[NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO

[matthew shears]

Hi - inline


On 07/02/2017 10:19, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 21:18, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu 
>> <mailto:milton at gatech.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Farzaneh:
>> Your primary goal in this talk should be to make sure the new CEO 
>> understands who and what NCUC is, to solicit information from him 
>> about what attitudes (prejudices?) and perceptions he has about us, 
>> correcting any misperceptions he might have. So I would come up with 
>> some basic talking points about that. You need to make it clear why 
>> it is absolutely essential that the GNSO continue to be structured in 
>> a way that balances commercial and noncommercial and contracted and 
>> non-contracted parties, and why board and GAC interference with GNSO 
>> consensus policies after the fact is a bad thing.
+ 100
>
> Agree.  While I think he has some sense of what we’re about already, 
> given prior discussions, it’d be good to lock it the desired framing. 
>  And to invite him to Constituency Day.
>> As a secondary priority, you might discuss the prohibition on content 
>> regulation and how we think the use of PICs might circumvent that.
Agree
>> You could emphasize our belief that in the new accountability 
>> arrangements, ACs such as ALAC were given too much power relative to 
>> the much larger and more diverse set of stakeholders in the GNSO, and 
>> how a ALAC/GAC alliance in certain bylaw disputes might thwart 
>> attempts to keep ICANN constrained within its mission.
>
> Unless my memory is foggy this morning we were not in uniform 
> agreement on these points, so if there’s time to get into them it 
> maybe qualified them as “some members are concerned that..”.

Also, and while I largely agree with this, what is the point of bringing 
this up?  Are we asking for some review of the Accountability 
mechanisms?  Are we asking him  to keep an eye on their possible 
collusion?   If I were Goran I would say - and so what do you think 
should be done about this?

Agree with Bill's qualification.

Matthew

>
> Best
>
> Bill
>>
>> *From:*Ncuc-discuss [mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org]*On 
>> Behalf Of*farzaneh badii
>> *Sent:*Monday, February 6, 2017 7:25 AM
>> *To:*NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org 
>> <mailto:ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>>
>> *Subject:*[NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO
>> Dear NCUC members,
>> I will have a 1:1 meeting with the ICANN CEO next week. If you would 
>> like me to discuss a topic with him, please share it on this list by 
>> 10 Feb. Since this is a 30 minute talk I cannot cover everything but 
>> I will try my best to at least mention some of the suggested topic 
>> briefly.
>> Best
>> Farzaneh
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