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

[Robert Hoggarth <robert.hoggarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck:

No. There is no requirement that the Council approve any Work Team charters - 
only the steering committee charters.  Work Team are a creation of the Steering 
Committees - not the Council.

Set forth below I have pasted the specific language from the GNSO Improvements 
Implementation Plan (page 7 of 15) that was approved by the GNSO Council in 
October 2008:

"Steering Committee working teams

At the discretion of a majority of the members of a steering committee, a 
steering
committee can create working teams to focus on specific tasks that are part of
the chartered work plan of the committee. Any such teams should have a
specific charter and should report their results to the steering committee. It
would be the job of the steering committee to coordinate the work of any such
teams and to present the GNSO Council with well formed proposals that take into
account the work of any of the relevant teams. Steering committees will have to
balance between the necessity of bringing enough people to the table to do the
work without straining a few volunteers and the scalability and complexity of 
the
team structure they create."

Cheers,

Rob Hoggarth





On 4/14/09 2:32 PM, "Chuck Gomes" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Let me make sure I am clear.  The Council has not yet approved the CSG WT 
charter; does the Council need to approve it?

Chuck



________________________________
From: Robert Hoggarth  [mailto:robert.hoggarth@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009  2:22 PM
To: Gomes, Chuck; OSC-CSG Work Team
Subject: Re:  [gnso-osc-csg] Charter Approved: OSC Constituency Operations Work 
 Team


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