April 2025 - Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam

REMINDER | Meeting Invite | Staff panel interview with Eleeza Agopian, Marika Konings, and Caitlin Tubergen and the GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team (Jen and Bruna) | Tuesday, 29 April 2025
by Terri Agnew May 5, 2025

May 5, 2025

Dear all, Please see the join information below for the staff panel interview with Eleeza Agopian, Marika Konings, and Caitlin Tubergen and the GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team (Jen and Bruna), taking place on Tuesday, 29 April 2025 at 16:00 UTC for 60 minutes. Join Zoom Meeting https://icann.zoom.us/j/96611661142?pwd=K2VpaHlzNkNuY1J6YzRYcW1sd0VjUT09 Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: Z4B3SUR!U& One tap mobile +16699006833,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: 0505103780 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/actl7q9Q9B Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/PKWfBg Thank you. Kind regards, Kind regards, Terri Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Post Call | Board Readiness Small Team | Interview with Staff Panel | 29 April 2025
by Julie Bisland April 29, 2025

April 29, 2025

Dear all, Please see the link below to access the zoom recording for the Interview with staff panel (Eleeza Agopian, Marika Konings, and Caitlin Tubergen) and the GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team held on Tuesday, 29 April 2025 at 16:00 UTC. Zoom recording link: https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/FO9cDumDh6rDe1c3786Q99UVSVFCVlhJvxUTaS72ombP… Thank you! Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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**15-MINUTE REMINDER** Meeting Invite | Staff panel interview w/Eleeza Agopian, Marika Konings, & Caitlin Tubergen and the Board Readiness Small Team (Jen/Bruna) | Tuesday, 29 April 2025
by Julie Bisland April 29, 2025

April 29, 2025

**15-MINUTE REMINDER** Dear all, Please see the join information below for the staff panel interview with Eleeza Agopian, Marika Konings, and Caitlin Tubergen and the GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team (Jen and Bruna), taking place on Tuesday, 29 April 2025 at 16:00 UTC for 60 minutes. Join Zoom Meeting https://icann.zoom.us/j/96611661142?pwd=K2VpaHlzNkNuY1J6YzRYcW1sd0VjUT09 Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: Z4B3SUR!U& One tap mobile +16699006833,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: 0505103780 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/actl7q9Q9B Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/PKWfBg Thank you. Kind regards, Kind regards, Terri Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Board readiness next steps
by Caitlin Tubergen April 29, 2025

April 29, 2025

Hi Kurt and Small Team Members: We have a few updates for you. Re: EPDP Interview Statuses: * Thank you for updating Avri and Chris's notes. The Google docs have been sent to them individually, and they have been asked to provide edits by Friday, if possible. * Despite several attempts, we haven't received a response from Brian King, so we propose to close out this interview attempt unless anyone objects. * There is one remaining interview for EPDP P1 and P2, and that is with a panel of ICANN staff that supported either one or both phases. This is scheduled for next Tuesday at 16:00 UTC. I don't believe the small team has prepared specific questions for staff, so this may be worth thinking about beforehand. (I'm sure staff would also appreciate some draft questions in advance. Here are the WG and Board questions in case they are helpful): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r09F17K87SLrRB60gkRHylihrH-zCPC2o_3eP6_… Re: Notes from Interviews: Here are the notes from the interviewees, minus board members. We will include the board members in these folders once they have approved the notes: EPDP Phase 1: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bMd2Z5oxoorgtxAmcHkyFv7T5HaINYxz EPDP Phase 2: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/195y2p2AtJ_KZZSe9Mh_xBeCJlw3Ks2rE Re: Findings/Recommendations: Thank you for the suggestion to draft initial findings/recommendations from the interviews conducted to date. It makes sense to review the full set of EPDP (RegData) interviews before proceeding with SubPro interviews since the EPDP interviews are fresher at this point. Considering what the small team's findings are up to this point will likely help everyone better prepare for any future interviews or consider if updates are needed to the methodology. We hope this is helpful. Please let us know if we can provide additional assistance. Kind regards, John and Caitlin -- Hi Caitlin, John and everyone: We’ve essentially come to the end of our round of interviews. “Essentially” because we are still trying to arrange an interview with Brian King. If that fails, I think we will close out thi phase without an IPC interview. While we arrange for the SubPro round of interviews, I think we should: ONE: Touch up the questions a bit. For instance, the question on surprise, first asked generally about all recommendations, should then be directed a bit, asking questions regarding recommendations the Board didn’t understand, stated were violative of Bylaws, were too expensive, were difficult to implements written, and so on Please suggest amendments to questions for the SubPro interviews. I’ll come back to this group with my own suggestions. TWO (most importantly): I think we should draft our findings / recommendations, based on interviews to date. I’ll create a draft, but please prepare your bullet points (which should include authority, i.e., point to interview responses from which you drew your conclusions). For this, I think I will read the notes from the interviews, rather than the summaries. It is up to you to choose your source material. Caitlin or John, could you re-point me to the wiki where the notes are kept? (I should say re-point me to that. THREE: There are a couple interviewees I’d like to add as detached, objective, yet active members: Christa Taylor (who led one of the small teams created, and Marc Trachtenberg, who was dispassionate and clear in his opinions of issues and the process. Both wanted to move the process forward. Let me know if you disagree; I will take that constructively. (Actually, going down the list of participants, there are a lot of good candidates. . I hope everyone finds this as constructive direction. Please let me know if you have something additional or an amendment. Best regards, Kurt

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Board Readiness, next steps
by kurt kjpritz.com April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025

