Re: [gnso-osc-csg] Charter Approved: OSC Constituency Operations Work Team

[Robert Hoggarth <robert.hoggarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck:

Julie beat me to it, but since I had typed up 9/10's of this note, I'm sharing 
it for additional clarification.  The OSC drafted the initial charters of all 
its work teams and is responsible for their work.  I recall that the OSC wanted 
to be fairly flexible in that regard. That said, as Julie noted, each original 
work team charter contains charter modification language which states:

"Modifications: At any time during the tenure of the WT, the Chair should 
communicate to the OSC if the WT believes that changes or clarifications are 
needed regarding the WT Charter, including these rules."

Thus if the WT Charter, as now approved by the work team has altered/"changed" 
the original version developed by the OSC, then in addition to informing the 
OSC Chair of the charter approval, the work team chair should also report to 
the OSC chair any specific "changes" to the charter that have been agreed to in 
the work team.  There is no provision in the OSC Charter for OSC "approval" per 
se of charter changes, but as the coordinator of the work teams, the OSC need 
to know what direction each team is going in to manage workloads and avoid 
duplication of efforts. Presumably if a work team made changes that would 
create a problem, then the OSC would come back to the work team with feedback.

Hope this is helpful.

RobH

P.S.  As you'll recall, the OSC itself DOES need to get charter changes 
approved by the GNSO Council, but there is no requirement of such 
micromanagement of the work team efforts by the Council - although each Work 
Team's recommendations must be evaluated and passed on by the OSC and then 
ultimately approved by the Council.


On 4/14/09 1:38 PM, "Chuck Gomes" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Note that the CSG WT approved their Charter as indicated below.  If any OSC 
members have any comments or concerns, please communicate them on this list.

Rob - Can you refresh my memory: Do the charters need OSC and/or Council 
approval?

Chuck

________________________________
From: owner-gnso-osc-csg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc-csg@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Julie Hedlund
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:29 PM
To: OSC-CSG Work Team
Subject: [gnso-osc-csg] Charter Approved: OSC Constituency Operations Work Team

Dear Work Team Members,

The charter of the OSC Constituency Operations Team has been approved.  There 
is a link to the final charter from the Work Team's wiki page: 
https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?constituency_operations_team and here 
is a link to the charter wiki page: 
https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?osc_constituency_operations_work_team_charter.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Julie

Julie Hedlund
Policy Consultant