Dear Work-Stream 1 Members, Enclosed you will the notes of your call held on Thursday, 4 July. Please note that they are available on your wiki page at: https://community.icann.org/display/ATRT2/ATRT2+WorkStream+1+2013.07.04+Tele... Thank you so much Very best Alice Work-Stream 1 Call 05 – Thursday, 4 July 2013 - No updates to SoIs. - Agenda adopted. - Review of Open Action Items: o Alan Greenberg to post materials pertaining to the GNSO’s discussion held on the original BGC response to the NCUC. Alan Greenberg will also post the BGC response that followed and will reference the recording and transcript of the discussion held within the GNSO. o Questions on 9.1.e PDP Ø Alan Greenberg will echo questions to CSG on full list. Ø Olivier Crépin-Leblond encouraged all to send questions to full list and noted that work would be conducted on this face-to-face in Durban if no questions circulated. Ø Fiona Alexander noted that the format used during the session with CSG was effective, i.e. 2 or 3 questions to kick off discussions, and that a full set of questions might not be needed as a result. Fiona requested that the following question be asked: do people believe subdivisions within the ICANN Community, GNSO etc help or hinder participation in the process? Ø Concerns that framing debate with too many questions might decrease participation. Ø Alan’s questions: Do you have concerns about ICANN’s overall transparency and accountability? Do you have issues that are specific to your group? o Olivier Crépin-Leblond noted improvement in ICANN multilingualism but raised concerns about capacity. Alan Greenberg stressed that funding is the issue and that ICANN has committed to fund that properly. Strategic decisions remain to be made and the status cannot be considered as complete. Issue to explore. Avri Doria recommended working group’s early involvement in language process. o No additional reading material to add. o Cross-cutting issues will be discussed face-to-face. - Documents added to organizational page: checklist, discussion of public comment process (material discussed + minutes) - Olivier Crépin-Leblond walked work-stream 1 Members through summaries of Excel document. Olivier will put this forward to the list. ---- Alice Jansen Strategic Initiatives Manager ICANN Rond Point Schuman 6, Bt.1 B-1040 Brussels, Belgium Office: +32 289 474 03 Mobile: +32 4 73 31 76 56 Skype: alice_jansen_icann Email: alice.jansen@icann.org<mailto:alice.jansen@icann.org>