RE: QuQRE: [gnso-osc-ops] GNSO "kite" and Sydney

["Ray Fassett" <ray@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ron, I have today sought input from the GNSO Secretariat (room scheduling,
potential agenda conflicts) with regards to extending the Work Team?s
scheduled meeting on Sunday in Sydney from one hour to two hours.  Assuming
none, I have requested the hour extension.  I think was a good suggestion.

 

With regards to informational access, I am not hiding anything.  I have
previously forwarded an e-mail from Chuck Gomes, the OSC Chair, requesting
our focus to be on the Rules of Procedure.  On our last call, I instructed
Julie on behalf of our team to provide us guidance on which areas of the RoP
we can best focus upon.  Julie talked to Rob, Rob talked to Chuck, Chuck
talked to Julie or some iteration like this and Julie got back to me as I
requested from our last call, the result of which is Section 3, targeting
3.5 and 3.6 (Quorum and Votes, respectively) as most urgent for reasons
described previous, which I concurred to constructive.  I am not taking the
approach of having to understand what everybody else is doing.  I will leave
this for the OSC.  What is important to me as the Chair of this Work Team is
to advance upon the expectations of the OSC.  With this said, it could be
helpful from Julie for some background of how work done by other work teams
will impact the work we are undertaking.  In the meantime, I think we have
meaningful feedback and input of where we can best concentrate our efforts
towards useful and productive output specific to the Council Rules of
Procedure.  As Wolf articulated, there is a lot of content here and I plan
to continually look to the OSC for guidance and to Julie for staff support
to this end.

 

I hope this helps to explain the concerns you mention which I find helpful
to the team.

 

Ray

 

 

 

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From: Ron Andruff [mailto:randruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:53 PM
To: 'Ray Fassett'; 'GNSO Ops Work Team'
Subject: QuQRE: [gnso-osc-ops] GNSO "kite" and Sydney

 

Ray,

 

Please find my comments in red below.  

 

Regarding the comments you received on the RoP from Julie and Rob it would
be helpful if the rest of the work team had access to that information as
well.  I am still unsure as to who is doing what; moveover, how work done by
other work teams will impact the work we are undertaking.

 

Regarding our face-to-face meeting in Sydney, as noted in my previous post
(below), can you advise whether our meeting is indeed being extended (or
not) so that we can all make our other meeting plans accordingly.

 

Thank you.

 

Kind regards,

 

RA

 

Ronald N. Andruff

RNA Partners, Inc.

220 Fifth Avenue, 20th floor

New York, New York 10001

 

www.rnapartners.com 

V: +1 212 481 2820 x 11

F:  +1 212 481 2859 

 

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From: Ray Fassett [mailto:ray@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 2009-06-09 00:28
To: 'Ron Andruff'; 'GNSO Ops Work Team'
Subject: RE: [gnso-osc-ops] GNSO "kite" and Sydney

 

Ron, my opinion is that we have not provided explicit enough examples to
delineate policy administrative duties from organizational administrative
duties.  This is key because a major crux to the document is a new staffing
proposal for each of these administrative needs.

 

At the end of the day, GNSO Council members are to be administrators.  They
are to administratively manage the policy development process.  The point
you have introduced is that in order for future Council to members to best
do this administrative policy management function with efficiency, all of
the other administrative duties of the GNSO need to be supplemented with new
people ? at the Council level.  This is where the new proposed
organizational chart comes in.

 

I have reviewed both Tony?s and Wolf?s comments.  There is an overriding
question going on ? call it a difference of opinion ? within our work team
as to whether there are enough organizational administrative duties to
warrant a separate body for this.  At the same time, I hear your issue that
if this ends being the case in practice, then the separate admin body can be
disbanded.

 

There is also the question of geographic diversity requirements.  Without
over complicating the document to fly the kite, we are being silent to this
question ? but we are not all on board that we should be. Diversity is
critical in policy development; but with regard to administrative tasks the
important issue is getting the task done, not where the individuals on the
team come from.  It may be asking too much to confirm diversity on the admin
team.

