[gnso-otf-dt] Draft Message to Stephane

[Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Olga,

Here is a draft message for you to send to Stephane.  Please feel free to make 
any changes.

Have a nice weekend!

Warm regards,
Julie

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Subject:  Outreach Task Force Draft Charter — Question re: Next Step

Dear Stéphane,

As you may recall, this past May the GNSO Council accepted the recommendations 
of the Operations Steering Committee on the Outreach Task Force 
(Recommendations to Develop a Global Outreach Program to Broaden Participation 
in the GNSO at 
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/global-outreach-recommendations-21jan11-en.pdf.)  
The Council then directed ICANN staff to invite members of the GNSO Stakeholder 
Groups and Constituencies to volunteer to form an Outreach Task Force Charter 
Drafting Team (OTF-DT), which is comprised as follows:

OTF-DT Members: Tony Harris – ISP, Carlos Aguirre – NCA, Olga Cavalli – NCA 
(OTF-DT Leader), Amr Elsadr – NCSG, Debra Hughes – NCSG, Roy Dykes – RySG 
–NeuStar
Observers: Stephane van Gelder – GNSO Council chair, Mary Wong – GNSO Council 
vice chair, Jeff Neuman – GNSO Council vice chair
Staff Support: Julie Hedlund, Gisella Gruber, and Glen de Saint Géry
Mailing list archives: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-otf-dt/ 
<http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-otf-dt/>

As you may have seen from the traffic on the OTF-DT list 
(gnso-otf-dt@xxxxxxxxx), the OTF-DT has nearly completed its work on the Draft 
Charter.   We are seeking your guidance because the Drafting Team is ready to 
begin the next step, which we suggest should include a review of the Draft 
Charter by the Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies.  We would like to suggest 
that the Drafting Team could direct staff to send an announcement to the 
Stakeholder Group and Constituency Liaison List, rather than seeking Council 
direction to do so.  We do know that the agenda at the 22 September meeting is 
quite full and we also could get an announcement out sooner if we did not have 
to wait for a formal motion from the Council for this next step.  Following 
review by the Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies the Drafting Team would 
revise the Charter accordingly and then submit it to the GNSO Council for 
review and approval.  If we give the Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies a 
month to review the Charter (which we think they will need given their meeting 
schedules), the we think the Charter could be ready for GNSO Council review and 
approval in Dakar at the latest.

Please let us know whether you think this is an appropriate approach.  Thank 
you very much for your guidance.

Best regards,

Olga

Olga Cavalli, Chair, Outreach Task Force Charter Drafting Team