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FW: [soac-discussion] CEO/Community Leaders Conference Call - 18 February 2014
by Jonathan Robinson 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

All. FYI. Jonathan. From: owner-soac-discussion(a)icann.org [mailto:owner-soac-discussion@icann.org] On Behalf Of David Olive Sent: 19 February 2014 23:32 To: soac-discussion(a)icann.org Cc: Fadi Chehade; Cassia Oliveira; Tina Shelebian; Sally Costerton; Xavier J. Calvez; Theresa Swinehart; Tarek Kamel; Duncan Burns; Robert Hoggarth; John Jeffrey; Akram Atallah; Susanna Bennett; Susie Johnson Subject: [soac-discussion] CEO/Community Leaders Conference Call - 18 February 2014 Dear SO/AC/SG Leaders: Attached please find the Chat and Transcript of Tuesday's CEO/Community Leaders conference call. Below is the link to the MP3 file. http://audio.icann.org/so-ac-leaders-18feb14-en.mp3 These documents are posted at: <https://community.icann.org/display/soaceinputfdback/Event+Calendar> https://community.icann.org/display/soaceinputfdback/Event+Calendar Regards, David -- David A. Olive Vice President, Policy Development Support General Manager, ICANN Regional Headquarters -Istanbul Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Hakki Yeten Cad. Selenium Plaza No:10/C K:5 34349 Fulya, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey Tel: +90.212.381.8727 - Fax: +90.212.381.8731 - Mobile: +1. 202.341.3611

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Theresa Swinehart on the Creation of the President's Global Advisory Groups
by Marika Konings 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

Dear All, For your information, you can find a video with Theresa Swinehart, Sr Advisor to the President on Strategy, on the creation of the President's Global Advisory Groups which provides some further information on the background and objective of these groups at http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/video-globalization-advisory-groups- 25feb14-en.htm. Best regards, Marika

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DRAFT/early thoughts on what a CEO performance review motion
by john＠crediblecontext.com 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

All, Does this get at the intent? Suggestions are more than welcome as I think we are breaking new ground here. I apologize if the format is not perfect, but if we crowdsource it, I think we can button it up. Cheers, Berard Whereas, Fadi Chehade was announced as the new CEO and President of ICANN at the organization's meeting in Prague in June 2012, and Whereas, in his first presentation to the ICANN community in Prague in June 2012, he noted that “I am driven by building consensus. It is the reason I am here today. There is no other reason. I love doing this. Bringing communities that on the face of it could never be brought together to agree on common things is exactly what I strive to do,” and Whereas, as reported at the time he joined ICANN, “In selecting Chehade, ICANN went with someone who isn't well known and isn't well versed in the organization's core tasks - keeping the Internet address system running smoothly,” and Whereas, in the two years of his term, the landscape of the Internet and role played by ICANN has changed in ways equal only to the origin of the organization, including significant budget and staff increases, and Whereas, in response to the expanded attention to the domain name system and ICANN's role in managing it, Chehade has championed changes in the policy development process, Therefore, beginning on March 26, 2014 with the passage of this motion, and continuing through the next ICANN public meeting in London in June 2014, the community, under the leadership of a review committee comprised of the GNSO's constituency and stakeholder leadership, shall have the opportunity to offer comment on the performance of the CEO.

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Notes from today's GNSO Council call
by Mike O'Connor 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

