Re: [council] Working together

[Dennis Jennings <Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie>]

Jonathan,

I will bring this request to the ccTLD Constituency.

But, may I suggest that this is the wrong approach.  I think that 
this approach will foster the continuing blizzard of e-mail 
discussion - most of which it is not necessary that everyone 
receive !

Rather I think that you should deliberately NOT be on these e-mail 
lists or attend teleconferences.  (You probably should attend 
physical meetings, if you can).  You should instead insist that the 
various Constituencies prepare, discuss, agree, and forward 
discussion papers of some substance for your information and 
consideration as a Board member.  This way you will assist the 
whole process settle down and become manageable and 
organised.  

Otherwise I fear that your proposal will simple encourage the chaos 
we currently all suffer - where the only way to be informed is to 
attempt to participate in ALL the e-mail discussions !

Just a suggestion
Dennis

P.S.  N.B.  You are of course not a "representative" of the DNSO 
on the Board 

Date sent:      	Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:24:11 -0400
From:           	Jonathan Cohen <jcohen@shapirocohen.com>
Subject:        	[council] Working together
To:             	council@dnso.org

> To the Names Council:
> 
> Now that the excitement over the election has died down somewhat, I again
> would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support.  
> 
> I wish, as a DNSO representative on the ICANN Board, to represent all
> constituencies equally.  To ensure that I am able to carry out this duty to
> the greatest extent possible, and to be sure that I have as clear a picture
> as possible of what is happening in each constituency, I would like to
> submit the following to you for your consideration:
> 
> 1)  I would request to be added to the mailing lists of each constituency
> so that I may continue to keep as up to date as possible on the issues and
> dialogues that are currently at the forefront of each constituency's agenda;
> 
> 2)  If possible, I would like to participate as an observer at meetings or
> teleconferences of the constituencies and the Names Council when I am
> available to do so.  If you can give me advance notice of your meetings, I
> will, whenever possible, attend  so that I can, hopefully, take back with
> me to the Board the specific current concerns and needs of the DNSO
> constituencies;
> 
> 3)  I will try to attend as many of the constituency meetings as I can in
> L.A., time permitting, however it will likely not be possible to attend
> them all.  I would therefore like to meet with as many of you in LA as
> possible, but with at least one NC rep from each constituency, possibly on
> Monday night, but in any event, prior to the Board meeting.  
> 
> I look forward to hearing from you and continuing the working relationship
> we have started to develop together on the Names Council.  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jonathan


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