Call for volunteers – GNSO Operating Plan and Budget Review drafting team ICANN has published the Draft Budget and Operating Plan for FY 16 for public comment<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/op-budget-fy16-2015-03-18-en>. In as much as it may affect the GNSO Council in its role as the manager of the policy development process, there may be potential for the Council to participate in this process. A suggestion would be to review the draft budget with respect to its effect on the role of the Council and consider responding with a joint statement. At the Council meeting on 16 April 2015, Council approved forming a drafting team to address this concern and provide a comment to the public comment forum before the closing date, 1 May 2015 Purpose: · draft an online document, · build consensus on the mailing list because there is no Council meeting before the close of public comments Focus on: · the role of the Council as policy manager and without displacing the role or positions of the various SG/Cs · resources to support the policy management function Timeline: · complete work 28 April 2015 · review and submit to public comment forum 1 May 2015 Volunteers: Amr Elsadr, Susan Kawaguchi, Stephanie Perrin, Carlos Raúl Gutierrez, A mailing list will be created to facilitate the work Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org