[PC-NCSG] GNSO DT new ICANN meeting strategy
Sam Lanfranco
lanfran
Thu Mar 5 16:20:29 EET 2015
David hits on the key issue in the scheduling of the time during
meetings: /"but don?t want the middle meeting, which is supposed to be
the SO/AC focussed meeting, to have less actual time for SO/AC work."/
Here is where we dig our heals in and insist on shaping the schedule. It
is our time, our labour, and our ICANN work to get done. What is
valuable is our time, what we do with it, and what we accomplish. A
meeting schedule is designed to facilitate that, and we are obliged to
insist (if necessary) that there be a sensible schedule.
As for shorter or longer revised meetings, I have no personal views
there other than to say the marginal costs of shorter are trivial,
basically hotel nights and per diems, probably less than 10% of an
anyhow smaller overall budget. As for smaller attendance, that is
important and I don't want that to fall off the table since it is
ICANN's, and our, gateway to greater presence and engagement with
ICANN's and our constituencies in currently under engaged regions.
An aside on costs: While some may see covering our travel and (some)
expenses as ICANN's /*perks to us*/, it is quite the opposite. That is
ICANN's cost so that ICANN can extract/receive /*perks from us*/ in the
form our labour, skills and wisdom in ICANN's multistakeholder process.
When my cousin sends a wine lobbyist to Washington D.C., he doesn't see
the travel, accommodations and per diem as "perks", they are the costs
to his operation of getting his (paid) labour in position to work. While
there are always "free riders" and volunteers who gain private benefit
(retainers, etc.) in any group like the ours, the core of the process is
us providing ICANN with perks.
Sam
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