October 2025 - Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam

Agenda and Paper for Board Readiness Session
by kurt kjpritz.com Oct. 23, 2025

Oct. 23, 2025

Hi Terri and Nacho: I hope you’ve arrived safely in Dublin. Regarding the posting of materials for the Board Readiness briefing, I have attached: 1. a draft slide deck for posting. There might be minor edits. It is long but only to provide the first time audience (since this is an ICANN meeting) with background 2. the PDF of the Report. Please use this version as I found another three typos (one misspelling and two formatting goofs). The word version of the report is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIgezIPb7qgU2kBYFLZnZeuSAqWoMKxB/edit 3. the agenda I have posted the revised version of the report and the agenda to the team two times. I have had a discussion about the report and agenda with Justine, resulting in our agreement on both and have received the approval of Susan on the revised doc. There have been no other comments. I take responsibility that the team agrees with these material as they are. I hope you all can work together to get these posted. Best regards and see you soon, Kurt

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Materials for Council Working Session - Board Readiness
by kurt kjpritz.com Oct. 22, 2025

Oct. 22, 2025

Hi Terri and GNSO Secs: As we discussed, I am attaching an email to the Council (I no longer have mailing privileges) that provides and agenda and materials for the Council Work session on Board Readiness. It should have two PDFs attached to it, the Agenda and the Report If anyone on staff thinks that edits are in order or if the attachment should be turned into a link, that’s fine. Just make the edits and send on in your preferred format. Let me know if there are any questions. Thanks, Kurt

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Board Readiness - Council Working Session
by kurt kjpritz.com Oct. 11, 2025

Oct. 11, 2025

Hi Everyone: I hope everyone is doing well. Rumour has it (think Adele) that we will have 45 minutes to present and discuss our Recommendations in the Council Working Session in Dublin. Let me know what you think of this agenda. While I think the agenda speaks for itself: 1. The first item is intended to inspire the Council to read the report and conserve time for other items. 2. The second item is intended to provide clarifications and fill in the blanks where the report is not clear. (I’ve re-written one section that was screaming for clarity.) 3. The third item is intended to maintain momentum and implement some changes and improvements. I’m largely through preparation of a slide deck. I’d especially appreciate advice on the last agenda item. How can we set up an implementation discussion to encourage timely adoption and implementation of recommendations? Thanks everyone - agenda below: Kurt AGENDA Board Readiness Report I. Take questions on Methodology & Findings (10-15%) We’ve reviewed the Methodology in earlier sessions. Much of the material in the Findings will be restated in the Recommendations (although the language in the Findings is somewhat blunter and more straightforward). We ask the Council members to read and prepare questions in advance. II. Review of Recommendations (55-65%) The team developed six sets of Recommendations. We’ll briefly review each and stop for questions after each. We think the most meaningful Recommendations are toward the front, so it will be ok to spend more time on them. III. Implementation Planning (25-30%) Discuss areas that the Council might pursue to achieve timely implementation. These might include: a. A briefing for the Board as they have certain responsibilities b. An effort to revise existing procedures and Guidelines c. Building a revised PDP timeline, including resource requirements d. Staffing the effort to accomplishing the above – this might be GNSO only, GNSO and staff, or GNSO, staff and Board e. Set a completion target

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