 

I have had discussions with Chuck Gomes, Chair of the OSC pertaining to this
document and its distribution.  He has emphasized to me two things 1) Get
our Work Team focused on the Rules of Procedure and 2) sending out a kite is
up to us but understand that constituency representatives we are requesting
attention from are overloaded. Chuck is missing the point.  We are NOT
sending the kite to the reps, we are sending it to the constituency members.
We need community feedback; not councilor feedback.  In this regard, perhaps
we can have staff set up an email address for comments to the work team so
that all can monitor the responses as they come in.

 

My preference is to work through the Rules of Procedure.  By focusing on
this, we may be able to better identify the organizational administrative
functions we are stating in the document are needed to be staffed.  This is
my own opinion.  With this said, I have attached the kite document
containing my edits, capturing thoughts I?ve interpreted from other work
team members and from the original feedback we received.  I have also added
a 4th question. From the start of this dialogue, I have tried to clarify
that there is a clear difference between ?policy councilors? and
?administration managers? ? and that both have different and separate skill
sets and tasks.  If I read your amendment correctly (This document
identifies two primary sets of duties for GNSO Council members) you are
dramatically altering the kite proposal from this initial position.  Your
amendment calls for splitting the GNSO Council into two groups?  Is that
your intention?   

 

Regarding question 4: The kite was intended to ask one question, i.e., does
this idea make sense to you or not?  Questions 2 and 3 were intended simply
to get a deeper understanding of the ?yes? or ?no? question, so that we
could have a better read.  The idea was to ask a ?closed? question.  A
closed question being one that delivers a single answer.  Question 4 is, in
my view, far too ?open?, and while it may or may not provide a broad array
of speculative answers, it will do little to give the work team the type of
guidance it needs, while turning the kite into a broader based document than
it was intended to do.  I am concerned that we are all losing sight of the
intended goal as the weeks roll by?

 

If the team is comfortable with my edits, and we have consensus to
distribute this document for the purpose of seeking broader constituency
feedback as you encourage, then I will do so.  We can decide this on our
Wednesday scheduled call leaving enough time to distribute prior to Sydney.


 

I hope that I have articulated my position satisfactorily.  Comments welcome
to my edits.

 

Ray

 

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From: owner-gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ron Andruff
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:29 AM
To: gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-osc-ops] GNSO "kite" and Sydney
Importance: High

 

Dear Chairman,

Dear all,

 

I would like to remind the Chair and team that we are now just 12 days away
from the start of the Sydney meeting and we have yet to send out the ?kite?
document for the community?s consideration.  As we have noted repeatedly on
our calls, we NEED community feedback because there are so few of us
participating on this work team.  Therefore I strongly urge the Chair to
finalize the document to his liking and send it out to the current
constituencies for their circulation to their members in advance of the
Sydney meeting so that we can gain the benefit of face-to-face feedback.

 

On a separate, but related, note, I see that our work team (like all others)
is scheduled to meet for 60 minutes on Sunday, June 21st.  I think that this
is far too little time and therefore would propose that the Chair establish
a two hour meeting to give us the time to discuss and debate how to deal
with the Rule of Procedure.  In this regard, I have understood that Rob and
Julie are going through them now to provide us with an understanding of (1)
who else ? and in what capacity ? are dealing with this task; and (2) to
provide a ?road map? for our work team vis-à-vis the priority of each rule
vis-à-vis which ones we take on first, second, etc.

 

In this regard, as we have discussed on our calls, the hope has been that
the work done on the SOI/DOI as well as that done on the ?kite? would be
folded into the Rules that our work team recommends.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

RA

 

Ronald N. Andruff

RNA Partners, Inc.

220 Fifth Avenue, 20th floor

New York, New York 10001

 

www.rnapartners.com 

V: +1 212 481 2820 x 11

F:  +1 212 481 2859