Re: [council] Topic for Senegal Board-GNSO Council Meeting

[William Drake <william.drake@xxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,

They redirected and Council failed to push back.  I actually thought it was 
pretty impressively executed.  

Was the PDT news a surprise to anyone?  I had assumed this was precisely what 
Kristina wanted to talk about…

Bill

On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Robinson wrote:

> My perspective on the board discussion in Singapore was that it was very 
> unsatisfactory.
>  
> We went down the path of discussing or possibly the board responded by 
> discussing the issues around confidential information and the effectiveness 
> or not of staff contracts in dealing with this.
>  
> My understanding was that the issue we had intended to discuss was conflicts 
> of interest, particularly for ICANN board and senior staff / executive 
> management, and what if any, effective corporate governance was in place to 
> manage and deal with this.
>  
> If I am correct in my understanding, we were either insufficiently clear in 
> communicating our topic of discussion or alternatively, the board was 
> unwilling or unable to discuss it. Regardless, I agree with Stéphane that 
> there was a distinct sense of “closed topic”.
>  
> The big question really revolves around corporate governance best practice at 
> ICANN.  How well is this understood, managed and kept current?
>  
> Trust that this input provides a little further insight.
>  
> Best wishes,
>  
>  
> Jonathan
>  
> From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Stéphane Van Gelder
> Sent: 19 July 2011 07:14
> To: Rosemary Sinclair
> Cc: Rosette, Kristina; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [council] Topic for Senegal Board-GNSO Council Meeting
>  
> I agree that clarifications would be useful here.
>  
> We discussed the revolving door issue with the Board in Singapore. I don't 
> know about others, but I got the feeling the Board felt that all that there 
> was to say on the subject had been said.
>  
> Of course at the time we were talking about ICANN Staff, not Board members.
>  
> So Kristina and others, if you could be more specific on the actual wording 
> of the topic you are requesting for the Dakar agenda, I'm sure that would be 
> useful to Jeff, who is handling our agenda for Dakar.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Stéphane
>  
>  
>  
> Le 19 juil. 2011 à 00:12, Rosemary Sinclair a écrit :
> 
> 
> Hi Kristina et al
>  
> Would you mind giving us some more background on the concerns here?
>  
> I might not be thinking about the right problem...
>  
> Thanks
> 
> Rosemary
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 19/07/2011, at 12:12 AM, "Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to see the revolving door topic on the agenda again, please.
>  
> http://www.tldh.org/2011/07/peter-dengate-thrush-appointed-as-executive-chairman-of-tldh/
>  
>  
> 
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