[ALAC] Fwd: [council] Theresa Swineheart meeting with the GNSO

[Alan Greenberg]

>From: Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson at afilias.info>
>To: <council at gnso.icann.org>
>Subject: [council] Theresa Swineheart meeting with the GNSO
>Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:55:27 +0100
>
>
>From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jonathan.robinson at ipracon.com]
>Sent: 21 June 2014 16:54
>To: Theresa Swinehart (theresa.swinehart at icann.org)
>Cc: Diana Middleton (diana.middleton at icann.org); 
>fadi.chehade at icann.org; Cassia Oliveira (cassia.oliveira at icann.org)
>Subject: Meeting with the GNSO
>
>Hello Theresa,
>
>The Council has today discussed our planned 
>meetings with you, Fadi, the GDD and the ICANN Board tomorrow.
>We will be meeting with you first, immediately ahead of our meeting with Fadi.
>
>What we would like to cover with you is a 
>discussion on NTIA Stewardship Transition, ICANN 
>Accountability and the Strategy Panels.
>We are happy to have any of your remarks, 
>updates or points on the current status of these 
>key areas you have taken responsibility for.
>
>Some specific questions / points were raised in 
>relation to these and the points are laid out in bullet format below.
>
>·         NTIA Stewardship
>o   Why was the GNSO Comment on a Cross 
>Community acknowledged or responded to?
>o   Apparently a deliberate oversight?
>o   Also what about scope? No response to the comments on scope?
>Note: Most scope comments indicated accountability as essential and linked
>o   Key changes have been made to the work BUT 
>if scope is limited, they are of limited value.
>·         Accountability
>o   Interdependency with transition is key
>o   Community wide belief in robust 
>accountability needed ahead of NTIA transition
>o   If not interdependent / why not?
>·         Strategy Panels
>o   Top-down / imposed panels.
>o   Staff free to dip in and out of these as they please and are doing so
>Noting that some material (being re-used) is not accurate.
>o   No normal public comment
>
>o   The significant investment in this
>Thank-you for agreeing to meet with us and for considering this detail.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>
>Jonathan
>
>