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[council] Regarding time of the Board with the community
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- Subject: [council] Regarding time of the Board with the community
- From: Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:50:18 +0000
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- Thread-topic: Regarding time of the Board with the community
Hello All,
On the topic of time the board spends on its own versus with the community.
Generally on the weekend we do work within Board committees, and some work as
a Board workshop. The workload in these committees/workshops has increased
quite a bit in recent years - e.g work reviewing the ATRT 2 recommendations,
work on reviewing the budget, work on reconsideration requests, work on
responding to GAC advice etc.
We try to get much of this done at Board retreats etc - but to be timely we
also spend the weekend on it at the ICANN public meetings.
During the week we mostly attend meetings with the various stakeholders at
ICANN - GAC, ALAC, GNSO, RSSAC, SSAC, etc., and we attend the public sessions
on Monday.
We do take some time on Wednesday afternoon to prepare for the Board meeting
and public forum on Thursday. We used to work into the night during the week
- often 2 or 3am in the morning - which tends to lead to bad decisions.
Now we don't tend to work in the evenings - and make an effort to attend the
various social functions to interact with the community.
So we have probably moved to get a bit more work done during the day and
interact a bit more with the community in the evenings.
It would perhaps be helpful to think whether we can better use the time we do
allocate to the GNSO. Currently it is most of Tuesday and an hour on Sunday -
as a whole Board, and Bill Graham and I also attend additional meetings with
Stakeholder groups.
I have been feeling for some time that there is a lot of repetition between
these forums - particularly on Tuesday - so maybe we could think of better ways
of structuring that day - especially to get substantive input on the content of
proposed policies and procedures.
Apart from some discussion of IDNs - I don't think we discussed any actual
content today for example.
Regards,
Bruce Tonkin
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