Re: [council] 2nd topic for joint Board/GNSO dinner

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If others want this topic, that is fine.  But I am not sure it is one well 
suited for the Board because it is one that we need to work and we are.  

Chuck


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Sent: Fri Feb 19 07:40:13 2010
Subject: [council] 2nd topic for joint Board/GNSO dinner


I would like to propose a 2nd topic for the Board dinner (I believe the custom 
initiated by Avri was to have 2 topics).

As we saw yesterday from our discussions during the Council meeting, there is a 
danger of staff being overloaded by the current workload. And as I pointed out, 
my worry is more for us volunteers that have to balance an extremely demanding 
ICANN workload, for which we are neither paid nor compensated in any way, with 
our real lives and jobs. So I guess there comes a point where the question must 
be asked: is a system based on so much volunteer involvement viable in the long 
run, and if we want to keep the system as is (with the obvious benefits of 
being truly multi stakeholder), what solutions are there to make it viable (for 
example, more staff as Mike suggested yesterday)?

Thoughts?

Stéphane