Hi Yes the public interest research has been very internally oriented, pretty much surveying staff and docs. What will be needed next is a look at the world outside ICANN, how the concept has been employed in telecom and other sectors around the world, then think about whether any bits of that may be relevant by analogy etc. Frankly I think they should hire a couple hungry academics who do international telecom policy (not me), doing this properly will need a solidly researched information base. As mentioned on the last NCSG call, what’s been discussed is to roll out stuff after Dublin, e.g. Lauren’s research/survey of staff, set up a wiki space, broaden to invite community inputs Q4, then Q1 narrow it down and do a first stock taking meeting in Marrakech, then further community work Q2 toward possible agreement in some form at the LAC meeting in June. Re: NCSG-Board, to be honest I suspect this could be one of those short awkward conversations where Steve says “what exactly are you looking for us to say” and everyone fumbles around for a bit. I doubt the Board will have much depth to add at this point beyond what they had to offer when we asked about this at our Singapore meeting with them, but you never know…maybe try directing to it to particular members, e.g. Bruno…? Unfortunately, at the same time I have to attend the Euralo GA meeting, where we will talk about...the public interest…… Bill > On Sep 29, 2015, at 2:49 PM, Amr Elsadr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I’ve also been waiting to see what Nora’s team comes up with for quite some time, and what the next steps will be on this. My understanding, as per Nora’s briefing to the council, is that the research to date is limited to mapping out all the places within the ICANN-verse where the term “public interest” pops up. She was asking the GNSO council if there were any thoughts on more to include before publishing the results, but my feel of the conversation was that folks wanted to see what Nora came up with before deciding on the next steps. > > Thanks. > > Amr > >> On Sep 28, 2015, at 7:05 PM, Stephanie Perrin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Yes Nora briefed the GNSO, and I asked about getting access to her research. She said she would post a wiki, but they have not done any research outside ICANN yet, apparently. Makes one wonder how we actually determine "the public interest". >> Stephanie >> >> On 2015-09-28 12:30, Robin Gross wrote: >>> Can we ask the board how it is coming with its research in the "global public interest". I believe it was the annual mtg last where we asked the board about its understanding of the global public interest, how it determines, on what basis, etc. At that time, the board said it was just getting started on compiling some research that it would share and had hired Nora. So it would be great if we could have an update or further conversation on this concept, how it is determined and applies, etc. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Robin >>> >>> >>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> less than 3 weeks before Dublin meeting,need your input here :) >>>> >>>> Rafik >>>> >>>> 2015-09-21 7:04 GMT+09:00 Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]>: >>>> Hi everyone. >>>> >>>> As described below, we should agree on 3 topics we would like to discuss with the board at the session in dublin meeting. >>>> Please propose a topic and give some description. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Rafik >>>> >>>> Ps please fill out this doodle poll about your attendance of dublin meeting http://doodle.com/5umpi4cf2r2ue2dy >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: "Rafik Dammak" <[log in to unmask]> >>>> Date: Sep 14, 2015 9:00 PM >>>> Subject: [ICANN meeting] kick-off the preparation for ICANN meeting 53 in Dublin >>>> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> >>>> Cc: >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> we are just few weeks away from the next ICANN meeting in Dublin and we have to be ready for that. >>>> >>>> First thing is to start the discussion about the topics we want to discuss with the board during our joint meeting (for Dublin, it will scheduled in Wednesday morning instead of Tuesday as usual) >>>> >>>> Please share some topics for discussion and give some description to explain the rationale. we will try to shorten the list up to 3 topics and continue the discussion about those topics and how to present them in order to get interaction. >>>> >>>> Finally, please fill the doodle poll (here http://doodle.com/5umpi4cf2r2ue2dy)if you are going to attend the ICANN meeting. >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> >>>> Rafik >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> ********************************************************* William J. 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