<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div><br><div><div>On Sep 22, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
<div><br></div><div><div>as usual we will have 1 hour meeting with the board and they need topics we want to discuss in advance.</div><div>can you please share what you think we should discuss with them. Please write a brief introduction of the topic you want to suggest.</div><div><br></div><div>as starter I think we have those proposed by Avri :</div><div><ol><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Human Rights considerations at ICANN</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Discussion on outcomes to date from the ATRT2 report</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">What does multistakeholder bottom-up process mean at ICANN (this may be </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">related to one there on essence of ICANN.)</span></li></ol></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Works for me.</div><div><br></div>On 1) there will be further discussion of the COE paper and HR issues at NCUC’s Constituency Day meeting and there’s talk of trying to also organize a cross-community meeting of some sort Wednesday, but I’m not sure whether the latter will pan out in the time available. It’d be useful to engage the board in the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>On 2) it might be good to specify exactly which outcomes on non-outcomes to date we have a concern about, otherwise we could get sort of generic answers back about how of course they are following the process blah blah blah.</div><div><br></div><div>On 3) I think this is important because there’ve been comments from ICANN leadership about what does bottom up really mean, how important is it, isn’t it just a drag on the quick decision making needed, it’s not in the bylaws, etc., which is a bit worrying. It also ties directly to a debate that both Fadi and some board members have been starting in various contexts, particularly the SO-AC-SG chairs space, about “trust” and the weaknesses thereof revealed in the accountability process. Having a frank and open discussion of this would be useful, it’s on a lot of minds and I imagine the board will have parallel sorts of discussions with other groupings that day.</div><div><br></div><div>In terms of priority and time allocation I’d argue for 3 1 2 but others may have different preferences. Hopefully we don’t compress 3) too much or we’ll get stock answers rather than probing dialogue.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>