Re: [gnso-osc] GCOT recommendations - SOI - adoption by October 31

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

While a member of the WT that is making these recommendations, I do want to 
register a concern.

I understand the pressure to do this quickly. The WT proposed a policy, and the 
OSC and Council both approved a policy that the majority of the community 
hated, so we quickly rewrote the policy to try and fix it.

Good fix, perhaps.  We don't really know as we never gave the policy a chance 
to be used and never gave people the time to learn something new.

But definitely  a bad policy process.

As time goes on, we will find other policy recommended by PPSC and OSC and 
approved by the Council that at first do not fit very well - change is never 
comfortable.  The urge to immediately roll back the changes is tempting, but I 
believe unwise.

I certainly hope that if the OSC passes these on we do so explicitly stating 
that this is not a precedent but an exception.

It is time for us to establish the New Process Oversight/Review WG that the 
GNSO Council has started working on, but some inexplicable reason has been 
delayed in finishing.  It is time for that group to come into existence and for 
the OSC and PPSC to finish their work and blink out of existence.

a.

On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:23, Philip Sheppard wrote:

> Fellow OSC members, 
> please find attached a revised recommendation on statements of interest from 
> the
> GCOT team chaired by Ray Fassett. 
> It is revised based on input earlier from the Council.
> Let me have your comments with a view to OSC adoption by October 31.
> 
> After which, assuming a positive reception, we will re-send it to the GNSO
> Council.
> 
> There is both a red-line and clean version.  The red-line version has a brief
> explanatory comment for each edit.  In summary the changes are:
> 1.      To clarify that declarations of interest are not to be written 
> documents
> 2.      To exempt ICANN staff personnel from the requirement of completing
> statements of interest (upon condition as stated)
> 3.      To simplify the questions pertaining to the statement of interest form
> while keeping to their intent (note this is section 5.3.3 originally not 
> adopted
> by the Council that we hope now will be as a result of these edits, assuming
> approved by the OSC.)
> 4.      To remove the condition that participants are to be individually 
> polled
> by the Chair for updates to their disclosure of interest due to feedback we've
> received relative to the inefficiency of this condition in practice.
> 
> Philip
> OSC Chair
> 
> 
> 
> 
> <GNSO Operating Procedures v2 Section 5 Proposed Revisions 15 Oct 2010 
> redline.docx><GNSO Operating Procedures v2 Section 5 Proposed Revisions 15 
> Oct 2010 clean.docx>