Board Topics

• What are your key priorities for ICANN work in 2022, how do these priorities help achieve ICANN’s common objectives as expressed in the FY 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, and how do you see Community, Board and org moving forward together on a way to achieve these?
• If any, what suggestions would you have to enhance ICANN’s effectiveness and efficiency with regards to the process of implementation after adoption of a PDP or Review recommendations?

At-Large Responses

1) Volunteer Retention to Strengthen the MSM, diversity and inclusiveness to support the development of quality At-Large advice and public comment  At-Large Lead: Marita Moll  (10 mins + discussion)

• Has the Board ever considered a project to establish some indicators of volunteer value to the MSM enterprise?
• Categories and the toolkit envisioned through the DEI consultant are welcomed, but we ask how this will actually lead to more end-user volunteers who are willing to work at ICANN because they see their work is valued?

2) Improving Policy Development Processes - ensuring that At-Large volunteers remain an active and representative part of the ICANN community  At-Large Lead: Joanna Kulesza (10 mins + discussion)

• How might the Board ensure a balance of resources available to volunteers vs professionals in ICANN PDPs who do their work in ICANN as part of their day job?
• The need for an holistic review (Sebastien Bachollet)

3) Importance to At-Large of the Prioritisation Activity - At-Large Lead: Cheryl Langdon-Orr (10 mins + discussion)

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Sent on behalf of Maarten Botterman, Chair, ICANN Board of Directors 

Dear Constituency and Stakeholder Groups Chairs,

*Please reply no later than Friday 18th February 2022*

First and though we are already well settled into 2022, let me wish you All a Very Happy New Year !

I believe that we are all hopeful that this year will see the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and allow us to finally meet face-to-face again. I can barely believe that it has been two years since the Board had to take the difficult decision to turn ICANN67 into a fully virtual meeting. We were far from imagining then that ICANN73 would still be virtual. Yet, it is and we are here, all of us, united and committed to make it successful. 

At this point in time, our hope is to be able to gather in The Hague, in June, as planned. And right now The Netherlands is in a partial lock-down which makes it difficult to further preparations. Our continued aim is to organize hybrid and in-person meetings, in the best conditions, as soon as it will be possible. We will communicate on the status of those plans based on health and safety developments. 

Meanwhile, we are very much looking forward to meeting with you soon and in preparation for our first meeting of 2022, ICANN73 (7-10 March), the Board and I would like to propose the following topics for discussion during our time together: 

• What are your key priorities for ICANN work in 2022, how do these priorities help achieve ICANN’s common objectives as expressed in the FY 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, and how do you see Community, Board and org moving forward together on a way to achieve these?
• If any, what suggestions would you have to enhance ICANN’s effectiveness and efficiency with regards to the process of implementation after adoption of a PDP or Review recommendations?

 

We are now well-used to the suggestion to dedicate half of our time together to discuss this topic and half the time to discuss the topic of your choice or answer the questions you might have. 

We would therefore like to invite you to submit your topic of interest and/or questions (please consider the limited time) to our Board Operations team (board-ops-team@icann.org) no later than Friday 18 February 2022.

 Your suggested questions and/or topic for discussion will be published and circulated in the Policy digest, as always, which will facilitate transparency and allow the groups to deepen their own understanding of their peers’ point of views on different issues.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts, questions or topics of interest and to exchange with you constructively and virtually.

Best regards,

Maarten Botterman
Chair, ICANN Board of Directors

ALAC Questions/Topics:

1) Volunteer Retention to Strengthen the MSM, diversity and inclusiveness to support the development of quality At-Large advice and public comment-  At-Large Lead: Marita Moll  (10 mins + discussion)

2) Improving Policy Development Processes - the need of an holistic review - volunteers under pressure with the workload - At-Large Lead: Joanna Kulesza (Back up: Sebastien) (10 mins + discussion)

3) Importance to At-Large of the Prioritisation Activity - At-Large Lead: Cheryl Langdon-Orr (Back up: Jonathan Zuck) (10 mins + discussion)

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Topic: Emerging technologies and their impact on ICANN 

Question: How do you view current developments in relation to new technologies such as the decentralized domain name system protocol that is the gateway to web 3.0 and its impact on ICANN domain name system? (Hadia)

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• ALAC/GAC Meeting (opens in sub-page)

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• ALAC/GNSO Council Meeting (opens in sub-page)

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• At-Large Wrap Up Meeting