Re: [council] FW: CEO/Community Leaders Conference Call - 18 Feb 2014

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Obviously as a member of the ATRT2 that was, I think that implementing 
it is a critical opportunity and necessity.
More than that, the AOC reviews are, in my view, a brilliant experiment 
in bottom-up oversight.  But this will only work if it is accepted as 
oversight by the Board and the senior management of ICANN, whatever the 
lawyers might say about a cooperate board accepting no master other than 
the State.  I also think that this year is the best, and possibly last 
chance, to show the world that indeed ICANN has oversight possibilities 
other than one-to-many governments.
avri


On 19-Feb-14 12:28, Maria Farrell wrote:
> Thanks very much for the update, Jonathan.
>
> I'm especially happy that we are focusing on the 'day job' and that
> ATRT2 is a priority. Implementing it properly will be critical.
>
> Maria
>
>
> On 19 February 2014 10:28, Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     All,____
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>     Yesterday, ICANN senior staff held a second CEO / Community Leaders
>     Conference Call.  As I understand it, this is intended to be a
>     regular briefing and interaction session which assists in bridging
>     the (significant) time gap between ICANN meetings.  Especially in
>     the context of such significant activity.____
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>     A recording of the call will be circulated shortly but I thought it
>     may be helpful if I shared a couple of highlights that I picked up
>     personally.____
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>     In particular 3 key areas were raised by Fadi Chehade as follows:____
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>     __1.__Introduction of major themes for the ICANN Singapore Meeting____
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>     __2.__Encourage feedback and comments on Strategic Panel
>     suggestions/recommendations____
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>     __3.__An update on the Recent Board Workshop ____
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>     Singapore Themes:____
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>     __a.__Carry strategic planning through to final stages.  N.B. The
>     issuing of strategic panels reports will occur prior to the meeting.
>     All will be out by this weekend.  It is very important that ICANN
>     hears from us.
>     N.B. These are recommendations for discussion & debate.____
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>     __b.__Recognise and ATRT2 outputs.  We need to embrace these and
>     recognise how they need to be acted on.____
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>     __c.__ICANN globalisation area.  There is broad momentum gathering
>     behind this and we will shortly see an ICANN board resolution from
>     18 February regarding ICANN globalisation____
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>     My personal take on this is positive i.e. that ICANN Singapore will
>     not be dominated solely by the Internet Governance agenda.
>     Important as this topic is, we have plenty to think about and do as
>     we get on with the “day job” at ICANN.  Encouragingly, this balance
>     is also consistent with the weighting that the GNSO Council has been
>     placing on these areas (where appropriate to our remit)  i.e. with a
>     relatively even balance between a, b & c above.____
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>     Fadi also touched on budgeting and expenses before handing over to
>     Xavier (ICANN’s CFO) to discuss these in more detail.  A key point
>     Fadi made was his intention to:____
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>     __A.__Manage operations within the budget and ____
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>     __B.__Recognise that the rate of expenditure _growth_ needs to slow
>     down from circa 20% per annum to a growth rate of high teens next
>     year and then low teens the following year.____
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>     Fadi & Xavier’s input were followed by Q&A through both audio and
>     chat and for those of you who would like to know and understand
>     more, this should all be public soon.____
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>     I trust that this is helpful and/or insightful.____
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>     Jonathan____
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