Re: [council] Managing the run-up to ICANN meetings

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Wolf,

I think that's the way we've all been coping up until now anyway. I fear that 
may no longer be enough...

Stéphane Van Gelder
Directeur Général / General manager
INDOM Group NBT France
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Head of Domain Operations
Group NBT

Le 7 juin 2012 à 09:11, <KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx> <KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 
> Thanks Stéphane for "raising this issue" (a PDP with heavy documentation to 
> be read has to follow :-)).
> 
> I see only one way to cope with these growing challenges:
> - Just read the summary conclusion of the doc's
> - decide whether it touches your SGs/constituency's interest and allocate it 
> to somebody in this group having some expertise (maybe it comes down to 
> yourself). NCA's may have a real problem...
> - if you're more interested read the recommendations
> - trust yourself that you did the right thing
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Wolf-Ulrich
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im 
> Auftrag von Stéphane Van Gelder
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2012 12:25
> An: GNSO Council List
> Betreff: [council] Managing the run-up to ICANN meetings
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In the interest of full transparency, I wanted to inform you of a Circle ID 
> article that I wrote: 
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120605_icann_gets_crazy_again/
> 
> You've heard me speak of the potential for volunteer burn-out many times in 
> the past. You've also heard me moan about the lack of pre-planning on 
> document roll out by ICANN. This post is also voicing my opinion that the 
> current trend is making it difficult for volunteer bodies like ours to 
> adequately look at all issues when making policy.
> 
> In actual fact, my main worry is with the Board. I am told that they get 
> about 3 times the volume of documents to read in the run-up to ICANN meetings 
> that we as community members get. So does that mean we're asking Board 
> members to get to grips with so much reports and briefings and documents, and 
> then expecting them to make quality decisions? If that's the case, I think we 
> are asking too much of them.
> 
> I note with interest a couple of the comments posted in response to this 
> article. Avri's comments, for example, rightly point out that some of these 
> reports do not require us to read every single page. However, I do think that 
> is an insider's POV, and one that is deeply involved with ICANN like Avri is 
> and has her depth of knowledge of the issues. I would wager that with so much 
> going on, most of us need to read a full report just to remind ourselves of 
> the subject matter's past history.
> 
> I was also interested to read Kieren's comments, because I think he hits the 
> nail on the head when he says that because there is a 15-day deadline for 
> document publication, everything tends to come out on that deadline. I agree 
> with him that if we are able to plan ahead more and better pre-plan, we would 
> not end up with more than 700 pages of reading to do before we all congregate 
> for what remains the most important item on the ICANN yearly calendar: the 
> ICANN meeting. After all, it is in these face-to-face meetings that a lot of 
> the crucial ICANN decisions get shaped, if not taken, so it is important that 
> they are based on people having had sufficient time to take in and digest the 
> documents that provide the context for them.
> 
> I hope you do not feel this email is off topic. I think this is at the heart 
> of what we do at ICANN, which is to constantly strive to do the best we can 
> when weighing the issues that we deal with at ICANN.
> 
> I would love to hear your views on this, not just as a Council, but also as 
> individual ICANN volunteers who all have to face the same problems that are 
> being described here: that of what bandwidth you have available to deal with 
> ICANN-related stuff in a way which you feel does credit to the organization 
> and what it is tasked with doing.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stéphane Van Gelder
> Directeur Général / General manager
> INDOM Group NBT France
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> Head of Domain Operations
> Group NBT
> 
> 
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