[NCUC-DISCUSS] Updates on ICANN67

[Mueller, Milton L]

Thanks to Bruna for keeping us updated on what is going on with the all-virtual meeting, I guess we can call it the Zoom meeting. Appreciate the explanation, and agree with many of your criticisms.

But in one sense I think is fine to collapse the NCSG and NCUC meetings. I would not call that an abandonment of the NCUC, let’s just call it a merger. I hope you as well as NPOC can stick some of their own things into the agenda. And it don’t hurt us to discuss those things together. Everyone knows I don’t believe there should be separate constituencies anyway, just the unified SG. So it might do us good to meet together.

In that sense I agree with Benjamin that we can make lemonade out of this lemon and maybe make use of the opportunity to improve the multistakeholder model


Dr. Milton L Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
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From: Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> On Behalf Of Benjamin Akinmoyeje
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 10:00 PM
To: Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>
Cc: NCUC Discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Updates on ICANN67

Dear Chair,
Thank you for the update. It is indeed a challenge, just like every experiment is. Change is always constant, also in the face of the health challenges, the world faces at this present time.
Maybe we can make some lemonade out of this lemon without hurting the MS model and rather improve it.

Kind regards,
Benjamin

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 6:59 PM Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com<mailto:bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>> wrote:
We just got off another planning call, and with some new updates:

1. Number of sessions has been cut down from over 300 sessions to less than 75 - all in UTC-5.

2. Upon request ICANN can provide zoom rooms with live translation to both French and Spanish. But we need to gather within our constituency whether there will be interest for any of the channels just so ICANN can set up one for NCSG or if we could just join the ones being facilitated to ALAC and GAC.

Please let me or @Maryam Bakoshi<mailto:maryam.bakoshi at icann.org> know if you would like to attend the meeting from either one of the channels - Spanish or French ones.

Best regards,
Bruna Santos


Le ven. 28 févr. 2020 à 12:23, Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com<mailto:bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>> a écrit :
Dear NCUC,

I just wanted to write you a short update on the upcoming ICANN virtual meeting. As you're all aware, recently ICANN decided to no longer host an onsite meeting and gave their staff and the Community Leaders the - impossible - challenge of organizing in two weeks an virtual meeting that should attempt at reproducing what would've been the schedule of ICANN67.

On that note some important things:
(a) NCUC will no longer host any sessions during this virtual meeting. On the interest of time and already foreseeing some difficulties our members might have in following this meeting, we will host our Members and EC session at a later date.
(b) ICANN67 Schedule will be shorter. Comm leaders were asked to only keep strictly necessary sessions and the consensus around the group was to keep mostly PDPs, Review Teams or any other Cross-community work we deemed necessary.
(c) Timezone will be Cancun TImezone - UTC -5 - and the meeting will run for shorter hours than normal, from 9h00 to 17h00.
(d) Live Translation Services will only be provided for English to Spanish + some live transcripts that could be translated. We understand that decision should be slightly exclusionary for other communities such as the Francophone community and maybe we could think of ways of having our french speakers writing up summaries of the sessions to be shared on the list.

With regards to the final schedule I believe ICANN should be able to provide us a new one by the beginning of next week.

Last but not least, I would like to highlight how problematic this experiment has been. Of course it is a first time for ICANN and for us volunteers, but the decision of adapting the entire schedule in two weeks is ambitious to say the least. I also fear that this experiment ends up harming the MS model we have built ICANN around, whether virtual or onsite, a lot of the communities interactions are being sacrificed on behalf of this first experiment and I just hope we get to have an onsite Kuala Lumpur meeting as well as a broader community discussions about this first virtual meeting.

While I highly appreciate all the efforts being made by David Olive, Tanzanica, the meetings team and Maryam in making sure our priority meetings do make it to the schedule, (personal thought) I would've wished for ICANN to just call this meeting of or even postpone it for us to have a bit more time in discussing with our constituents what the priorities should be and how to better adjust the schedule.

I will keep you all posted when there are more updates on the virtual meeting.

Best Regards,

--
Bruna Martins dos Santos

Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
@boomartins


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Bruna Martins dos Santos

Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
@boomartins
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