On 25/02/2026 2:38 am, Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts via council wrote:
Where for any good reason the decision of SCC is not confirmed by Council and the proposed candidate rejected, the working group would be without a Chair for the reason that according to the working group’s charter which was developed with inputs and reviews from many of us here in Council, it is the GNSO Council’s role to appoint a Chair for the Working group for which the mechanism of doing so is the SCC.
Just to clarify, the SSC does not usually select WG chairs. It is normally done either by the council/council leadership or by the WG itself. In this case the council leadership decided to use the SCC process, but in a heavily modified (and exceptional) form. After discussions the process was then changed to be more in line with normal SSC practice, but the use of the SSC in selecting a WG chair is still unusual, and purely a council leadership decision, not normal practice. Julf