March 2012 - Gnso-improvem-impl-sc

SCI activity
by KnobenW＠telekom.de May 30, 2012

May 30, 2012

Dear SCI members, after a phase of silent months it's now the right moment to put some items to the table which need input and recommendations from this committee. 1. Rules of procedure (http://gnso.icann.org/council/gnso-operating-procedures-16dec11-en.pdf) The GNSO council had a successful first run trial re a consent agenda which should be put in a formal process. One rugh suggestion for this is as follows: 1. The Chair or meeting leader calls for any opposition to said item being in the consent agenda. If any opposition is voiced, then that item is dropped from the consent agenda (and can be re-introduced at any time in the main agenda). 2. If no opposition is voiced to the item being on the consent agenda, the Chair or meeting leader calls for any opposition to the item itself. If any opposition is voiced, then no action is taken (and the item can be re-introduced at any time in the main agenda). 3. If no opposition, the consent agenda item is deemed approved by theGNSO Council. Obviously we need to discuss this in more detail, e.g. the goal of a consent agenda, which items could be included to a consent agenda and which should definitely be excluded e.a. It seems to make sense to include the text - once recommended - into chapter 3.0 of the rules "GNSO Council Meetings". 2. As discussed in Dakar, it might be worth sending out a reminder to the GNSO Council and SG/C leaders regarding the mandate of the SCI and the opportunity that exists to request review of GNSO Improvement related items. To this end, thanks to Marika the attached draft letter has been prepared for your consideration. Please feel free to comment. 3. Furthermore, in order to obtain feedback from WGs/DT on their experience with the GNSO Working Group Guidelines - as it is intended in the SCI charter - , it might be useful to develop a short survey which could facilitate data gathering and input. In order to kick off the discussion here are some bullet points: * The objective of the survey would be to determine whether there are any issues that were encountered by WG/Dts with the GNSO Working Group Guidelines, and/or identify areas for improvement * If deemed effective, such a survey could become a standard part of the self-evaluation process of WGs and provide the SCI with regular input on the status of the GNSO Working Group Guidelines Ideas for items to be included in the survey are welcome! I appreciate very much your response and hope to see most of you in Costa Rica. Kind regards Wolf-Ulrich Knoben

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SCI meeting
by KnobenW＠telekom.de March 19, 2012

March 19, 2012

All, In addition to the tasks we took at our meeting the SCI is asked by the GNSO council to look at the issue of GNSO Council deferral requests for motions. As we agreed to reconvene after mid of April it would be helpful to prepare a little in specifying the problem in more detail. Looking into how in the past the council handled deferrals would be useful. I'd therefore like to ask Marika whether staff would take over this survey. >From my point of view the following criteria could apply for this survey: - starting with council meetings under the new house structure - type, name and date of motion deferred - deferral requested by which SG/constituency - rationale given for the request - repeated request for deferral if applicable? Please add any criteria which may be useful. Best regards Wolf-Ulrich

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SCI meeting
by KnobenW＠telekom.de March 12, 2012

March 12, 2012

All, attached is a short summary of the SCI meeting held in San José, Costa Rica. Glen, would you be so kind to post it to the Wiki? Kind regards Wolf-Ulrich

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Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] SCI activity
by J. Scott Evans March 6, 2012

March 6, 2012

Happy to meet before 10 AM Saturday.

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