Council, now that we have a vice chair should we formally agree an internal role for the position ? Chuck and Bruce started this discussion a little way back. Allow me to restart based on Bruce's original. How do we and the chair and vice-chair feel about this ? Philip --------------------------- Role of Vice-chair of the GNSO Council 1) Meetings - work with staff to schedule GNSO related meetings at each major ICANN meeting, as well as help plan any inter-sessional meetings. (2) Operating planning - work with staff to develop the budget for GNSO related expenses to feed into ICANN's annual operational plan/budget e.g travel costs, as well as work with staff to plan for both staff and GNSO volunteer resources for various projects (task forces, working groups etc). - identify projects that provide efficiency improvements (e.g website updates, new use of collaboration tools, document management systems etc.) - work with staff to maintain a rolling 12 month operational/work plan and ensure we don't over commit projects to the available resources. (3) Deputise for the chair when the chair is unavailable.