RE: [council] Response to Strategic Panel Blueprint

[john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Klaus,
 
Thanks for sending this along.  This particular strategy panel has generated 
quite a lot of discussion on the mailing list of the Commercial and Business 
Users Constituency, too.
 
Too often, the actions of ICANN are viewed not through the lens of what is 
being done, but what motivation lurks in the background.  To a large extent, 
ICANN has earned this skepticism, but it may be that, as the NPOC says, there 
is more of value in this effort than we recently have seen.  On that point, I 
found one paragraph of primary interest with regard to the possibility and the 
pitfall:
 
"This also underscores the sense of urgency around ICANN successfully 
confronting the challenges of a viable multi-stakeholder model in a world where 
virtually every person is becoming an Internet stakeholder. Done with some 
degree of success, ICANN can serve as a model for others in the Internet 
ecosystem. Done poorly, ICANN is doomed."
 
In our small way, the GNSO Council needs to do what it can -- participate, 
cajole, showcase -- the work of this and all the strategy panels to help tip 
the balance as the community intends.
 
Cheers,
 
Berard
 
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: [council] Response to Strategic 
Panel Blueprint
From: "Klaus Stoll" <kdrstoll@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2/13/14 9:27 am
To: "Council GNSO" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Dear GNSO Councilors
 
 Greetings. NPOC under the very able leadership of Sam Lanfranco had a 
 very fruitful discussion about the ICANN Strategic Panel on Multi 
 Stakeholder Innovation blueprint document "The Quest for a 21rst Century 
 ICANN". I am happy to attach a paper on the preliminary outcomes of the 
 ongoing discussion for your information and input. We hope that this 
 papers will help to support the discussion of the GNSO council. As the 
 blueprint went far bejond the panels remit, the paper also goes far 
 beyond the issues raised of the blueprint and touches on some ICANN 
 "fundamentals".
 
 In the hope to be able to make a constructive contribution to the 
 ongoing discussions and deliberations,
 
 Yours
 
 Klaus