[ALAC] Fwd: Re: SO-AC-SG HIGH INTEREST TOPIC SESSION @ ICANN 51 in Los Angeles - A Reminder

Tue Aug 26 20:09:00 UTC 2014

Dear ALAC,

as mentioned on today's ALAC conference call, the Monday in the ICANN
week will see the
holding of an SO-AC-SG High Interest Topic Session. As David Olive asks
below, please be so kind to make suggestions on topics that would be of
interest.

Suggestions were made of NetMundial follow-up and also Universal
Acceptance of TLDs.

Please be so kind to make more suggestions by Thursday when I'll
summarise our answer to David Olive.
Kindest regards,

Olivier

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Subject: 	Re: SO-AC-SG HIGH INTEREST TOPIC SESSION @ ICANN 51 in Los
Angeles - A Reminder
Date: 	Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:03:57 +0000
From: 	David Olive <david.olive at icann.org>
To: 	

Dear Community Leaders:

It’s been an unusually busy August so far and, understandably, I have
not received much feedback from you all on prospective topics for your
SO-AC High-Interest topic at the ICANN51 Public Meeting in Los Angeles. 

Certain topics, such as ICANN Accountability, the IANA Stewardship
Transition,  and new gTLD Directory Services (WHOIS), appear to be
covered by other session programming on Monday or elsewhere during the
week, so, additional topics are now needed for the potential session
discussion.

The staff meeting and programming team is giving me some more time to
collaborate with you on this session, and we should start identifying
some specific topics so that you have time to lead some conversations
within your communities over the next month in preparation for the LA
session discussion.

I’ve been able to extend the topic-brainstorming deadline to COB this
Thursday.  Please share any thoughts or ideas with me at your earliest
convenience.

Best,

David

David A. Olive
Vice President, Policy Development Support
General Manager, ICANN Regional Headquarters –Istanbul
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Direct Line: +90.212.381.8727 
Mobile:       + 1. 202.341.3611
Email:  david.olive at icann.org <mailto:david.olive at icann.org>
www.icann.org

From: David Olive <david.olive at icann.org <mailto:david.olive at icann.org>>
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2014 7:49 PM
To:
Subject: SO-AC-SG HIGH INTEREST TOPIC SESSION @ ICANN 51 in Los Angeles

Dear SO/AC/SG Leaders:

Thank you all for confirming your interest in proceeding with the
planning for an SO-AC High Interest Session in Los Angeles.  Working
with our staff Meeting Team colleagues, it appears that Monday in LA
will again offer the best window for the session.  I have informed the
ICANN 51 Steering Committee of the need for the session and we have
discussed the following scenario.

Monday programming will offer opportunities for community discussion on
a range of topics of high interest to the community.  We can count on
their being at least one session addressing the IANA Stewardship
Transition and another session addressing the ICANN Accountability
matter.  Heather has also noted the likelihood of a GAC request for a
session on Registration Data (WHOIS) issues.

As a result of this overall concept, we suggest planning to conduct a
session that highlights one or two topics of high community interest
_that are different_ from these three main topic areas.  It would be
helpful to have you share topic suggestion on this list over the next
week or so.  Staff will compile the list of all suggestion received by
25 August and then I’ll circulate the list of possibilities to all of
you for winnowing down.  My hope is that, via email, we can quickly
reach consensus on a couple of topics so that all of you will have the
opportunity to glean your community views to share during the session.

Logistically, we will plan to run the session largely like the previous
hot-topic session in Buenos Aires – recall the Brad White-led format.  I
am happy to get feedback from you on any improvements we can introduce
to that format previous format.

Looking forward to hearing your suggestion of topics.

Best regards,

David

David A. Olive
Vice President, Policy Development Support
General Manager, ICANN Regional Headquarters –Istanbul
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Direct Line: +90.212.381.8727 
Mobile:       + 1. 202.341.3611
Email:  david.olive at icann.org <mailto:david.olive at icann.org>
www.icann.org