All,

Please see below for the note sent to Steve Crocker.

Steve is willing to work with an agenda along these lines and has communicated as much to the board.

Jonathan

From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com]
Sent: 14 November 2013 11:52
To: Steve Crocker (steve@shinkuro.com)
Subject: ICANN board meeting with the GNSO Council - Sunday 17 October

Hi Steve,

We have not yet had the chance to discuss or share thoughts on this session.  At the past couple of meetings, the Council has suggested a few topics in advance we have discussed these.

You have been gracious in accepting these and it seems to have worked well.

Clearly, a major thread running through the forthcoming meeting is the rapidly changing international internet governance landscape and ICANN’s role and position in that.

The Council plans to discuss this with Fadi in addition to covering the Strategy Panels with Theresa Swineheart and possibly Fadi. The discussion with Fadi and Theresa will focus on:

1. A form of update on both above topics and

2. An attempt to better understand the implications for the ICANN bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model

Point 2 above is key to the way in which the GNSO functions within ICANN and therefore, in a sense, it is an attempt to understand the implications for or impacts on the GNSO.

I wonder if this same topic is something we could take further with the board?  You may feel that it is premature or otherwise problematic to do so.

In addition, and in any event, a couple of other ideas exist at this stage as follows:

1. A brief update from the Council as to key areas of recent development and work could be useful.

a. Progress with engaging with the GAC

b. Improvements to the PDP

c. Key areas of policy work underway

2. Input from the board SIC on

a. Structure and format of board initiated reviews

b. Implications for the prospective GNSO review

You may well feel that there are other key areas we should be covering and, if so, I’d welcome any input on that. 

Let me leave it at that for now.

Best wishes,

Jonathan