Participants: Sebastien Bachollet, Seth Reiss, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, Sylvia Herlein, Tommi Karttaavi

Guests: C Langdon-Orr, Marilyn Cade (PSC)

Staff: M Langenegger, N Ashton-Hart

1 PSC presentation by Marilyn Cade

The President Strategic Committee (PSC) was established by a bylaw of the Board to examine strategic and provide advice to the ICANN Board
The PSC is interested especially in:
1. the international nature of ICANN
2. ICANN’s accountability mechanisms
3. ICANN’s legitimacy and stability
4. ensuring ICANN is not captured by any individual group

Several PSC outreach efforts have taken advantage of existing meetings. The PSC also held an open forum in Washington DC in 2008. The public met by the PSC made a number of comments: ICANN needs to significantly improve its translation resources and better inform and interact with the different communities as well as further internationalize its organization...

The PSC is now in the process of releasing a plan with the proposed changes. There will be a 30 day comment period and a further evolution document afterwards. This new PSC document will be published before the Mexico summit.

2 Documentation material for WG2 workshops:

PSC earlier publications (available in multiple languages):
a. The Transitional Action plan
b. Improving Institutional Confidence

At Large sources:

At-large has not previously specifically commented on the subject.
RALO documents or discussions on the topic at the RALO levels should be reported to the WG. Help from staff would be great in that respect.

Staff will list areas which have been widely of concern and comments with links to some of the proposals as well as excerpts to some of the text of proposals that have been made in respect of various areas of accountability and prevention from capture.
This will be done by Nick Ashton-Hart by Thursday 12 February.

3 Chair, Vice-Chairs and ‘rapporteur’:

Sebastien Bachollet was proposed by Vanda to be the Chair. The WG accepted this nomination.

Sylvia Herlein Leite was nominated and it was agreed by the WG to be one on the Vice-Chair.
A mail will be sent to the WG2 list to elect a rapporteur – preferably English native - and a second vice-chair – if possible, from the African region.

4 AOB

There is some updating of the participants list for WG2 as some from WG1 wish to join WG2 now that WG2 is multilingual. A Izumi will join WG3.

C Langdon-Orr remarked that the leads should receive some briefings on Adobe: the rapporteurs could share their lap top space and everyone could see the notes being taken in real time. The advantage of the adobe room was the voting and the putting of links tools for the chair and the vice-chairs once they received the administration rights by staff. Participants agreed to have their Adobe connect room permanently open until the summit was over.