The community's role in CEO search


Best Regards,

Avri 
Interim NCSG Chair



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