Re: [council] Other criteria for consideration as part of the election for ICANN Board seat 14

["Sophia B" <sophiabekele@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,

Allow me to suggest one more significant matter to your tall order:-)

- understand basic policy matters
(can translate/separate technical issues and their policy implications
to members)

regards,
Sophia

On 04/04/06, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> In addition to the generic criteria in the ICANN bylaws, here are some
> additional specific criteria that I personally think is relevant for the
> GNSO to consider.  I would be interested in the thoughts from Council
> members on this list.
>
> Here are my thoughts on additional criteria:
>
> - experience at corporate governance (ie Board experience)
>
> - willingness to coordinate closely with the GNSO Council and GNSO
> constituencies
> (e.g advise Council of upcoming agenda items, seek views etc.  I
> recognise that a Board director must act in the best interests of ICANN
> as a whole, but I expect that a Board member elected by the GNSO would
> take advantage of the knowledge and contacts within the GNSO to be well
> informed on matters before making a decision)
>
> - basic knowledge of domain name industry
> E.g registries, registrars, resellers (ISPs, telcos, web hosting),
> registrants (individual, domainer, SME, corporate)
>
>
> - basic commercial acumen
> (ie can understand the commercial implications of decisions such as the
> recent change to the .com agreement)
>
> - good communicator/listener
> (willing to listen to a wide range of views within the GNSO, and have
> the ability to communicate concerns about a particular issue)
>
> - minimal potential conflicts of interest
> (any potential conflicts of interest should be clearly understood - e.g
> a few well known sources of funding from members of the ICANN community
> - such as a single employer, or a consultant for a few publicly
> announced organisations within the ICANN community)
>
> Note that I don't expect that a candidate would meet all these criteria
> - but I hope that the criteria above may stimulate some thinking about
> good candidates.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
> Registrars rep on GNSO Council
>
>