[ALAC] Additional Agenda item for Board-ALAC meeting on Tuesday

[Alan Greenberg]

Here's a first stab.

ICANN in general:

Just getting to this stage has demonstrated a 
number of problems, that largest being the 
difficulty of the various parts of ICANN to work 
cooperatively. Perhaps there has been ill-will 
(or at least benign neglect in nurturing 
cooperation) but now there is increasingly, a 
genuine will to work together. But how to do it 
is VERY problematic. It will certainly be 
possible, but there is a real possibility that 
processes which are already cumbersome and 
time-consuming may become even more so. (Look at 
the new improved comment period, which has 
dangerously decreased the amount of time for 
constituency consultation AND elongated the overall period).

There is still a real danger of when other parts 
of ICANN disagree with you, deciding that they are simply wrong!

GNSO:

Within the GNSO, things may get interesting. A 
structure that allowed (to use crude words) three 
SGs plus NomCom appointees to gang up on one SG 
and adopt policy may not work when the two 
contracted SG get harder to tell apart (vertical 
integration). How the RySG will adapt to having 
perhaps hundreds of members instead of a handful 
may be a challenge. Overall, getting consensus 
within the GNSO is difficult now. The new changes 
may well push it past the point of being effective.

WGs have shown problems now since they are easily 
overwhelmed by large numbers of participants who 
are financially motivated to participate. This is only likely to get worse.

Alan


At 12/03/2012 10:59 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>Dear ALAC members,
>
>I have received one additional agenda item which the Board has asked to
>discuss, in addition to our agenda items:
>
>  1. Views on CWGs
>  2. Views on the new gTLDs Program and Objection Procedure
>
>
>Please be so kind to find the new question below:
>
>"What will be in your view the medium-term impact of the new gTLD
>program on the structure of ICANN in general, and challenges it brings
>to the gNSO, its constituencies and policy development process. What are
>the potential issues and how to anticipate them?"
>
>
>You have the night to think about this. See you in La Paz C, at 8:30am!
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Olivier
>
>--
>Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
>http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
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