[Ncuc-af] Fwd: Call for Volunteers: GNSO Drafting Team to Further Develop Guidelines and Principles for the GNSO’s Roles and Obligations as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Committee/ Due by 02 January 2019

Wed Dec 12 18:14:14 CET 2018

I am sure we have qualified members within our group.
Please step in and serve!

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From: Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:09:00 +0000
Subject: Fwd: Call for Volunteers: GNSO Drafting Team to Further
Develop Guidelines and Principles for the GNSO’s Roles and Obligations
as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Committee/ Due by 02
January 2019
To: NCSG-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu

Thanks to Maryam for forwarding this call for Volunteers.  The process
for this particular call is for the NCSG executive committee to make
recommendations to the GNSO as to who our candidates will be.  Since
this is a drafting committee to develop guidelines and principles for
the GNSO, to support its participation in the Empowered Committee as
described in the post-transition By-laws, familiarity with the GNSO
operations and procedures and with the new post-transition environment
is a definite asset in this selection process.  Please do review the
attached documents, and if you are interested in applying, send your
statement of interest identifying your experience/familiarity with the
material to Maryam and I, for review by the EC.

Kind regards,

Stephanie Perrin

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Subject:        Call for Volunteers: GNSO Drafting Team to Further
Develop Guidelines and Principles for the GNSO’s Roles and Obligations
as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Committee/ Due by 02
January 2019
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:01:00 +0000
From:   Maryam Bakoshi
<maryam.bakoshi at ICANN.ORG><mailto:maryam.bakoshi at ICANN.ORG>
Reply-To:       Maryam Bakoshi
<maryam.bakoshi at ICANN.ORG><mailto:maryam.bakoshi at ICANN.ORG>
To:     NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>

Dear All,

***
Call for Volunteers: GNSO Drafting Team to Further Develop Guidelines
and Principles for the GNSO’s Roles and Obligations as a Decisional
Participant in the Empowered Committee

In Brief

Following the adoption by the GNSO Council of the revised GNSO
Operating Procedures, as well as the proposed modifications to the
ICANN Bylaws which were adopted by the ICANN Board of Directors on 13
May 2018, staff has outlined in the attached table the additional
proposed steps to be taken to ensure preparedness as well as
facilitate the ability for the GNSO Council to act in relation to the
new roles and responsibilities outlined in the post-transition Bylaws.

As previously agreed, staff has developed draft templates for motions
or other actions as draft Google Documents at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OQUhdG25D-OWloCdab1DTs7t4Uob6-1o.
These fall within the GNSO’s existing processes and procedures and
track the requirements in the ICANN Bylaws - templates were deemed
helpful to ensure all required information as outlined in the Bylaws
is provided by those considering submitting motions or initiating
other actions. Still to be drafted are guidance and/or principles for
the GNSO to complete a particular action(s), as follow:

  *   Article 4 (Accountability and Review): 4.3 Independent Review
Process (IRP) for covered ICANN actions - initiating an IRP,
representation and payment, and decision to make the claim for Council
consideration
  *   Customer Standing Committee (CSC): Section 17.2 CSC composition,
appointment, term and removal; and section 17.3 CSC Charter periodic
review - process and timeline
  *   Section 18.12 Special IANA Naming Function Reviews (IFRs) --
proposed process for revising the procedures and outcomes and a
consultation process developed with the ccNSO on whether to initiate
the IFR
  *   Participation in community forums: Section 1.3 approval action
community forum and section 2.3 rejection action community forum –
proposed process for input
  *   Section 2.2 petition process for specified actions – rules for
submitting petitions and identify representative
  *   Recall / removal processes: Section 3.1 Nominating Committee
Director removal process and section 3.3 Board recall process  --
representation, participation, and communication

These actions fall within the remit of the GNSO’s existing processes
and procedures, but additional details and steps are deemed to be
helpful to ensure preparedness for if/when these action are invoked.
As such, the GNSO Council is re-constituting a Drafting Team which is
expected to have at least one representative from each GNSO
Stakeholder Group and Constituency to work with GNSO support staff to
develop these guidelines/principles for GNSO Council consideration.

What This Team Will Do

The Drafting Team will work with GNSO staff to develop proposed
guidance or principles for the GNSO to complete a particular action(s)
that fall within the GNSO’s existing processes and procedures, but
where additional details and steps are deemed to be helpful, relating
to the GNSO’s participation as a Decision Participant in the Empowered
Community.

The Drafting Team shall provide to the GNSO Council the proposed
guidance and principles, including any recommendations, if applicable,
for changes to GNSO Operating Procedures to enable effective GNSO
participation as a Decisional Participant, for its consideration. Any
such new, or proposed modifications to existing procedures must be
approved by the GNSO Council following the applicable process.

How to Join

Each GNSO Stakeholder Group and Constituency is expected to identify
at least one volunteer to participate in this effort, according to
their own process and procedures. Ideally, volunteers have an interest
and can demonstrate reasonable knowledge of, or experience with, the
GNSO Operating Procedures as well as the roles and responsibilities of
Decisional Participants in the Empowered Community. Stakeholder Groups
and Constituencies are requested to identify volunteers by email to
gnso-secs at icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs at icann.org> by 02 January 2019. In
addition, observers may be subscribed to the mailing list, which will
be publicly archived, by contacting the
gnso-secs at icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs at icann.org>.

Next steps

As noted above, the GNSO Council directed that this call for
volunteers be circulated to the Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies.
It is anticipated that the Drafting Team will convene online for the
first time in early January 2019. Following that, regular online
meetings will be scheduled in accordance with the Drafting Team’s work
plan, which it is expected to develop as one of its first tasks.

Further information and Preparation

For those interested in volunteering for this effort, you are
encouraged to review the attached table.

Background

On 27 May 2016 the ICANN Board adopted a set of new ICANN Bylaws, as
revised on 26 May 2016, that aim to reflect changes needed to
implement the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal and such adoption
is contingent on the proposed transition away of remaining United
States Government oversight of ICANN.  Per the motion adopted on 30
June 2016, the GNSO sought volunteers for a Bylaws Implementation
Drafting Team to provide the GNSO Council with recommendations for any
necessary updates to the GNSO Operating Procedures, or possibly the
Bylaws as they relate to the GNSO, arising as a result of the revised
ICANN Bylaws that were adopted in May 2016.  The members of the
original Drafting Team were:
https://community.icann.org/display/GBIDT/DT+Members+and+mailing+list.
In addition, the GNSO Council requested that the Drafting Team should
determine what (if any) existing GNSO processes can be used to address
any new or additional obligation, and if there are none, whether an
existing process can be modified or if a new process needs to be
created. Following the adoption by the GNSO Council of the revised
GNSO Operating Procedures resulting from the Drafting Team’s
recommendations, as well as the proposed modifications to the ICANN
Bylaws adopted by the ICANN Board of Directors on 13 May 2018, staff
sought guidance from the GNSO Council as to how to proceed with the
next steps relating to the attached table of the additional proposed
steps to be taken to ensure preparedness as well as facilitate the
ability for the GNSO Council to act in relation to the new roles and
responsibilities outlined in the post-transition Bylaws. At ICANN63 in
October 2018 the GNSO Council agreed that a Call for Volunteers should
be issued to reconstitute the Drafting Team to develop guidance and
principles for the GNSO to complete a particular action(s) that fall
within the GNSO’s existing processes and procedures, but where
additional details and steps are deemed to be helpful, relating to
participation of the GNSO within the Empowered Community.

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