Re: [council] Re: For your information - latest version of the GNSO Marrakech Public Schedule

[Marika Konings <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx>]

To follow up on my message below, the session slot started out as an informal 
placeholder session for some broader "GNSO future" discussions that members of 
the Board wanted to facilitate in response to a number of individual 
discussions and comments that were made to Board members in Dublin.

In particular, at the Dublin public meeting there were discussions with members 
of the GNSO's commercial and non-commercial community about the potential 
future direction of the GNSO linked to the recent independent review efforts. 
You may have noted a number of viewpoints recently expressed that the current 
GNSO review has been limited to just operational matters whereas some had urged 
a broader structural assessment. Rather than field individual community 
inquiries, Board members seemed interested in facilitating broader community 
discussion to see if the community itself had an interest in pursuing those 
structural conversations more broadly.

Recently, leaders of the GNSO community's non-commercial community met for 
their Intersessional Meeting in Los Angeles (February 4-5) and continued 
general discussions about the potential future directions of the GNSO.  That 
group agreed to establish an informal group effort - not a formal process yet - 
and to try to continue their conversations in Marrakech (see - 
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56149573&preview=/56149573/58722580/transcript_plenary3_040216.pdf.

It has been considered that continuing the conversation in an informal "birds 
of a feather" environment may be a good way for giving interested community 
members the opportunity to share their views, update each other on their 
various thoughts and efforts and give them all an opportunity to see these 
various threads and how they might be connected/related.

As such this session was scheduled to provide a placeholder for an informal 
exchange and am interested to see who, if anyone, expresses an interest by 
showing up and engaging in an informal conversation. It was originally hoped 
that some Board members would be able to attend the session, but that is 
looking less likely now given meeting conflicts.

Best regards,

Marika

From: <owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> on 
behalf of Marika Konings 
<marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx>>
Date: Thursday 25 February 2016 at 16:45
To: "Austin, Donna" 
<Donna.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Donna.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxx>>, 
"council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" 
<council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: [council] Re: For your information - latest version of the GNSO 
Marrakech Public Schedule

According to the description, 'The purpose of this "Birds of a Feather" 
gathering is for interested community members to have an informal brainstorming 
session at ICANN55 about "Future Challenges facing the GNSO", that may result 
in a white paper or other written documentation'. I believe this is a session 
that is being facilitated by the Board Organisational Effectiveness Committee 
to provide an opportunity to explore topics of a structural nature that were 
not covered by the GNSO Review, but I am happy to try and find out more (or 
stand corrected if I got this wrong).

Best regards,

Marika

From: "Austin, Donna" 
<Donna.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Donna.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Date: Thursday 25 February 2016 at 15:54
To: Marika Konings <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx>>, 
"council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" 
<council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: RE: For your information - latest version of the GNSO Marrakech Public 
Schedule

Thanks Marika

Can you provide any insight into the session on Wednesday from 17:15 to 18:45 
"BOF" Preparing for Future Challenges of the GNSO?

Donna

From:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
[mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marika Konings
Sent: Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:55 PM
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [council] For your information - latest version of the GNSO Marrakech 
Public Schedule

Dear All,

Please find attached the latest version of the GNSO Schedule for Marrakech. 
Please note that we are still in the process of confirming some of these 
meetings, so further changes may occur. We will, of course, up date you as soon 
as possible should there be any further changes.

Best regards,

Marika