Hi Rafik,,
It is good to know what happened already on this issue. Visibility is 
absolutely key and it looks that that has been a successful initiative. 
Tx you to all involved!  Is there anything more we could/should do to 
follow-up on this issue and help further advance visibility and 
coordination?

But I think my issue is different. It has to do with workflow. There is 
a lot of ICANN staff, they can support a huge amount of work, and ICANN 
is kicking off PDPs, public comments, implementation teams, review 
groups, study groups, engagement groups and more at a prodigious rate - 
ridiculous really. Even just on the policy side, it feels like we are in 
a car, someone has tied the accelerator down, and we are about to go off 
a cliff...

Best,
Kathy

On 2/26/2016 7:30 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote:
>
> Hi Kathy,
>
> If I can respond partly to that. the issue of increasing workload was 
> raised  more than 1 year ago by SO/AC leadership with Fadi and VPs 
> like David during their meetings , with regard of lack of visibility 
> and coordination of all ongoing processes with some initiated by 
> staff. Some effort (in addition to other initiatives on other issues) 
> started to compile the processes from SO/AC and trying to visualize 
> them giving an insight about workload.
>
> There was also some presentation in a session in singapore meeting 
> last year to take community feedback.  David is managing those 
> efforts . So I would expect he will give some updates about that. He 
> also regularly attends our joint session with board.
> I will try to find the material and share them if it helps.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
> On Feb 26, 2016 9:17 PM, "Kathy Kleiman" <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> 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,
>