Hi Caitlin, John and everyone: We’ve essentially come to the end of our round of interviews. “Essentially” because we are still trying to arrange an interview with Brian King. If that fails, I think we will close out thi phase without an IPC interview. While we arrange for the SubPro round of interviews, I think we should: ONE: Touch up the questions a bit. For instance, the question on surprise, first asked generally about all recommendations, should then be directed a bit, asking questions regarding recommendations the Board didn’t understand, stated were violative of Bylaws, were too expensive, were difficult to implements written, and so on Please suggest amendments to questions for the SubPro interviews. I’ll come back to this group with my own suggestions. TWO (most importantly): I think we should draft our findings / recommendations, based on interviews to date. I’ll create a draft, but please prepare your bullet points (which should include authority, i.e., point to interview responses from which you drew your conclusions). For this, I think I will read the notes from the interviews, rather than the summaries. It is up to you to choose your source material. Caitlin or John, could you re-point me to the wiki where the notes are kept? (I should say re-point me to that. THREE: There are a couple interviewees I’d like to add as detached, objective, yet active members: Christa Taylor (who led one of the small teams created, and Marc Trachtenberg, who was dispassionate and clear in his opinions of issues and the process. Both wanted to move the process forward. Let me know if you disagree; I will take that constructively. (Actually, going down the list of participants, there are a lot of good candidates. . I hope everyone finds this as constructive direction. Please let me know if you have something additional or an amendment. Best regards, Kurt

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Finalizing Notes for Avri and Chris Interviews
by John Emery April 15, 2025

April 15, 2025

Hello Board Readiness Small Team, I know for both former Board member interviews with Avri and Chris we had a few people taking notes and reviewing them. I wanted to ensure that we have the notes updated by COB Friday 11 April, so that I can send the notes out to each of them individually for review. If you could please complete your review and consolidation of notes by this time I can send these off. Currently we have an open query on item 6 for the Avri interview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/192JUILNruvj9cZsgoJ3OYN4y7A4fCDErPu_Yv5J… Here are the notes for the Chris interview today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X2OS_FlQM1HMQZTvEGvDEw3RKfHOyuChNCDUaDS… Thank you for your updates to these documents. All the best, John R. Emery, Ph.D. Policy Development Support Senior Specialist Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org>

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Post Call | Board Readiness Small Team | Interview with Avri Doria | 01 April 2025
by Devan Reed April 13, 2025

April 13, 2025

Dear all, Please see the link below to access the zoom recording for the Interview with Avri Doria and Board Readiness Small Team call held on Wednesday, 01 April 2025 at 21:00 UTC. Zoom recording link: https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/IKb8jBB6SLFNpZ_pzKTFUAtGQ8sRJasvxTqaPN52rNbO… Thank you! Kind regards, Devan Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Post Call | Board Readiness Small Team | Interview with Chris Disspain | 08 April 2025
by Julie Bisland April 8, 2025

April 8, 2025

Dear all, Please see the link below to access the zoom recording for the Interview with Chris Disspain and Board Readiness Small Team held on Tuesday, 08 April 2025 at 13:00 UTC. Zoom recording link: https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/kJwkTxPie-uCwhh6us2zIlLo92gC4C_0fZVBu1kiH21D… Thank you! Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Meeting Invite | Staff panel interview with Eleeza Agopian, Marika Konings, and Caitlin Tubergen and the GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team (Jen and Bruna) | Tuesday, 29 April 2025
by Terri Agnew April 8, 2025

April 8, 2025

Dear all, Please see the join information below for the staff panel interview with Eleeza Agopian, Marika Konings, and Caitlin Tubergen and the GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team (Jen and Bruna), taking place on Tuesday, 29 April 2025 at 16:00 UTC for 60 minutes. Join Zoom Meeting https://icann.zoom.us/j/96611661142?pwd=K2VpaHlzNkNuY1J6YzRYcW1sd0VjUT09 Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: Z4B3SUR!U& One tap mobile +16699006833,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: 0505103780 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/actl7q9Q9B Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/PKWfBg Thank you. Kind regards, Kind regards, Terri Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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**15-MINUTE REMINDER** Meeting Invite - Chris Disspain Interview with GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team / Tuesday, 08 April 2025
by Julie Bisland April 8, 2025

April 8, 2025

**15-MINUTE REMINDER** Dear all, Please see the join information below for the Interview with Chris Disspain and Board Readiness Small Team taking place on Tuesday, 08 April 2025 at 13:00 UTC for 60 minutes. Join Zoom Meeting https://icann.zoom.us/j/96611661142?pwd=K2VpaHlzNkNuY1J6YzRYcW1sd0VjUT09 Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: Z4B3SUR!U& One tap mobile +16699006833,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: 0505103780 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/actl7q9Q9B Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/PKWfBg Thank you. Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO From: Julie Bisland <julie.bisland(a)icann.org> Date: Monday, March 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM To: "gnso-board-readiness-smallteam(a)icann.org" <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam(a)icann.org>, Chris Disspain <chris.disspain(a)identity.digital> Cc: GNSO-Secs <gnso-secs(a)icann.org> Subject: REMINDER-UPDATED DOODLE-PLEASE COMPLETE / Doodle Poll - Chris Disspain Interview with GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team NOTE: The doodle poll has been adjusted. If you completed the first doodle, please see the update and make new selections. Dear all, Please complete the doodle below to schedule an interview with Chris Disspain and the GNSO Council Board Readiness Small Team. Doodle: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/aO6lLrge Thank you. Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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