Hello Carlos and everyone,

Thanks so much for the kind words – as I mentioned, this is still a draft document so we welcome your suggestions for clarifications and improvements. The plan is that this document will also eventually feed into some of the other PDP Improvements work.

Your specific point about the linkage between a group and its members, especially as it relates to the GNSO Council, is an interesting one. There’s currently no requirement that Council members have to be part of any particular type of group, so maybe we are assuming too much about what people, especially newcomers, know (or do not) about the Council’s role vis-a-vis that of a Drafting Team, a Working Group and so on. We can look into adding a link to the relevant GNSO operating procedures, e.g. the PDP Manual and Working Group Guidelines, perhaps via a footnote saying something like “For specific information about how the GNSO Council functions in relation to these structures and mechanisms, see [document].”

One additional entry that your email caused us to think about is possibly adding another entry for “Council liaison”, which is when a Council member is appointed to serve as a liaison between the Council and a Working Group. That may help reinforce the point above as well.

Thanks again, and we hope this document continues to be useful!

Cheers
Mary

Mary Wong
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From: Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez <crg@isoc-cr.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 08:50
To: Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org>
Cc: "council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org>
Subject: Re: [council] Draft list of definitions and descriptions of GNSO structures and mechanisms

Dear Mary,

this is excellent information, thank you. 

I still miss some reaction between the type of groups and its members (first lista as related to the second one), clearing probable questions like:
minimum number of councillors that have to be part of the group? if the chairs need to be members of the council? in which cases it makes a difference between a council member as opposed to a member of the respective constituency?

I think this would help motivate constituency members to take a much more active role in the processes, and not expect that just the council members do all the work.

Best regards

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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On Aug 11, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org> wrote:

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