Re: [council] FW: CEO/Community Leaders Conference Call - 18 Feb 2014

[Maria Farrell <maria.farrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much for the update, Jonathan.

I'm especially happy that we are focusing on the 'day job' and that ATRT2
is a priority. Implementing it properly will be critical.

Maria


On 19 February 2014 10:28, Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All,
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> Yesterday, ICANN senior staff held a second CEO / Community Leaders
> Conference Call.  As I understand it, this is intended to be a regular
> briefing and interaction session which assists in bridging the
> (significant) time gap between ICANN meetings.  Especially in the context
> of such significant activity.
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> A recording of the call will be circulated shortly but I thought it may be
> helpful if I shared a couple of highlights that I picked up personally.
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> In particular 3 key areas were raised by Fadi Chehade as follows:
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> 1.       Introduction of major themes for the ICANN Singapore Meeting
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> 2.       Encourage feedback and comments on Strategic Panel
> suggestions/recommendations
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> 3.       An update on the Recent Board Workshop
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> Singapore Themes:
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> a.       Carry strategic planning through to final stages.  N.B. The
> issuing of strategic panels reports will occur prior to the meeting.
> All will be out by this weekend.  It is very important that ICANN hears
> from us.
> N.B. These are recommendations for discussion & debate.
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> b.      Recognise and ATRT2 outputs.  We need to embrace these and
> recognise how they need to be acted on.
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> c.       ICANN globalisation area.  There is broad momentum gathering
> behind this and we will shortly see an ICANN board resolution from 18
> February regarding ICANN globalisation
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> My personal take on this is positive i.e. that ICANN Singapore will not be
> dominated solely by the Internet Governance agenda.  Important as this
> topic is, we have plenty to think about and do as we get on with the "day
> job" at ICANN.  Encouragingly, this balance is also consistent with the
> weighting that the GNSO Council has been placing on these areas (where
> appropriate to our remit)  i.e. with a relatively even balance between a, b
> & c above.
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> Fadi also touched on budgeting and expenses before handing over to Xavier
> (ICANN's CFO) to discuss these in more detail.  A key point Fadi made was
> his intention to:
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> A.      Manage operations within the budget and
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> B.      Recognise that the rate of expenditure *growth* needs to slow
> down from circa 20% per annum to a growth rate of high teens next year and
> then low teens the following year.
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> Fadi & Xavier's input were followed by Q&A through both audio and chat and
> for those of you who would like to know and understand more, this should
> all be public soon.
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> I trust that this is helpful and/or insightful.
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> Jonathan
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