[NCUC-DISCUSS] Summary of GNSO leadership call of 5 Aug, on governance and WS2 updates

[Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix]

Dear all,

Please find below a summary of the most important points that were
discussed during the GNSO leadership call that took place last week re WS2
implementation, NomCom review, and a few other matters, on 5 Aug. Several
persons from Org intervened on the call.

Have a nice day,

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-- The NomCom RIWG has not been reporting for several months, and
specifically it is not quite known at the community level what they did
with the (overall negative) feedback they got on the implementation plan
for the NomCom review, about a year ago.

As a reminder, neither NCUC nor NCSG, nor NPOC submitted comments on that
plan. The main change being considered is changing the allocation of seats
within the GNSO, and not changing the total number of GNSO seats on the
NomCom. Hence, the GNSO would have to figure out by itself who to allocate
its seven seats to and on what basis.

The Board will not move with the required Bylaw amendments regarding the
NomCom as long as it's not clear whether the RIWG has properly reached out
and consulted the community. It obviously does not want to have the
Empowered Community shut down the Bylaws amendments.

-- There is a "triage document" that will come out of Org Soon(TM)
regarding WS2 recommendations implementation, for those recommendations
that are the responsibility of C/SG/SO. Org seems quite adamant that there
is a lot for the community to do. Still, despite several questions from
different parts of the GNSO, we couldn't get any specifics on this. It took
staff more than 15 mins just to tell us the document in question is not
ready yet.

In case you missed it, here is where Org stands with the implementation of
its "own" WS2 recommendations, from last May
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/an-update-on-work-stream-2-
implementation-4-3-2021-en

Additionally, we had a discussion, probably more than a year ago, regarding
WS2 recommendations implementation, where it was clear that most of the
recommendations were for the Board and Org to implement... We will have to
wait and see what is in that document.
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