[gnso-osc-ops] ACTION ITEMS/SUMMARY: OSC-GNSO Operations Work Team 21 June Sydney Mtg

["Julie Hedlund" <jahedlund@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Work Team members,

Thank you for Sunday's meeting.  Here are the action items and a summary of
discussion points.  Please let me know if you have any changes or questions.
These also are posted on the wiki at:
https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?gnso_operations_team.  In addition,
linked to the wiki is the transcript for the meeting, which also may be
found at this link:
http://syd.icann.org/files/meetings/sydney2009/transcript-gnso-working-sessi
on-2-21jun09-en.txt.

Action Items:
1.  GNSO Council Rules of Procedure: Julie Hedlund will distribute to the
Work Team for consideration an amended and redlined version of the Rules of
Procedure indicating the changes agreed to at the meeting on sections 3.5
Quorum and 3.6 Votes and highlighting the next possible priority sections
for discussion (Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, Section 4, and Section 5)  (See
attached document, also posted to the Wiki.)
2.  Proposed GNSO Structure: Ron Andruff will revise the document based on
the recommendations received from the OSC at the Sydney meeting and
circulate the revised version to the Work Team.
3.  SOI/DOI Document: ICANN Legal Staff are reviewing the document and will
provide comments to the Work Team.

Summary of Main Points:
1.  GNSO Council Rules of Procedure:
--Section 3.5 Quorum:  Agreed to new draft language, as follows: "In order
for the GNSO Council to initiate a meeting a quorum must be present.  A
quorum is a majority of voting members, which includes at least one member
of each stakeholder group.  At the time of a vote there must be a quorum."
--Section 3.6 Votes: Chuck Gomes noted that under the changes considered for
the Bylaws all votes are taken in both Houses and the criteria for passing
is defined in each House.  Julie agreed to amend the language based on
changes proposed to the Bylaws by the GNSO Council.
2.  Proposed GNSO Structure -- Meeting with OSC Members
--The OSC members recommended several changes to further clarify certain
points in the document, including changing references from Constituencies to
Stakeholder Groups to reflect the new bicameral structure and to make it
clear that the split in duties between policy and admin refers to the GNSO
as a whole, and not to a split of the GNSO Council.  Ron Andruff agreed to
make the changes and to send the revised version to the Work Team.  In
general, the OSC members present agreed that with these changes the Work
Team should circulate the document to the Constituencies for consideration.
3.  SOI/DOI document -- Meeting with OSC Members
--Some OSC members suggested the approach was too complex, but agreed that
providing an SOI needs to be timely and that this should be the focus of the
document.  Ray Fassett explained that the IS Legal staff also were reviewing
the document and that the next step would be for the Work Team to consider
their recommendations.

Best regards,

Julie

Julie Hedlund
Policy Consultant

Attachment: GNSO Council Rules of Procedure Draft 210609.doc
Description: MS-Word document