19 January 2015

ICANN CCWG-Accountability Meeting Streamed Online, 19-20 Jan 2015

The ICANN CCWG-Accountability Face-to-Face Meeting on Monday and Tuesday (19-20 Jan 2015) in Frankfurt, Germany, will be operated with remote participation consistent with all of the meetings to date--the meeting will be open to anyone in the CCWG-Accountability (participants and mailing list observers)--the meeting will be streamed through Adobe Connect (see link below; with an audio line for those who can dial-in only). Transcripts of each meeting provided (usually within 24-48h after the call). The recordings, notes, and transcripts (both of chat and the call) are all downloadable on the Wiki on the relevant meeting page.

Relevant links: 

Adobe Connect Room for streaming/remote participation/observation: https://icann.adobeconnect.com/accountability/
(enter name, click enter)

Meeting pages for the F2F: https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=51414991

Wiki page for CCWG-Accountability:


DAY 1: Monday 19 January (9:00 – 18:00)
08:30 – 09:00: Coffee & Introductions by Chairs and Theresa Swinehart
09:00 - 09:50: Update on CWG (RFP 3B + synchronizing timelines)
09:50 – 10:40: Finalizing list of contingencies
10:40 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00: Informal Pitch introductions of "visions" regarding outcome of our group
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 14:50: Refining list and categories of stakeholders (documentation : PDF - DOCX)
14:50 – 15:40: Finalize wording on purpose of accountability (documentation : PDF - DOCX)
15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00: Finalize rest of scope & definition document (including independence) (documentation : PDF - DOCX)
17:00 – 17:45: Advisor engagement update, provision of (independent) legal advice (slides : PDF)
17:45 – 18:00 Summary of Day 1 and action items

DAY 2: Tuesday 20 January (8:00 – 17:00)
07:30 – 08:00: Coffee
08:00 – 09:40: Consensus building around WS1 definition
09:40 – 10:00: Coffee Break
10:00 – 12:45: identify candidate mechanisms to investigate within WS1
12:45 – 13:45: Lunch
13:45 – 15:25: Taking stock session (including discussion of potential Chair’s report)
15:25 – 15:45: Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00: Action items for initiating WS1 and preparation for Singapore
End at 17:00

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