RE: [gnso-osc] GNSO Operations Steering Committee Business

["Ron Andruff" <randruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will be in attendance in Nairobi, Chuck.

 

Kind regards,

 

RA

 

Ronald N. Andruff

RNA Partners, Inc.

220 Fifth Avenue, 20th floor

New York, New York 10001

 

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From: owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gomes, Chuck
Sent: 2010-02-01 17:48
To: gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-osc] GNSO Operations Steering Committee Business

 

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.