[NCUC-DISCUSS] Intersessional meeting

Sun Jul 23 15:26:11 CEST 2017

I would like to second Ayden's excellent comments.

Also see inline.

On 23/07/2017 19:19, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
> Hi Farzaneh,
>
> Thank you for inviting our feedback on the value of the intersessional.
>
> I had the good fortune of participating in this year's intersessional 
> in Reykjavík and found it to be an effective forum for fostering 
> inter-NCPH understanding. Remote participation is not yet a substitute 
> for face-to-face meetings like this one where the focus is less about 
> the formal agenda and more about understanding the perspectives of 
> others who we do not ordinarily have significant interaction with. I 
> thought that the intersessional's format, complete with breakout 
> sessions and frequent interventions during the plenaries, really 
> worked. For this reason, I strongly support our continued 
> participation in this forum.
Indeed, I would say that it is critical to our functioning as a house.
> (In the event that we decided not to participate, would the meeting 
> simply go ahead with the CSG participating and meeting with ICANN 
> staff without us? It just makes sense to me that we be at the table too.)
>
> That said, for a number of reasons I thought Iceland was not the most 
> sensible pick for the meeting this year. Rotating the meeting between 
> ICANN’s three hubs  – Los Angeles, Singapore, and Istanbul – makes a 
> lot more sense to me than wasting resources scouting out a new 
> location year upon year. And of course there are no objections on my 
> part to your condition that our participating representatives attend 
> well-prepared and ready to contribute.
Agree that rotating among the hubs makes a lot of sense.

Matthew

>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ayden Férdeline
> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline>
>
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Intersessional meeting
>> Local Time: July 22, 2017 11:39 PM
>> UTC Time: July 22, 2017 9:39 PM
>> From: farzaneh.badii at gmail.com
>> To: NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> For a couple of years, the noncontracted party house (NCPH, that 
>> means Commercial stakeholder group and noncommercial stakeholder 
>> group, for some information about NCPH refer to this 
>> page:https://community.icann.org/display/ncph/About+Us) have been 
>> having annual meetings separate from the main ICANN meeting. These 
>> meetings are called: "intersessional meetings".
>>
>> ICANN is asking NCPH whether they want to hold another meeting in 
>> 2018. The last meeting which was held in 2017 in Iceland was well 
>> received by the attendees and 100% of the attendees found the meeting 
>> useful.
>>
>> The attendees of the meeting are usually the leaders and active 
>> members of the group. This means both NCUC and NPOC Executive 
>> Committees and NCSG Executive Committee as well as NCSG 
>> representatives on GNSO Council. Sometimes we receive one or two 
>> travel slots to allocate to active participants of NCUC.
>>
>> There is support for the meeting from other groups.
>>
>> I would like to know if you have any opinion about holding an 
>> intersessional meeting in 2018, if you are either for or against it. 
>> In any case please provide reasons. I will communicate your ideas and 
>> positions on this to the organizers.
>>
>> My personal opinion is that intersessional is an additional burden on 
>> the volunteers, especially noncommercial groups, and I am not 
>> convinced that the meeting is that beneficial for getting to know the 
>> other groups, we can interact with the other groups in other 
>> settings. But it is not up to me to make a decision, there has been 
>> support for the meeting from the other groups and NCUC leaders as 
>> well. I have however informed ICANN that if  intersessiona take place 
>> it should consider the following conditions:
>>
>> 1. it is held in a visa friendly country, preferably where ICANN has 
>> an office so that it will not cost too much to hold the meeting. I 
>> think holding the meeting last year in Iceland was too burdensome and 
>> costly.
>>
>> 2. I have said this before and reiterate, those who want to attend 
>> the meeting should actively participate in its preparation, setting 
>> the agenda and be prepared for the meeting. This means they should 
>> attend at least some of the preparatory meetings leading up to the 
>> annual meeting. If they are allocated the travel slot late in the 
>> process, then they should read up on materials and contribute fully.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please discuss until Wednesday 26 July. I will send a note to the 
>> organizers with your comments.
>>
>> Best
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Farzaneh
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