Dear Hadia,
Thank you for your input,
In drafting the ME Space Charter we tried to spell out the actual task of the space and avoided getting into the details to keep the charter short.
On your recommend of adding "have adequate writing skills", I guess it is going to be challenging particularly most of us English is a second language for us including me.
The statement is supposed to reflect the community opinion hence each member of the drafting team and MEAC community can provide their perspectives and even help in language editing.
The penholder can't do it all, but they could be the one who puts the initial ideas to start soliciting community inputs along the development of the process. One round the lead team couldn't find a volunteer to be a penholder hence the lead team did take over.
Personally, I would like to relax the requirements on the penholder to encourage more community member to volunteer to be a penholders and learn along the process. The drafting team will always find the coaching support from the lead team.
From my perspective, stronger role falls on the members of the drafting team to support the development of the first statement and not only the penholder. We would like to see all those who volunteer to draft the statement give hand in it. However we know along the way, something happens and they can't afford the time That is why, if volunteers can anticipate of their load up front to avoid having a non functional drafting team.
I was the one who added the observers, because we need to have the window open to our curious members. Giving observers space to observe and build confidence in the process, will give them encouragement to be either drafting team members or future penholder.
Best wishes,
Nadira
Dear Tijani,
Thank you for your reply, so maybe for the purpose of clarity we need to spell it out, as there could be some sort of confusion about whether the drafting team, the leadership team or some other member could be responsible about this task. I would like also to suggest adding to the drafting team requirements
"have adequate writing skills " otherwise you end up with a lot of copy and paste material and mismatching sentences.
so this part of the charter could read
"Best efforts should be made to ensure that the drafting team members:
• Have sufficient expertise in the applicable subject matter; and adequate writing skills
• Commit to actively participate in the drafting operation on an ongoing basis during
the whole period of drafting."
One last thing, I was wondering why wouldn't an observer that wants to be a drafter upgrade his/her status to a member. Why would anyone interested in participating in the drafting process participate as an observer? what is the advantage of that to the group and/or to the observer especially that he/she has no voting rights?
Thank you again
Kind Regards
Hadia
Best efforts should be made to ensure that the drafting team members:
• Have sufficient expertise in the applicable subject matter;
• Commit to actively participate in the drafting operation on an ongoing basis during
the whole period of drafting.
My dear Hadia,
I thought it was obvious that it’s the leading team who will do it.
Thank you for your comment.
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Tijani BEN JEMAA
Executive Director
Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)
Phone: +216 98 330 114
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Dear Tijani,
Thank you and Nadira for working on this and sharing it. However, it is unclear to me who should be doing this work "In working towards this deliverable, the ME Space will, as a first step, establish and adopt a
work plan and associated schedule. The work plan and schedule should include times and
methods for consultation and Proposal revisions, and should establish an expected date for
issuing of a final Statement Proposal. This schedule needs to line up with the ICANN Meeting
dates."
I believe that the aforementioned part needs further clarification, as to who should establish the initial work plan, the sentence says "the ME Space will" does this mean that any one from the community can establish the initial work plan?
Thanks
Hadia
Dear all,
After reviewing the various comments on the draft charter circulated for comment prior to ICANN 64 and discussed during the ME Space session in Kobe, the Space Leading Team would like to share with you this last version.
Best
Tijani BEN JEMAA & Nadira AL-ARAJ
ME Space Leading Team
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