[PC-NCSG] GNSO DT new ICANN meeting strategy
Stephanie Perrin
stephanie.perrin
Thu Mar 5 16:22:45 EET 2015
Well said. We are having similar issues in planning face to face
meetings for the PPSAI....
cheers SP
On 2015-03-05 9:17, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
> 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 of 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 that person's
> "perks", they are the costs to his operation of getting his (paid)
> labour in position to work. While there are always possibilities for
> "free riders" and volunteers who gain private benefit (retainers,
> etc.) from participation in any group like the ours, the core of the
> process is us providing ICANN with perks.
>
> Sam
>
>
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