hi all, as many of you know, i’m an obsessive note-taker in meetings. i thought i would share my notes from the call this morning with this list and ask you to let me know if you would like me to continue sending them to this list as well. these are mostly for me, and my ISPCP colleagues (so pay no attention to the action-items, those are mostly for me). feel free to sing out if you find these annoying or unhelpful. these are NOT official minutes, just personal notes of one member. disclaimer — these are my notes and may contain errors of fact or understanding. if something in here makes you unhappy, check with me or the person before taking extreme action. :-) also note that item 6 and item 4 were reversed on the agenda, which is why these notes are not in strictest numeric sequence. mikey Council call - 27-Feb 2014 +- Item 1: Administrative matters (10 mins) 1.1 Roll Call +- 1.2 Statement of interest updates Maria Farrell ~ https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Maria+Farrell+SOI 1.3 Review/amend agenda +- 1.4. Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meeting per the GNSO Operating Procedures: Minutes of the GNSO Council meetings 23 January 2014 were posted as approved on 17 February 2014. +- Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (10 mins) Review focus areas and provide updates on specific key themes / topics Include review of Projects List and Action List. +- Comments or questions arising. Action: note a diary entry to review the list prior to each meeting - and forward to the ISPCP list Item 3: Consent agenda (0 mins) +- Item 4: UPDATE & DISCUSSION – GNSO Engagement with the work of the ICANN Strategy Panels (15 mins) +- Here the Council will receive an update on any relevant interaction with and output from the strategy panels and discuss any appropriate action going forward. +- Update: +- Strat Panels are out for comment ~ icann.org > En > News > Public-comment > Strategy-panels-25feb14-en ~ icann.org > En > News > Announcements > Announcement-2-25feb14-en Fadi's recent update to AC/SO chairs -- on role panels and their role in the strategy process -- concern about top-down was discussed +- MSI panel -- +- 16 proposals (here's a link to my little matrix of the proposals -- arrayed by Goal <--> Tool and Participation <--> Policy) ~ haven2.com > Wp-content > Uploads > 2007 > 07 > PDP-Overview-GAC-GNSO-v5 +- Jonathan has reached out -- got off to a bit of a slow start -- but meetings 2 weeks ago and yesterday +- flag waving - we're the Council and the GNSO - your work feels as though it overlaps our remit - so we are very tuned to you work Novak offered to do some kind of interview -- Jonathan was uncomfortable +- Yesterday's meeting working toward a meeting with 1/2 members of the staff (govLab) people in singapore opportunity to home in on a subset of the recommendations that are more closely related to the policy work of the GNSO +- 2 issues +- "top down" concern Jonathan: best aimed at Fadi not the MSI panel +- Discussion +- Berard +- "this is something we need to talk about" reenforces the "executivification" of ICANN -- it's really hard for a part time person to stay above the raging water -- the community is becoming more professional -- this is driving some of our community members mad -- the more we can do to foster discussion at the broadest level in the community, the better Jonathan shares concern over the raging water Jonathan emphasises distinction between MSI content and MSI chartering +- Amr +- commisioning is very top down -- there is a lot of work going on -- that's where the changes would have to be reviewed doesn't feel quite as concerned as others are +- Jonathan - we have the opportunity to engage -- maybe a written response to the panel from the council reaction to their work AND work that the GNSO is doing +- Stoll +- we need to inform them to alert them to overlaps AND we need to inform administration of concerns directly comments seem to go into a black hole be careful in the engagement +- Chiao volunteers -- substantial proportion of cycles going to IG issue registries -- implementation requirements, additional load of IG work -- overloaded is not just limited to volunteers in non-contracted parties. Ry's and Rr's are struggling to keep up with implementation requirements in addition to policy-making and IG discussion. Very hard, especially for smaller registries. +- ICANN is now representing all of our voices -- will people outside of ICANN have a chance to talk with the community directly? Is ICANN trying to represent us, rather than letting that conversation take place directly? maybe it's time for constituencies to step out +- Greimann topics are very worthwhile -- also helpful to have an outside voice -- however i think this effort should have come in the ICANN way -- thus they have a bit of a birth defect because of the way they were launched -- we shouldn't be deferential, give advice, should be seen as comparable to the GAC +- Greenberg MSI - remember they were put in place to comment on the *whole* MS model, not just GNSO -- their remit is broader - they were asked to suggest changes - informed process -- they DID suggest changes and we need to embrace/refine their suggestions without appearing defensive +- Followup Jonathan will follow up with Theresa about how we can best interact with these panels +- Item 5: UPDATE – PDP Working Group on Translation & Transliteration of Contact Information (10 mins) The GNSO Council recently initiated a Policy Development Process (PDP) on the Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information. As part of its efforts to obtain broad input from the ICANN Community at an early stage of its deliberations, the Working Group has requested input from the Supporting Organizations (including the GNSO) and Advisory Committees on several questions relating to the issues identified in the PDP Final Issue Report. +- 5.1 – Update (Ching Chiao) presented by Chris Dillon - cochair +- request for input - deadline is tomorrow https://community.icann.org/x/FTR-Ag +- 5.2 – Discussion +- Chiao - thanks Chris, encourages comments from constituencies Action: remind ISPCP of need for input 5.3 – Next steps +- Item 6: UPDATE & DISCUSSION – International Internet Governance Issues (20 mins) Discussions and activity relating to international Internet Governance issues are attracting a great deal of attention in ICANN and related groups. This item is on the agenda to provide an opportunity for discussion within the Council about how this impacts the role and work of the Council and mindful of the scope and remit of the Council, what action the Council should or could be taking. +- 4.1 – Status update (Sally Costerton) Jonathan: what should be focusing on at Council +- Sally: +- several streams around IG +- Background +- Buenos Aires - became clear that profile of IG was increasing - triggered by Snowden issue the rest of the world had "woken up" resurfaced WCIT issues very full IG calendar in 2014 Fadi's view - sense that there is frustration over how hard IG issues are to resolve ITU - march toward their meeting late in the year -- debate around whether they're going to change their remit if we don't participate others will do it for us +- 1Net discussion forum where debate is taking place in great detail now has a steering committee +- web forum is up and running -- discussion is migrating that direction -- much easier to follow than the overwhelming traffic on the email list ~ https://forum.1net.org/ +- CCWG discuss and collect input meeting weekly goal: position by the end of March +- email archive http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ccwg-internet-governance/ +- web page https://community.icann.org/display/CPMMB/ICANN+Community+Preparation+for+t… +- Hi Level Panel (5th panel) +- 3 f2f meetings December now May there is to be a submission to the Brazil meeting +- NetMundial goal: HOW to decide, not decide submissions of principle and framework late April, just after Easter hosted by Brazilian govt 4 cochairs Hi level committee -- just met this week -- goal: good attention/attendance by governments deadline for registration is tomorrow (28-Feb) +- registration web page ~ content.netmundial.br > Interests > Expression +- overall web page ~ netmundial.br +- Singapore NCSG event -- starts at 10am, Friday before meeting, 10:00 - 18:00, followed by reception w/Fadi Several events during the ICANN meetings +- 4.2 – Discussion +- Berard; +- ccNSO: categories of participation in NetMudial meetingdon't make room for ccTLD managers -- is this a metaphor for the way that IG discussions aren't leaving room for individual members of ICANN +- tactical - ccNSO members? open registration meeting - everybody is welcome - first come first served attendance strongly encourage participation +- Snowden revelations provide excellent cover for political intent -- what is Fadi's public position on this? Maria Farrell: John - the Montevideo statement sets out pretty clearly the concern re. pervasive monitoring and Internet stewardship. Fadi signed it for ICANN so I think it's fair to say he sees a link. Even if some use the Snowden revelations tactically, the fact remains that many have lost faith in the impartiality of the USG. +- Costerton: get asked questions about globalization of ICANN and Snowden - we don't have a particular view - realization within the US govt that structures may need to change need to reenforce other voices at the table +- Richard Clark transcript -- the two issues are as far apart as one could find ~ windowsitpro.com > Identity-management > Richard-clarke-rsa-conference-10-observations-us-intelligence-gathering +- Farrell +- Board resolution on globalization - disquite on lack of consultation, yet more CEO appointed