[gnso-restruc-dt] Organization and subsidiarity Re: Notes from Restructure meeting of 25 May

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

On 26 May 2009, at 10:57, Avri Doria wrote:

> - on Q7 and Q8, Avri will draft proposed  language for these that is  
> based on adhering to a principle of subsidiarity, i.e. making and  
> documenting decisions at the lowest appropriate unit of organization  
> in the bottom up chain.
currently Section 2 reads as follows:

ARTICLE X: GENERIC NAMES SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION; SECTION 2.  
ORGANIZATION
The GNSO shall consist of (i) four Stakeholder Groups as described in  
Section 5 of this Article (link TBD) and (ii) a GNSO Council  
responsible for managing the policy development process of the GNSO,  
as described in Section 3 of this Article (link TBD).

I propose the following rewrite:

ARTICLE X: GENERIC NAMES SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION; SECTION 2.  
ORGANIZATION
The GNSO shall consist of:

(i) A number of Constituencies organized within the Stakeholder Groups  
as described in Section 5 of this Article (link TBD);
(ii) Four Stakeholder Groups organized within Houses as described in  
Section 5 of this Article (link TBD);
(iii) Two Houses within the GNSO Council as described in Section 3 of  
this Article (link TBD);
(iv) and a GNSO Council responsible for managing the policy  
development process of the GNSO, as described in Section 3 of this  
Article (link TBD).
Except as otherwise defined in these by-laws, the GNSO Council, the  
two Houses, the four Stakeholder Groups, and the Constituencies will  
be responsible for defining their own charters, rules, procedures and/ 
or names with the approval of their members and of the ICANN Board of  
Directors.


a.