Dear Kathy,

I think it is an excellent question that deserves closer look and 
discussion with David Olive. Some food for thought for development of 
your proposal:
* just the number of staff does not guarantee effectiveness for the 
particular WG
** the exploding number of separate wikis spaces for all those new 
initiatives duplicates, if not dilutes information and we are about to 
need an internal search engine and relational data base of documents 
that i don’t see in the Budget
*** as the CCWG ACCt as assumed power parity between all SO/ACs, it is 
worth asking if they all have information parity and all can work based 
on a level playing field in terms of access to information
**** but under access to information I don´t mean only to have access 
to the wiki-spaces and some staff helping to coordinate calls and basic 
drafts
***** some recent initiatives have had access to enormous outside 
resources dire cutely contracted by ICANN Staff (lawyers on 
accountability, regional DNS market studies for Middle East, LatAm and 
Africa, but also Nielsen and Analysis for the competition review) and 
I´m not sure there is a plan that all this investment is going to be 
accesible at the fingertips of every person who is not a dedicated 
volunteer and has spent at least 5 years in the ICANN world.
*********……….

Cheers


Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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On 26 Feb 2016, at 6:16, Kathy Kleiman wrote:

> I would like to talk with them about work flow. ICANN has hired 100 
> policy staffers in the last year and has an enormous new capability 
> for work flow, but we do not. There is no way to keep up with what is 
> "in the queue" and "coming down the pike."
>
> I would expressly invite David Olive (as lead of ICANN's Policy 
> Development Support Team) to be part of this discussion as well. How 
> do we make the work load reasonable if we want the volunteer, 
> multistakeholder model to continue? Is it based on ICANN capacity or 
> stakeholder capacity?
>
> Best,
> Kathy
>
> On 2/26/2016 6:10 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> One regular event at ICANN meetings is that we get to meet the Board,
>> talk with them about and ask them whatever we want.
>>
>> The Board would, however, like to know in advance what we're going
>> to ask them, so they could better prepare for it.
>>
>> If you have suggestions for topics for our meeting with the Board in
>> Marrakech, please let me know as soon as possible (feel free to post
>> to the list or me directly, as you prefer).
>>
>> Thank you,
>>