[gnso-igo-ingo] RE: Durban Public Discussion Session Format

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks pretty interesting to me.  I am sorry that I will probably have to miss 
the one on Wednesday so that I can attend the Finance session.

Chuck

From: owner-gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Brian Peck
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:01 PM
To: GNSO IGO INGO
Cc: Marika Konings; Mary Wong; David Olive
Subject: [gnso-igo-ingo] Durban Public Discussion Session Format

Dear WG Members,

First of all, for those of you traveling to Durban, wish everyone safe travels 
and looking forward to seeing and working with you during the Meeting.

With regard to the IGO/INGO public discussion session in Durban, as we 
discussed during our last WG call, we have been provided the opportunity to 
utilize XPLANE during the Durban Meeting, an outside professional meeting 
facilitation and mediation provider.

After consulting with them on our agreed-upon objectives including having an 
interactive dialogue with the community, we have asked XPLANE to facilitate 
this session for us with a different format from the moderated discussion we 
originally envisioned.  Please find attached a brief power point presentation 
from XPLANE on how we will host this session.  As you can see, the substance of 
the four issues/questions and relevant propositions the WG agreed upon remain 
the same - however, in order to encourage feedback and discussion with the 
community, we will have the community and WG members present break up into four 
groups to rotate and discuss each of the four issues/propositions in separate 
12 minute segments, with a read-out period at the end.  Each issue "station" 
will have an XPLANE professional and ICANN staff present to facilitate 
discussion on that issue.  The four staff members will be Marika Konings, Mary 
Wong, Berry Cobb and myself.  The session will begin with an introduction and 
summary of the issues being considered by the WG.  The attached presentation 
from XPLANE will hopefully make this explanation more clear.

We are also planning to have XPLANE attend the F2F WG meeting on Monday and do 
the same exercise with the WG members, which will give the WG another 
opportunity to see the idea behind the format and allow for any small tweaks 
that are deemed necessary. Given that the objective of the public discussion 
session is to facilitate community feedback and an interactive discussion to 
help guide the WG in reaching consensus on a set of policy recommendations, we 
hope that everyone will find trying this new approach worthwhile.  Please let 
us know if you have any questions, thanks.

Best Regards,

Brian

Brian Peck
Policy Director
ICANN