panels, a lot of CEO-led activity going on. concern about Council role in this ad hoc series of actions by administration +- Board chair saw a lot of email on this -- perhaps the 1net list? ~ Marika Konings: Please note that this is the email from Steve Crocker that Sally was referring to: http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/002194.html Costerton; with her engagement hat on -- groups are to facilitate the discussion that you have described Maria -- they will be in Singapore and given a public block - Council needs to know that their role is to act as facilitator +- Avri would very much have liked to participate the process of setting this up - post is coming to the list Action: watch for that post +- Cake: +- is there anything that the Council or SGs should do? reach out to communities and encourage them to participate in Netmundial +- take a look at the BCG report ~ icann.org > En > News > Announcements > Announcement-24jan14-en +- Chiao congratulates Costerton on ASIAPAC engagement -- AsiaPAC members would like to be more engaged with the actual meetings, not just talking to people in the region, bring people to the meeting table and actually contribute 4.3 – Next steps +- Item 7: UPDATE & DISCUSSION – GAC Engagement – the work of the Joint GAC / GNSO Consultation Group (15 mins) Here the Council will receive an update and discuss any action going forward. +- 7.1 – Status update +- Amr: +- Reviewed charter -- http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gac-gnso-cg/attachments/20140212/c6e3f7b6/GAC… Two work streams - PDP early engagement and day to day interaction +- 7.2 – Discussion +- Mikey Charter is done, proposals are in progress 7.3 – Next steps +- Item 8: UPDATE & DISCUSSION – Forthcoming review of the GNSO (10 mins) As part of a periodic review process that is built into the ICANN model, ICANN board initiated reviews of the GNSO (and the GNSO Council and related functions) are expected. In order to be informed and effectively prepared for this work, we have begun to engage with the body that commissions such reviews (the structural improvements committee) through its chair, Ray Plazk. The Council will track the planning work of the SIC and, where appropriate; provide relevant input to the process. We will also prepare to undertake a form of self-review in a similar format to that which we expect to arise out of the work of the SIC. A self-review will ensure that we are not only prepared for the board initiated work but also able to flag areas for potential improvement in as timely as possible a manner. +- 8.1 – Update (Jennifer Wolfe) there is no update since the last meeting -- still waiting for an update from Ray Jonathan: will there be a document prior to Singapore? Marika: nothing expected to be published before Singapore 8.2 – Discussion 8.3 – Next steps +- Item 9: UPDATE & DISCUSSION – Planning for Singapore (15 mins) Making the most out of the face-to-face meeting time available at the ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires will take planning. GNSO Council Vice Chair, David Cake will lead this and will be working with the Council and staff on this effort. Here the Council has the opportunity to feed into plans and provide input based on past experience. Included in this item will be the opportunity to shape the approach to and substance of the Council’s proposed meetings with other groups in such as the CCNSO, the GAC and the ICANN board. +- 9.1 – Update (David Cake & Jonathan Robinson) Cake: very much Draft, 9.2 – Discussion +- 9.3 – Next steps Action: forward the draft schedule to the ISPCP list if it hasn't been already -- DONE +- Item 10: Any Other Business (10 mins) +- Community budget requests +- requests from the Council: Council development session, face-to-face PDP meetings (potential for facilitation), GAC GNSO reverse liaison (placeholder) +- ICANN Board Seat 14 – NCPH - additional Council meeting Thursday, 10 April 2014 at 14:00 UTC this is a placeholder for that meeting -- Glen to follow up to the list -- rationale for meeting +- Note the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) presence in Singapore Action: schedule them with ISPCP on Tuesday? Action: note public session to ISPCP list +- Meeting Strategy WG has draft out for comment +- Action: forward to ISPCP list - DONE ~ icann.org > En > News > Public-comment > Meetings-strategy-25feb14-en Action: comments from ISPCP? - DONE +- Amr: EWG process -- is Issue report the same as the EWG final report? Marika: important to separate the two. final report due London, may be another round of public comment. There is already an initial report underway -- EWG will feed into that Issue Report, which will proceed to PDP because it's Board initiated PHONE: 651-647-6109, FAX: 866-280-2356, WEB: www.haven2.com, HANDLE: OConnorStP (ID for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

