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FYI.
I'm in particular concerned with Steve's asking the Sos/ACs for "...major
resolutions in the works that deserve to be dealt with in a public Board
meeting" although I understand a positive intention to engage the community in
the process of establishing the board agenda. However any criteria to evaluate
what "indeed" may be of major interest are missing here (e.g. financial,
organizational, policy related impact e.a.). Unsatisfying discussions about the
rationale may follow.
I don't like that the responsibility for the decision to hold a public board
meeting is shifted to any SO/AC. To avoid unsatisfying discussions it may be
acceptable if the board holds a public meeting in case of at least one (two,
three...?) agenda items filed by any AC/SO regardless its assessment.
Best regards
Wolf-Ulrich
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Im Auftrag von Steve Crocker
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Mai 2012 01:25
An: Barbara Ann Clay; Rod Beckstrom; Denise Michel; David Olive; Nick Tomasso;
Diane Schroeder; Filiz Yilmaz; Christopher Mondini; soac-infoalert@xxxxxxxxx;
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Cc: Steve Crocker
Betreff: [Soac-infoalert] Draft blog post re Friday Board meetings, SO/AC
reports, etc.
Folks (Staff, SO and AC chairs, and Board),
I want to follow up on the announcement that we're wrapping up the ICANN
meeting on Thursday evening. We got a lot of feedback expressing concern, some
of which will be allayed with more information. Below is a draft of a blog
entry I'd like to post as soon as it's been properly coordinated. Please take
a look and let me know if there are flaws or missing pieces. (And if you know
of someone I should have included in this coordination cycle, pass this on and
also let me know.)
If I can get the relevant information re the SO and AC reports, I'll add it in.
Also, please let me know if there are indeed major resolutions in the works
that deserve to be dealt with in a public Board meeting. If so, we will need
to schedule a public Board meeting and I'll need to adjust the wording of this
blog posting.
Thanks,
Steve
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On April 30 I announced we will wrap up the ICANN meeting on Thursday evening
and not use Friday. (Some groups may choose to use Friday for their own
meetings; that's fine.) We have received multiple inputs asking for
clarification or suggesting this change has some adverse consequences. The
announcement was a bit light on details. I wanted to get the decision out so
everyone could adjust their travel plans. Now I want to say a bit more about
the changes.
In the past, we had three parts to the program on Friday morning -- reports
from the Board committees, reports from the chairs of the Supporting
Organizations and Advisory Committees, and a formal Board meeting. Attendance
during all parts of the morning have been very light. There really has not
been much actual utility for the community. Also every day of meeting time is
expensive, not just to ICANN but also to the community. Like many people, I
had been noticing that Friday mornings were not well attended, and it was clear
it was time to make a change. Let me now go into a few details, and I will
close with a promise that if the changes we're making for Prague are not in the
best interests of everyone, we will continue to evolve the schedule.
With respect to our Board meetings, the large majority of the resolutions we
approve are the regular pieces of business that are known well in advance. The
Board approves these resolutions without fanfare. The substantive work is done
via the Supporting Organizations or via staff work, and the work is posted.
Once in while there are Board actions that have some controversy or drama. The
XXX decision in San Francisco and the decision in Singapore to move forward
with the gTLD program are the two recent examples that come to mind. For
matters of this import, we will hold a public Board meeting. In Singapore, we
did this at the beginning of the week. This was a big improvement and really
helped set a positive tone for the entire week. I think this is a good
pattern, and I'm inclined to follow this when it's needed. I don't know how
often we'll have to do this; I suspect it will be less than half the time.
A closely related aspect of this change is we will no longer be rushing through
resolutions based on committee work or inputs during the week. We need to take
some time to develop the proper documentation. So, instead of trying to cap
the week off with resolutions passed on the basis of the week's work, we will
report on what's come up during the week, what happened between the last ICANN
meeting and this one, and what we plan to do following this ICANN meeting.
This is in accordance with the recommendations of the Accountability and
Transparency Review Team, and is consistent with the changes we made some time
ago to provide more thorough documentation in the form of a rationale for each
resolution. These changes will have the benefit of providing time for careful
and considered work on each resolution and better documentation for
transparency and accountability.
Our vice chair, Bruce Tonkin, observes:
An example of this approach was on the topic of Conflicts of Interest in Dakar
in October 2011. The Board listened to the community during the week, and then
in the public session on conflicts Board members gave some feedback to the
community on specific measures that would be taken with respect to new gTLDs.
After careful review by the legal team and review by Board members, the Board
held a meeting on 8 Dec 2011 and passed a resolution on management conflicts
for new gTLDs. The Board also passed other resolutions that resulted from the
discussion in Dakar.
We have made some related changes in the coordination of Board resolutions and
the scheduling of Board meetings. I will report on these changes in a separate
posting.
We recognize the community wants to see the Board in action and have the
opportunity to interact with the Board. Toward this end, we are making two
additional changes. In the opening session on Monday morning, I will include a
summary of what has taken place since the last meeting, and on Thursday
afternoon the Board will report on what it has heard during the week. The
Board will continue to engage eagerly in the public sessions, listening closely
to the comments from the community and responding to questions.
At the beginning of this blog I mentioned the reports from the SO and AC chairs
and the reports from the Board committees. We are still working out the
arrangements for these and I will report separately on the details. The SOs
and ACs are the lifeblood of ICANN, and we want to make sure they have greater,
not lesser visibility.
Finally, as I noted above, we are working hard to be both more effective and
more efficient. If we need to continue to evolve this process, we will.
Thank you.
Steve Crocker
Chair, ICANN Board of Directors
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