Hi, Are there any material changes in the charter? If so, I think we would actually need a motion and a vote to approved the modified charter. Also I see it does not include any milestones. In any case, I think it would be reasonable to hold off any such vote until some milestones have been included. I do not, however, think that giving 3 days for Council members to object to any changes is necessarily sufficient for substantively modifying a SC charter. thanks a. Reference from approved plan for GNSO Improvements: The GNSO Council must adopt the charter that initiates the work of the steering committees. This should be done by a motion for approval of a charter which is duly seconded and which receives a supermajority vote of Council members present. The Council also must approve any material changes that are made to the work items or milestones or committee composition. All such work plans and committee composition decisions, including termination of the steering committees, will be done by a motion within the Council that is duly seconded and which receives a supermajority vote in compliance with the current GNSO Council voting guidelines .... On 12 Dec 2008, at 16:56, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
The current membership of the Operations Steering Committee (OSC) unanimously approved the attached charter for the OSC and is being sent to the Council for information. If there are not objections by 18 Dec 08, we will assume it is de facto adopted.
Our next steps are to develop an invitation for members to the three initial work teams described in the charter and to make final edits to the draft charters for those work teams. We hope to provide those items to the Council in the next couple weeks.
Chuck Gomes, OSC Chair <GNSO Improvements - Proposed OSC Charter - 12 Dec 08.doc>