Fellow Council
Members,
You may recall I
discussed with some of you in Brazil as well as with staff the idea of seeing if
there were some of the 24 recommendations in the LSE GNSO review that were ones
that would meet with universal agreement on Council. Having reviewed the list
again I would now like to make such a proposal.
The attached list of
9 of the 24 recommendations are ones that I am guessing we would all categorise
as either:
- blindingly obvious
to do (eg web site improvement)
- seem like a good
idea (eg annual policy plan)
- what we have been
asking for for years (eg funded travel).
Indeed many of the
items are already in ICANN plans (see list). A kick-start with
Council endorsement will be helpful.
(The list
is NOT the full set of recommendations supported by the BC. That list is
longer but we believe that the other recommendations need to be
either:
- discussed
more,
- considered
together,
- considered with
the Board governance committee,
before we can reach
a view as Council).
However, small steps
are always good to show progress so would you be kind enough to indicate if
indeed you DO support this short list of the 9 easy wins ?
If there are any
items you do not support, just say so with a brief explanation, and I will
take them off the list: by definition they would not be easy
wins!
That should leave us
with a set of 9 or less of which we can say Council supports immediate
implementation. That will mean in most cases staff do work and return to Council
with a worked out proposal.
I hope you agree
this is a good idea to demonstrate Council's enthusiasm for
self-improvement.
Philip