[gnso-osc] GNSO Operations Steering Committee Business

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

Please review the following OSC business and respond as requested.

 

Thanks, Chuck

 

Nairobi OSC Meeting

 

Note that a live OSC meeting has tentatively been scheduled for Sunday, 7 March 
from 15:30-16:45 local time in Nairobi.  Hopefully, those who will not be in 
Nairobi will be able to participate remotely.  Here are start times for various 
other time zones:

 

04:30 PST (West Coast USA)

06:30 CST (Central USA)

07:30 EST (East Coast USA)

09:30 ART/BRT (Buenos Aires/Sao Paulo)

13:30 CET (Central Europe).

 

Call information will be sent later.

 

Here is a tentative agenda for the meeting:

 

1.      Roll call

2.      Review/edit agenda

3.      Election of new chair (if necessary)

4.      Working Teams

a.       GNSO Council Operations WT (GCOT)

                                       i.      Status Report

                                     ii.      Tentative Work Schedule

                                    iii.      OSC action items (if any)

b.      Constituency/Stakeholder Group WT (CSG WT)

                                       i.      Status Report

                                     ii.      Tentative Work Schedule

                                    iii.      OSC action items (if any)

c.       Communications & Coordination WT (CCT WT)

                                       i.      Status Report

                                     ii.      Tentative Work Schedule

                                    iii.      OSC action items (if any)

5.      Near Term OSC workload

6.      Other Business

 

Note that our agenda will need to be posted as soon as 15 February, so if there 
are any suggested changes, they should be communicated before in the next 10 to 
12 days.  Please share any comments, questions or suggested edits on this list.

 

OSC Chair

 

The issue of OSC chair was raised several months ago, in particular the concern 
over the GNSO Council Chair also serving as the OSC Chair.  Stéphane 
volunteered to serve as OSC Chair to alleviate the workload for Chuck.  Avri 
communicated concerns about either the Council Chair or Vice Chairs serving as 
a Steering Committee Chair because of the Steering Committees report to the 
Council and hence to the Council Chair or Vice Chairs.  Chuck indicated that he 
is more than willing to step down as OSC Chair as soon as we have a replacement 
and encouraged discussion on the OSC list.

 

There was fairly limited discussion on this topic except as noted above.  It 
would be helpful if other OSC members shared their thoughts about this issue.  
I believe that Avri is correct that it would be preferable for the Council 
Chair or Vice Chairs not to serve as OSC Chair.  To accomplish that, we need a 
volunteer who is willing and able to serve as OSC chair.  To move this forward, 
please respond on the OSC list to these questions as applicable:

 

*       Is anyone willing to volunteer to chair the OSC?
*       If Stéphane is the only volunteer, is anyone opposed to him taking over 
the OSC Chair position? 

If we can resolve this on the list, then item 3 of the proposed Nairobi OSC 
Agenda may be removed.

 

Attendance in Nairobi

 

Please communicate whether you will be able to participate in the Nairobi OSC 
meeting and if so whether you will do so in-person or remotely.