Happy to be part of draft review team Philip S. Corwin Partner, Butera & Andrews 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20004 202-347-6875/Office 202-255-6172/Cell "Luck is the residue of design." -- Branch Rickey From: Marilyn Cade [mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:18 AM To: ron Andruff <randruff@rnapartners.com>; bc - GNSO list <bc-gnso@icann.org> Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] RE: GNSO Shelves New gTLD Work Due to Lack of Staff Support I agree. And in this case, am proposing this as chair, which I rarely do, but we have had a lot of member comments on this topic over our various meetings and calls. This is more a StratPlan/Operating Plan topic, not a Council issue. So, this letter would support any comments of councilors within the Council, but would go to the Chair/CEO/President, and Board. I am proposing a letter from the BC Chair, noting that this concern is a BC concern. The letter would be circulated to members for acceptance of the language of the letter. We need to send the letter by the end of January, in order to have effective visibility. I'll do a draft, but would welcome some additional members on drafting and editing. Other volunteers? Chris, I am including you as V.Chair, Finance and Operations, and perhaps the two Finance Committee members as well? Others who want to join this quick turn around drafting should so note. Marilyn Cade BC Chair ________________________________ From: randruff@rnapartners.com To: bc-gnso@icann.org Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] RE: GNSO Shelves New gTLD Work Due to Lack of Staff Support Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:03:08 -0500 I have been concerned about the lack of a compliance chief and two staff members since just after the Brussels meeting (some 7 months ago). For this reason I asked our new COO about it in Cartagena at the BC meeting… We were told that the method of interviewing and ascertaining who the new compliance chief would be was complicated insomuch as every candidate had to meet with all of the senior ICANN staff as well as those he/she would be supervising. That sounded a little like a smoke screen to me, but I accepted it. At this stage, however, is it not time for the BC to send a letter to the Chairman and the CEO noting our frustration? The CEO assured all of us in the public forum that he was committed to ensuring that the community had all of the resources necessary for compliance to be a robust component of the new gTLD program, as I recall. Kind regards, Ronald N. Andruff RNA Partners, Inc. ________________________________ From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Marilyn Cade Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:57 PM To: Adam Palmer; bc - GNSO list Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] RE: GNSO Shelves New gTLD Work Due to Lack of Staff Support I am also quite concerned about these vacancies, but also the related vacancies for enforcement /compliance. The comment made about staff support for Council policy development really didn't touch these critical positions, and it is very important that Berry and Adam are calling your attention to those positions. Adam, Berry, I am working on comments on the Ops Plan/Budget. I am thinking that we should make a clear statement on the implications of these positions. I am not going to dwell on this, but having hired, trained, and coached folks in such positions, we MUST recognize that being hired is not being effective in a position, leaving aside other challenges. So, ICANN's delays in hiring have significant impact on ability for staff to actually 'do their job'. ________________________________ From: Adam_Palmer@symantec.com To: bc-gnso@icann.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:25:23 -0800 Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] RE: GNSO Shelves New gTLD Work Due to Lack of Staff Support I know these jobs require skilled managers and are not easy fills, but it alarms me they have gone vacant so long. I don’t understand how we can seriously expect good results from even the best planning, if there is a lack of leadership to execute those plans. This concerns me, and assuming others feel the same, I think it is something we need to continue to use our BC voice to remind ICANN that it must have an effective staff infrastructure in place that instills trust in the community. This is now more important than ever. Best regards, Adam Adam Palmer Norton Lead Cyber Security Advisor Symantec Phone: 703-232-4914 From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Berry Cobb Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:07 PM To: 'Bc GNSO list ' Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] RE: GNSO Shelves New gTLD Work Due to Lack of Staff Support The three open reqs still appear on ICANN’s Career section. In other news, there are two new reqs for gTLD operations, make a total of three for the new program. http://hostedjobs.openhire.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=app.allpositi... Berry Cobb Infinity Portals LLC berrycobb@infinityportals.com http://infinityportals.com 720.839.5735 From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Adam Palmer Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:20 PM To: Bc GNSO list Subject: [bc-gnso] RE: GNSO Shelves New gTLD Work Due to Lack of Staff Support Hi, Phil’s post about staff workload reminded me---is there any update on ICANN’s efforts to fill some of the key security and compliance jobs? Apologies if these are filled now and I missed it. I don’t see them listed on the staff web directory. Best, Adam Palmer Symantec