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

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rob.
 
Chuck


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        From: Robert Hoggarth [mailto:robert.hoggarth@xxxxxxxxx] 
        Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:50 PM
        To: Gomes, Chuck; OSC-CSG Work Team
        Subject: Re: [gnso-osc-csg] Charter Approved: OSC Constituency
Operations Work Team
        
        
        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
                
                

                        
                         
                        
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                        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
                                
                                 
                                
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                                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_wor
k_team_charter.
                                
                                Please let me know if you have any
questions.
                                
                                Thank  you.
                                
                                Best  regards,
                                
                                Julie
                                
                                Julie Hedlund
                                Policy Consultant