[council] About Designing a 21st Century ICANN

[john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Jonathan,
 
My coffee came through my nose this morning when I read the blueprint from the 
multistakeholder strategy panel.  But, while language like this: "engaging 
people in meaningful and productive conversations about how to redesign the way 
ICANN runs itself is difficult because the conversation gets caught, on the one 
hand, between the scylla of broad generalities and geopolitics without regard 
to the specifics of ICANN's day-to-day work, and the charybdis of mind-numbing 
technical detail on the other" is a bit overblown, it also works as 
mis-direction. There is no argument but that generalities, geopolitics and 
technical detail are a part of ICANN's life, but I would argue with "broad" and 
"mind-numbing."  That kind of language tips the player's hand.

Further, by pegging effectiveness to the use of expert networks and linking 
legitimacy to crowdsourcing at each stage of decision making may only hint at 
the future shape of ICANN but it is clear in its view that the current version 
is no longer appetizing.  I will likely think hard about that as I pack for the 
trip to Singapore.
 
Cheers,
 
Berard
 
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: [council] FW: Stage 2 Begins: 
Designing a 21st Century ICANN
From: "Jonathan Robinson" <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2/3/14 1:12 am
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN   
  
   From: The ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation & The GovLab 
[mailto:icannmsipanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 31 January 2014 19:01
To: jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN
 


                  
 
                                      
    
    
    
 
                 Hello! By engaging the stakeholders of the Internet (this 
really includes everyone!), the ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder 
Innovation (the MSI Panel) and The Governance Lab @ NYU (The GovLab) are 
working to develop a set of concrete proposals for designing the Internet 
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - the public interest 
organization responsible for coordinating the Internet's Domain Name System 
(DNS) - for the 21st Century.
 We're writing to request your participation in this important initiative and 
to help us spread the word!
 Today launches Stage 2 - Proposal Development - of our online engagement 
effort aimed at getting your input into the Panel's work in order to bring our 
ideas for evolving ICANN from principle to practice. The Panel has been 
specifically charged by ICANN's President and CEO with:
 ·  Proposing new models for international engagement, consensus-driven 
policymaking and institutional structures to support such enhanced functions; 
and
 ·  Designing processes, tools and platforms that enable the global ICANN 
community to engage in these new forms of participatory decision-making.
  To answer this charter, we launched a three-stage brainstorm initiative on 
November 19, 2013. We started with Stage 1: Idea Generation. The Panel and 
GovLab launched an engagement platform asking the global public to share their 
ideas for what techniques, strategies, tools and platforms ICANN could look to 
and learn from to help transform itself into an effective, legitimate and 
evolving 21st century global organization. 

We now want to take these ideas closer to implementation during Stage 2. To do 
so, we've shared the draft proposal blueprint on the GovLab Blog organizing all 
of our ideas into 16 concrete proposals for ICANN, which we are opening up to 
you for discussion. We want your feedback, input, comments, questions, and 
suggestions on what we've collected. We've also published our first set of 
proposals, which include recommendations for ICANN to:
 
 Leverage expert networking; Use crowdsourcing during all phases of 
decisionmaking; and Crowdsource oversight and develop standards to measure 
success. 

  Feel free to provide feedback or reactions using comments or the line-by-line 
annotation tools enabled on the blog.

You can also see all of these materials aggregated on the GovLab's ICANN 
project page, online HERE.
 
Help us spread the word!
 Do you know any people or organizations who would be interested in these 
proposal topics? We'd love to get their feedback, too. Consider doing any of 
the following:
 ·  Forward this “Call To Action” to colleagues and organizations you know 
working in these areas who may have ideas or feedback to share on the blog.
 ·  Share our proposal draft links (all accessible here), as widely as possible 
within your networks (e.g., via mailing lists and listservs). Feel free to link 
to these posts or repost on your website edited to fit your needs!
 ·  Use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ to spread 
the word about this initiative (use the #WeCANN hashtag!).
 ·  To inspire participation and learn how to contribute, watch and share a 
video The GovLab made when we launched this brainstorm.
 ·  Discuss the MSI Panel's work and proposals in your own communities and 
share your comments and feedback with the us in the blog comments or at 
icannmsipanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
   
 Toward the end of February - we will move into the last stage of this 
brainstorm - Stage 3: Collaborative Drafting. Using a wiki, we will invite 
collaborative drafting on a first full draft of all proposals that the Panel 
will then submit to the ICANN CEO, Board and community. So stay tuned!
 For more information, visit The GovLab at www.thegovlab.org.                   
                                                                                
        
 Thanks and best,
 The MSI Panel & The GovLab
 
     
    
    
 
                 
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