RE: [gnso-osc] Revised Global Outreach Recommendations - for OSC adoption by October 31

["Mason Cole" <masonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip, Ron and others -

 

Thanks for the new iteration of the recommendations.  In addition to
Ron's useful questions and comments, I would like to offer the
following:

 

1.      There is a clear message here that additional participation in
the GNSO should be encouraged; however, there's no statement I can find
relating to an end objective (even in the BGC summary).  Participation
seems to be encouraged for its own sake - an objective with which I
don't disagree, but I believe the OTF would be able to orient its work
much more quickly and efficiently if it were able to give participants a
tangible reason (a "what's in it for you") reason for participating.
Another way to look at it might be to consider an answer to the
question: We'll know the OTF is successful when what, specifically,
happens?
2.      Related to the above, I suggest it would be useful for the OTF
to consider metrics for, first, benchmarking and, second, measuring
progress against objectives for participation.  This would be very
useful in not only measuring its own success, but in reporting to the
community how the community's resources were expended and what results
were achieved due to those expenditures.

 

I don't mean this as critically as it may sound, but I am wary of the
sometimes tendency for various ICANN groups to expend resources without
a clearly defined objective or goal.  We should definitely encourage
participation but should guard against any tendency to meander.

 

Thanks -

 

Mason

 

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From: Ron Andruff [mailto:randruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:52 PM
To: gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gnso-osc] Revised Global Outreach Recommendations - for
OSC adoption by October 31

 

Philip,

 

I read this iteration of the recommendation from the OSC CSG WT and,
while it provides some further detail, it unfortunately overlooks one of
the two questions I posed when the initial version was sent to the OSC,
i.e., "...the Work Team's thinking behind the length of Committee member
[OTF] terms, how to manage 'institutional memory' with members rotating
off the committee, and so forth?"

 

As I read section 2.1.2, the last para notes: The Charter should
establish an initial term for the OTF of two years.  After this period a
review should be conducted to review the success of the OTF's
initiatives and, if deemed successful, the OTF's charter could be
extended annually. Otherwise no information in regard to my questions
can be found in the document.

 

The issue that I am struggling with is with regard to what does the size
of OTF look like and what is the expectation for member rotation out and
in?  How many members in total; how many on the Steering Committee; are
there staggered terms to ensure smooth transitions of departing and
arriving members, or does the entire team get replaced wholesale, thus
tasking the VP Communications staff member with maintaining
institutional memory?  The WT may feel that the GNSO Council will work
these issues out, but my sense is that the OSC CSG WT could provide more
considered guidance to Council, having discussed and debated these
issues in their deliberations.  Either way, the OSC needs to know this
information before we can send the recommendations to the GNSO, in my
view.

 

The recommendations clearly detail all that the things that the OTF will
have on its plate so it would be helpful to know from the WT what it is
thinking in terms of how many people the OTF will need to get the job
done (and how the initial OTF will facilitate replacement volunteers
when terms are up).

 

Thank you.

 

Kind regards,

 

RA

 

Ronald N. Andruff

President

 

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________________________________

From: owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Philip Sheppard
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:33 AM
To: gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-osc] Revised Global Outreach Recommendations - for OSC
adoption by October 31

 

Fellow OSC members, 

please find attached a recommendation on outreach from the CSG team,
chaired by Olga Cavalli, in an effort led by Debbie Hughes.

It is revised based on input earlier from the OSC.

Let me have your comments with a view to OSC adoption by October 31.

 

After which, assuming a positive reception, we will send it to the GNSO
Council.

 

Philip

OSC Chair