Upcoming Board Retreat: leadership succession
As soon-to-be Board liaison, I have been invited to a Board retreat in Frankfurt next week, along with the Board's newly appointed members. As I understand it, the purpose of this retreat is to discuss the Board's chairmanship, since Vint Cerf's term is up at the end of the LA meeting. I have not yet had any briefings on the subject, nor do I know what confidentiality rules I'll be asked to follow once I am included in the discussion, but I anticipate I will not be able to get and ask for at-large guidance in real-time. So I would like to ask the at-large community for advance input, particularly on the qualities at-large deems important for a Chair and for Board governance. I imagine that those, and the reasoning behind them, will have more influence than preferences for specific individuals, given our non-voting status. I'm happy to take other thoughts at this time too, although I do not believe this meeting is intended for other substantive discussion. A few articles speculate that Peter Dengate Thrush and Roberto Gaetano are front-runners <http://www.stuff.co.nz/4218747a13.html>, <http://www.domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1317/qui-apres-vint-cerf.php>. Please feel free to send me comments on-list or off-. Thanks, --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ http://www.torproject.org/
Hi Wendy Personally, I think that the At Large should look for the following in a Board Chair - * who has demonstrated inclusiveness (esp of the individual users and the other unrepresented on the Board) in ICANN processes, policy and procedures. (Of course AtLArge will need to respond in order to validate the inclusion); * consideration for and activity in making ICANN more responsive to non-English speaking users (support for translation, interpretation, and other tools), (hey - maybe a non-English native speaker might send a good message to the rest of the world) * commitment to full participation (voting position on the Board) by At Large representatives at some time (once At Large proves itself as being a vital and productive member of the ICANN community) * And all the rest of stuff that a good Board Chair should be - negotiator, leader, etc. Jacqueline -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:wendy@seltzer.com] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:10 To: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [At-Large] Upcoming Board Retreat: leadership succession As soon-to-be Board liaison, I have been invited to a Board retreat in Frankfurt next week, along with the Board's newly appointed members. As I understand it, the purpose of this retreat is to discuss the Board's chairmanship, since Vint Cerf's term is up at the end of the LA meeting. I have not yet had any briefings on the subject, nor do I know what confidentiality rules I'll be asked to follow once I am included in the discussion, but I anticipate I will not be able to get and ask for at-large guidance in real-time. So I would like to ask the at-large community for advance input, particularly on the qualities at-large deems important for a Chair and for Board governance. I imagine that those, and the reasoning behind them, will have more influence than preferences for specific individuals, given our non-voting status. I'm happy to take other thoughts at this time too, although I do not believe this meeting is intended for other substantive discussion. A few articles speculate that Peter Dengate Thrush and Roberto Gaetano are front-runners <http://www.stuff.co.nz/4218747a13.html>, <http://www.domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1317/qui-apres-vint-cerf.php>. Please feel free to send me comments on-list or off-. Thanks, --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ http://www.torproject.org/ _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.35/1039 - Release Date: 9/29/2007 21:46 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.35/1039 - Release Date: 9/29/2007 21:46
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Jacqueline A. Morris -
Wendy Seltzer