RE: [bc-gnso] BC charter v19

[philip.sheppard@xxxxxx]

This issue is one of the pull outs for discussion


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> Philip, thanks.
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> a few initial comments, and then I'll read through again and flag any
> areas for the BC members of concern to me.
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> I appreciate that you have now been able to incorporate some of my
> comments in this version.
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> However, I had asked to have a specially designated elected member as the
> primary CSG rep, and I'd like that added into the list of elected
> positions.  There seems clear merit to distributing work, and avoiding
> conflicts of interests by putting too many roles into a single party, or
> small number of individuals. Spreading work, makes lighter work loads, as
> we all know. It does mean that coordination are important, of course.
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> A change that I feel strongly about is that the officers should have only
> one year terms, with a term limit of no more than three yaers.  That is
> what the IPC does, and it seems prudent to move to one year terms.
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> In 4.8, we need to make the description consistent within the body of the
> section to secretariat services, rather than continue to use the term
> "Secretariat", since the members haven't supported a continuation of a
> retained position, and the approach being proposed will allow flexibility
> to either use contracted services or services from ICANN.
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> I see that this now proposes that executive committee members need not
> adhere to the BC position. This goes too far. If one is an elected
> officer, then one has a duty to adhere to the BC position. Can we discuss
> when you would envision an executive committee member 'acting in their
> individual capacity'? That might clear up the confusion for me on that
> one.
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> I see that this charter is continuing to propose a list administrator. I'm
> not sure that is a separate function from 'secretariat services'. We want
> to avoid creating someone who is the 'email police', who has to make
> judgements about other members communications; I don't see that function
> in other constituencies -- and suggest that we simply have principled
> approaches to efficient communications.
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> We can briefly discuss the CSG representative at the huddle this p.m.
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> Marilyn
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>> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:27:20 +0100
>> Subject: [bc-gnso] BC charter v19
>> From: philip.sheppard@xxxxxx
>> To: bc-gnso@xxxxxxxxx
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>> I attach the latest version for discussion.
>> I believe we are nearly there.
>> It factors in the majority of clarifying redrafts that have been
>> suggested
>> with the exception of redrafts that replaced current charter text that
>> was
>> to date unaltered.
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>> I will pull out those few remaining bigger changes that have been
>> proposed
>> for discussion at the BC meeting in Seoul.
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>> Philip
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