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Draft Singapore schedule
by David Cake 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Please find attached a draft schedule for GNSO activities for the Singapore meeting. Please understand that, though interactions with senior ICANN staff and the board have to contend with very busy schedules, and so may be awkward to change, this is very much a draft schedule, presented for Council discussion and input - please feel free to suggest additional items, or remove them. You'll notice that 15 minutes per WG fills up a fair bit of our schedule, and we have allocated 30 minutes for some - comments on this appreciated. I very much appreciate your input either on list, or on the Council call. One item I'll note isn't currently on the schedule - the RSSAC is meeting at the Singapore meeting, and this is very unusual. We currently don't have any RSSAC/GNSO interaction scheduled - if council members think this would be valuable, please say so ASAP. Such interaction would have to be from Monday to Wednesday. Regards David

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Follow up from GNSO Council meeting - additional Council meeting planned
by Glen de Saint Géry 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear All, As requested, the reason for asking for an additional Council meeting is as follows: ICANN Board Seat 14 is currently held by Bill Graham. His term is set to expire at the 2014 Annual General Meeting, which is scheduled to be held on 16 October 2014 in Los Angeles. According to the ICANN Bylaws, the Non-Contracted Party House shall select a representative to fill Board Seat 14, and must give the ICANN Secretary written notice of its selection at least 6 months before the date of the beginning of the term for the seat. As a result, the Non-Contracted Party House selection for Board Seat 14 must be provided to the ICANN Secretary by no later than April 16, 2014. (Refer to Bylaws Art. VI, Section 8(4)<http://www.icann.org/en/about/governance/bylaws#VI-8>, Art. X, Section 3(6)<http://www.icann.org/en/about/governance/bylaws#X-3>) and they must be confirmed by the GNSO Council at a meeting before April 16, 2014. Thus it is suggested that the Council call a special meeting with this one agenda item on Thursday, 10 April at 14:00 UTC (14:00 UTC a time slot that appears to cause the least pain all round). Please let us know if you will NOT be able to attend the extra brief meeting. Sally Costerton asked us to share with you the link to the report by Boston Consulting Group commissioned by ICANN, http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-24feb14-en.htm as well as inform you that there will be a blog up on Icann.org<http://Icann.org> in the next few days detailing the role of the Board groups. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you Mikey for getting out your notes so rapidly! Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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MP3 recording and chat transcript GNSO Council 27February 2014
by Glen de Saint Géry 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

