Hello all, The notes, recordings and transcripts for CCWG Accountability WS2 Staff Accountability Subgroup Meeting #5 – 01 December 2016 will be available here: https://community.icann.org/x/YITDAw A copy of the notes may be found below. Thank you. Kind Regards, Yvette Guigneaux Multi-Stakeholder & Strategic Initiative Assistant ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers 12025 Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, CA 90094 yvette.guigneaux@icann.org<mailto:yvette.guigneaux@icann.org> | www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/> ________________________________ Notes: (including relevant portions of the chat): - Intro stuff: agenda review, attendance, SOI check • Apologies received from Jordan Carter & George Sadowsky • Roll call will be taken from the AC room • Agenda approved • No SOI updates - Review mandate • Reviewed mandate from Annex12 - Review of where we are • Formal request for documentation made, still pending • Had initial discussion with Goran in F2F in HYD • Jordan & Avri have discussed basis for cooperation between Staff and Community, and are preparing a write-up of those discussions to share with the group asap • Denise: Do we have more details on how/when Goran is planning to document staff's role? • Avri: Should be part of the answers we are waiting to receive from ICANN • Greg: general message I heard from Goran is that the staff is here to serve/support the community. Performance reviews is a key point for this group to deal with. • Alan Greenberg: Performance reviews of people who are here to serve the volunteer community, but with no input from the volunteer community, is :"interesting" • Jeff Neumann would like to bring up another point. It feels that sometimes staff are at a loss and don't know what their path forward is. It is frustrating when something needs to be implemented and doesn't get implemented by ICANN staff. • We need answers on what exists, in order to review and further discuss. • Pam Little: Could we get a commitment when our questions will be answered? • Phil Corwin would like to bring up another point: means for GDD staff tio be sensitized to policy implications of certain contract negotiating positions and a procedure for them to inform policy staff and GNSO Council in advance to gather feedback on impact and appropriateness. - Review of what we need to get done and how we will get it done. • Avri presented next steps per her presentation • Reviewed the Staff Acct dashboard slide, that will be updated monthly. - Schedule and can we still meet the short track schedule • Avri thought the group was on the longer track, but for now the group is on the shorter track. • Seems difficult to meet the shorter track timeline, given the remaining work. • Alan, Greg, Cheryl agree the group cannot meet the shorter schedule. • Robin Gross: There are so many different ongoing working groups going on right now. It is just not possible to get it all done on the timeline ICANN wants. - AOB • No AOB.