Questions to the Board in ICANN60

[William Drake]

Hi

> On Oct 5, 2017, at 01:39, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> while the questions are about getting some answers from board with the risk that we dont elicit a meaningnful discussion, do we have other topcis we would like to share with board and present our positions? for exmaple GDPR, to share our perspective that may be missed while there are several ongoing initiatives. 

I tend to agree that some of the questions that have been discussed may not elicit substantive conversations on matters of specific interest from a noncommercial standpoint.   Asking about Ombudsman (not an unique CS issue) would probably get a defense of the Ombudsman; the NomCom would get a “wait until after the review” response; Puerto Rico will be discussed elsewhere, etc.  Maybe the Consumer Safeguards Director item. But yes, something on GDPR would be sensible esp. given the difficulties of getting a CS word into prior conversations.  Something probing on the revisiting of the closed generics issue or even Amazon could also be good if it’s not redundant with other conversations already happening in AD. 

Bill

> On Oct 4, 2017, at 12:49, Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
> 
> Looks like we've got six question candidates now, we should pick two
> (abbreviated here to get a short list for initial weeding):
> 
> 
> (1) Ombudsman performance and monitoring
> 
> This looks like a good question to me. It could also work as GNSO
> question, perhaps some councillor could suggest it to the council?
> 
> (2) NomCom appointment imbalance between CSG and NCSG
> 
> This could also work, although it'd take a bit of care in how it's
> played (should we go for all-or-nothing, i.e., stakeholder group
> equality 3-3 at all costs, or consider settling for a compromise
> of 3-2 with one-per-constituency plan).
> This one would not work as a council question, I think.
> 
> (3) Why should the Consumer Safeguards Director be asking the
> Community what he should be doing
> 
> This is another good question, though one that probably would not fly
> if offered to the council (might be worth a shot though).
> 
> (4) Why the ICANN Board cannot take time to send representatives at
> RIR meetings
> 
> This I think has already been answered.
> 
> (5) What'll happen with Puerto Rico
> 
> This one will probably be answered before Abu Dhabi (and decided
> by the staff rather than the Board).
> 
> (6) Are there plans of other efforts where ICANN board becomes more
> approachable by regional community members
> 
> This might work but is perhaps too easy, not so likely to elicit
> a useful response.
> 
> 
> So my tentative pick would be 1 and 3, but if possible try first
> get the council take 1, in which case we could substitute 2 or 4.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen


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