Organizational Call — 26 August 2014 from 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
Summary notes
Outcomes
- Leadership: Public Expert Group (PEG) nominates Brian Cute as their nominal group leader.
- Timeline: PEG members agree that they would like to select the advisors in time for ICANN 51 in LA.
- Privacy Concerns: PEG members agree that the discussions about candidates qualifications’ will be private, similar to proceeding of a job search or NomCom.
- Identification of candidates:
- Experts would like to put out a call for candidates so that individuals can apply and that community members will have the opportunity to provide names for consideration. This Notice needs to go out within the next 48h and will remain open for 2 weeks.
- PEG will accept nominations of candidates but will ask the person making the nomination to confirm the candidate’s willingness serve.
- In the meantime, the experts will start compiling names of potential candidates and will consider names that ICANN staff have compiled over the past months (estimated to be around 15 names).
- Remuneration: Experts agreed that preference is for volunteer position with expenses covered. They realize that they might need to consider remuneration but preference is volunteer.
Action Items (for ICANN Staff)
- Draft Call for Candidates — Distribute draft to PEG today for editing and comment, with planned posting for tomorrow, 8/27/14.
- Provide names from ICANN — Staff will send PEG list of names received by the end of the week.
- Finalize next meeting — Staff will work with schedules for closed meeting during week of IGF.
Recording
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