Re: [council] Request from the GA

["erica" <erica.roberts@bigpond.com>]

Thank you for raising this.  I concurr with  your suggestion that we need to
put in place procedures to provide guidance to both the Secretariat and the
GA re the availability of support services.
Meanwhile, it would be useful if you could advise us:
* of the time (hours) you would expect to be required to meet this latest
request from the GA; and
* whether this can be managed within the current budget allocated for
Secretariat services.

Regards,
erica


----- Original Message -----
From: "Elisabeth Porteneuve" <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>
To: <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:30 AM
Subject: [council] Request from the GA


>
>
> Philip,
> Council Colleagues,
>
> I wish to have your guidance on how to deal with the GA requests,
> I receive more and more of them.
> It is not clear to myself when the requests from the GA may be
> accepted and when not, and what the procedures are.
>
> Apparently the GA Chair is requesting myself to set up something
> very similar to the recent GA Chair election, cf
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.DNSO-GAchair.html
>
> The GA Chair selection process by the GA lasted for 6 weeks.
>
> Elisabeth
>
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> | To: "DNSO Secretariat" <DNSO.Secretariat@dnso.org>
> | Subject: RE: Nomination Process
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> | Dear Elisabeth,
> |
> | The Names Council in Stockholm asked the General Assembly to designate
its
> | own representative to the Review Task Force which (among other things)
will
> | be dealing with the issue of the Individuals' Constituency:
> |
> |
> |        1.   Sheppard: A task force makes sense. I might volunteer to
chair
> | it, if that was acceptable to others.
> |        2.   Swinehart: Consultation.
> |            . Stubbs: Need to include the chairman of the GA.
> |            . Swinehart: A good suggestion.
> |        3.   Swinehart: GA chair (consider changes), Individuals
Constituency
> | (determine next steps), language diversity (determine costs, and make a
> | recommendation for a cost-effective means for making translations).
> |        4.   Swinehart: Perhaps we should take proposals from DNSO, and
> | evaluate the various proposals.
> |        5.   Stubbs: Goal is to include some representative of the GA.
This
> | may or might not be the GA chair. "GA chair or designee."
> |
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/stockholm/archive/scribe-nc-060201.html
> |
> | The GA has expressed a desire to select such a representative rather
than to
> | have the Chair appoint such a representative.
> | The Secretariat is being asked to prepare a nomination/voting procedure
> | whereby such a representative may be chosen.
> |
> | You may wish to remind the GA that their selected representative will be
> | attending to discussions on the following:
> |
> |
> | * Consultation -- Review the recommendations of WG D and the Review task
> | force and working group report and implement a means of outreach and
> | stakeholder consultation with built-in mechanisms for fulfilling the
> | objectives.
> | * GA Chair -- Review the current system of election for the General
Assembly
> | chair and propose changes if required.
> | * Individuals Constituency -- Review the need, uniqueness, potential
> | contribution and representiveness of an individual domain name holder's
> | constituency.
> | * Language diversity -- Recommend cost effective means to provide
language
> | diversity in the context of DNSO decisions.
> | * Consensus -- Recommend to the NC a practical definition of consensus
for
> | the purposes of NC consultation activities.
> | http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-plan/Arc00/doc00003.doc
> |
> | Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.
> |
> <snip>