[To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org] Please find the MP3 recording of the GNSO Council teleconference held on Thursday, 27 February 2014 at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-20140227-en.mp3 as well as the Adobe chat transcript at : http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-chat-council-27feb14-en.pdf all on page http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#feb Thank you. Happy listening and reading! Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> http://gnso.icann.org

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A good summary of Richard Clarke's comments at RSA
by john＠crediblecontext.com 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Sally, Take a look at this report on the presentation I mentioned by former U.S. Cyber Security Chief Richard Clarke: http://windowsitpro.com/identity-management/richard-clarke-rsa-conference-1… Thanks for being on the call today. Cheers, Berard

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link to email from steve Crocker
by Glen de Saint Géry 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear All, Please note that this is the email from Steve Crocker that Sally was referring to: http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/002194.html Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> http://gnso.icann.org<http://gnso.icann.org/>

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Email from Steve Crocker referenced in update by Sally Costerton
by Marika Konings 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear All, Please find below the email from Steve Crocker that Sally referred to during her presentation. Best regards, Marika http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/002194.html Steve Crocker steve at shinkuro.com <mailto:discuss%401net.org?Subject=Re:%20Re%3A%20%5Bdiscuss%5D%20governments %20and%20rule%20of%20law%20%28was%3A%20Possible%09approaches%0A%09to%20solvi ng...%29&In-Reply-To=%3C22C00783-6F76-4649-9EBA-F61001A25504%40shinkuro.com% 3E> Tue Feb 25 22:48:42 UTC 2014 * Previous message: [discuss] governments and rule of law (was: Possible approaches to solving...) <http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/002193.html> * Next message: [discuss] governments and rule of law (was: Possible approaches to solving...) <http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/002211.html> * Messages sorted by: [ date ] <http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/date.html#2194> [ thread ] <http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/thread.html#2194> [ subject ] <http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/subject.html#2194 > [ author ] <http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-February/author.html#2194> Marilyn, Even when you speak darkly you brighten my day :) Let me speak simply and directly on some topics that seem to recur. One topic is 1net and the Brazil meeting. Another is about direction and governance of ICANN. Many of us, including me, know these are quite separate topics, but both seem to be coming up repeatedly. With respect to 1net and the Brazil meeting, the motivation for these is to develop additional mechanisms and forums for dealing with the broad range of topics that fall generally under the rubric of Internet governance. The primary focus is not -- or, at least, should not be -- about ICANN, though I can well imagine there will be at least some focus on ICANN. Brazil is hosting the meeting in Sao Paulo, along with several other governments, and ICANN is merely a participant. Fadi and his team have been very helpful in the process, and they have done with the full support of the ICANN Board, but this is a form of public service that comes along with our main mission; it is not our main mission and we are not seeking to expand our purview. Meanwhile, with respect to the roles of the Supporting Organizations, Advisory Committees, Board and the staff in the decision process within ICANN, we remain committed to the multi-stakeholder model with emphasis on a bottom up process and open participation from all. The staff's role is to implement and execute. This is a large task. It requires a lot of resources, and, necessarily some judgment along the way, but the staff does not try to control the direction. The Board also sees itself as having a limited role. We have a legal obligation to oversee the finances and properly operation of the corporation and to make sure the rules are being followed. We are keenly aware that the bylaws appear to put us in the position of making the primary decisions regarding policy, but we know the real directions are set by the community. The Board watches to see processes are followed and that problems get solved, but we try to avoid doing the work ourselves. Some -- perhaps most -- of what makes various people uncomfortable is coming from the scaling up of ICANN's activities. When we all decided to move forward with new gTLDs, with IDNs, with DNSSEC, with outreach to each of the regions, and with many other initiatives, it was inevitable that the organization would grow and change. We also chose, in response to the changing political environment, to engage in the larger dialog about Internet governance as a whole. The ICANN you contributed to -- and we all owe you many thanks for your tireless efforts and many good things that have come from your efforts -- has grown, matured and become far more capable of dealing with the wide range of business, technical, policy and political issues in front of it than it used to be. ICANN is not yet done evolving. I don't know precisely what it will look like in the future, but I am pretty sure there will be changes. Some of these changes will be small, subtle changes; others may be more visible and seem dramatic. However, all of these changes will be motivated by the same enduring principles that ICANN's mission is to coordinate the unique identifiers for the Internet and ensure their security and stability, that ICANN must also foster competition and innovation, that ICANN must be transparent and accountable, and that ICANN has to be effective, efficient and empathic with the community it serves. Steve On Feb 25, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Marilyn Cade <marilynscade at hotmail.com <http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > wrote: > I will say [darkly] that that is not the ICANN I helped to contribute to, and it is not the ICANN that I support, but it seems to be the ICANN that the Board is enabling. > > Too many staff -- new-- don't even actually know what ICANN does, how it does it, or why. > > I think a 'hit pause' button is needed. > > M > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Feb 25, 2014, at 7:20 AM, "Avri Doria" <avri at acm.org <http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 24-Feb-14 23:41, Mike Roberts wrote: >>>> From a legal perspective, which may or may not be valued by those >>>> on this list, only an approved Board resolution represents the >>>> position of the organization >> >> From a legal perspective yes. And if ICANN is just another money making corporation, that is indeed the way it should be and it should only be the CEO and properly trained corporate mouthpeices speaking for it. >> >> But from the multistakeholder PoV we keep selling ourselves, that is not the way it should be, and not the fantasy most of us keep laboring under. >> >> Unfortunately ICANN is more the standard corporation with a CEO who has his own vision, with a Board that approves, instead of the multistakeholder organization where that vision directs their actions. That is, it may not be the organzation most of those volunteering in it think it is. >> >> So yeah, if it is not a multistakeholder organization led from the bottom-up, legally is all that counts. >> >> avri >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> discuss at 1net.org <http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >> http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss at 1net.org <http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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