Mason has not discussed it with the wider SG, nor even the rest of the ExCom to my knowledge. It is the Councilors' place to have that dialogue with their SG leadership. If there is some kind of disconnect between the Councilors and their SG then that needs to be resolved by them, not by circumventing the structure we have so painstakingly put in place. It takes more than a straw poll to change that structure. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@indom.com> Sender: owner-council@gnso.icann.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:57:53 To: Tim Ruiz<tim@godaddy.com> Cc: <council@gnso.icann.org> Subject: Re: [council] Council/Chair interaction Thanks Tim. How do others on the Council feel? Tim, Adrian, please note that our Chair Mason Cole has expressed his support for this. Stéphane Le 19 janv. 2011 à 14:35, Tim Ruiz a écrit :
Was this discussed with the Council as a whole? Nothing like this should be done without fromal approval of the Council. For the record, I do not agree with this and do not believe the "Council leadership" was put in place to take such actions independently of the rest of the Council.
Tim
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [council] Council/Chair interaction From: Stéphane Van Gelder Date: Tue, January 18, 2011 10:44 am To: GNSO Council
Councillors,
I wanted to inform you that I have suggested to your group Chairs that a mailing list be created to link the C and SG leadership with the Council leadership.
Their response was very much in favour, so a mailing list will be set up for the Council leaders (Chair and VC) and the group leaders (Chair and VC).
The idea is to improve informal communications between the group leadership and the Council.
We are also thinking about a regular conf call at some point, but this is not set in stone yet.
Thanks,
Stéphane