RE: [council] FW: GNSO Meeting with the Board : Topics

[Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Donna.


>>  On the second point, I really think we would benefit from organized and 
>> sometimes moderated trilateral discussions, rather than the Board and GAC/ 
>> the Council and the Board/ and the GAC and the Council having separate 
>> discussions on the same subject. The continuous back and forth on the IGO 
>> acronym and Red Cross issues are a case in point. Perhaps this could have 
>> been circumvented if there had been an opportunity for open communication 
>> across the three groups. 

I completely agree the current – GAC-Board, GNSO-Board, GNSO-GAC combination of 
separate meetings sometimes spread over multiple ICANN meetings (ie Board might 
discuss a topic with GNSO in one public meeting, and discuss the same topic 
with GAC at a different public meeting)  is dysfunctional.    I would much 
prefer a structured GAC-GNSO-Board meeting on topics related to gTLDs, where 
the GAC has provided advice.


Regards,
Bruce Tonkin