Ditto. As I said on the call today, we should not underestimate that conflicting positions that will come out during this process and a pair of really experienced co-chairs who can consult with each other will be key to getting through this. I supported Jeff and Avri, not because I was denigrating anyone else, but because I have seen them both in action. I have often disagreed with both of them on substantive issues, but have no doubt about their ability to lead us fairly through this challenging PDP. Alan At 22/02/2016 07:34 PM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr via Gnso-newgtld-wg wrote:

I would prefer to have Co-Chairs (with all the experience and independent neutrality in actions, that such roles require) and a set of 5 SubTeam Leaders who can then forn part of a Leadership Team... Especially as I assume that the ST leads will be specifically active, and "qualified" in terms of knowledge and experience with relation to the ST Topics... On 23 Feb 2016 10:30, "Khaled Koubaa via Gnso-newgtld-wg" <<mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org>gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org> wrote: Hi all,

Following up with the discussion we had, I would like to refer our future discussion to the <http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf>GNSO Working Group Guidelines. To be consistent with those guidelines, I tend to prefer that we adopt the following leadership positions : - A Chair (1) : duties defined in point 2.2.1 of the WG Guidelines - A Vice-Chair (s) : duties defined in point 2.2.2 of the same guidelines.

The question will be how many Vice-Chair we will elect ? In the presentation that Steve made tonight, I understood that 38 issues were identified and grouped in 5 groups. I think it will be good to have 5 Vice-Chairs who in the same time can be each one of them the Chair of one Sub-Groups that will be covering one of those 5 group of issues.

For the record, I would like to support Steven Coates nomination for a Vice-Chair role.

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