All, We are still working on this request. I do not want to respond prematurely, as there are several options to consider. Because of how little time we have had to explore this, I would like to propose that the Council consider a friendly amendment. Would the Council be willing to consider the following : RESOLVED that the Council asks staff to determine the costs associated with audiocasting all GNSO Council teleconference meetings (in addition to being recorded) so that members of the community can listen in real time. Staff is asked to provide this information to the Council prior to its meeting on 15 July 2010. Thanks, Liz From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Gomes, Chuck Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:34 PM To: Caroline Greer; Rafik Dammak Cc: William Drake; council@gnso.icann.org Subject: RE: [council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings Staff will try to get some rough cost estimates of a couple alternative ways of doing this before our meeting on the 23rd. In particular, Liz has sent a request to the ICANN IT department. Chuck From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Caroline Greer Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:23 AM To: Rafik Dammak Cc: William Drake; council@gnso.icann.org Subject: RE: [council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings Thanks Rafik (and Bill also). I have no clue about the costs associated with such things so I was just trying to get a handle on it. Sounds like a very low level cost from what you both say. Kind regards, Caroline. From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Rafik Dammak Sent: 15 June 2010 16:16 To: Caroline Greer Cc: William Drake; council@gnso.icann.org Subject: Re: [council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings Hi Caroline, I was active in WG about remote participation for Internet Governance Forum, and my understanding is that cost wasn't a barrier for setup either audiocast or videocast. I am even in contact with team from Politechnico Torino which help IGF secretariat to setup video and audio streaming for each IGF open consultation and they only request a reliable bandwidth Internet connection. Rafik 2010/6/16 Caroline Greer <cgreer@mtld.mobi<mailto:cgreer@mtld.mobi>> Many thanks Rafik. Can we define ‘not so expensive’? Caroline. From: Rafik Dammak [mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com<mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com>] Sent: 15 June 2010 16:08 To: Caroline Greer Cc: William Drake; council@gnso.icann.org<mailto:council@gnso.icann.org> Subject: Re: [council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings Hi Caroline, audiocast is different to what as councilors we use for confcall. it is just classic audio streaming and it is not so expensive to be setup. Regards Rafik 2010/6/15 Caroline Greer <cgreer@mtld.mobi<mailto:cgreer@mtld.mobi>> Bill, Do you know if we have a cost estimate for the set-up of real-time audio calls? I think we might need that information in order to consider the motion. Thanks, Caroline. -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org<mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org> [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org<mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org>] On Behalf Of William Drake Sent: 15 June 2010 10:03 To: GNSO Council List Subject: [council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings Hello, In light of the bit of conversation over the past couple days concerning the relationship between Council members and their SGs, the ATRT process and our pending meeting with them, and internal discussions in NCSG, I hear by make the following motion. MOTION ON ENHANCING THE TRANSPARENCY OF GNSO COUNCIL MEETINGS WHEREAS the Affirmation of Commitments mandates that ICANN processes be made as transparent as possible; WHEREAS the GNSO Council seeks to promote broad community awareness of and engagement in GNSO activities; WHEREAS the GNSO Council is a management team whose elected members represent their respective Stakeholder Groups in a manner determined by those Stakeholder Groups; WHEREAS this representation function would be enhanced if Stakeholder Group members were able to listen in real time to Council meetings; and WHEREAS it would be impractical to open the GNSO Council meeting teleconference facility to Stakeholder Group members; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT: RESOLVED that beginning in July 2010, all GNSO Council teleconference meetings will be audiocast (in addition to being recorded) so that members of the community can listen in real time. *********************************************************** William J. 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