RE: [council] Questions for chair

[Adrian Kinderis <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So you would like us to pursue you to secure our vote? Ummm..Sure... OK.

I am not doubting how busy you are. All Councilors are volunteers and dedicate 
important parts of our time to work in the Council. I am not sure this is 
relevant.

The term platform in the context that I raised it is best defined by Wikipedia;

Party Platform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_platform)

A party platform, also known as a 
manifesto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto>, is a list of the actions 
which a political party<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party> supports 
in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party's 
candidates voted into office. This often takes the form of a list of support 
for, or opposition to, controversial topics. Individual topics are often called 
planks of the platform.

I trust this helps.

Adrian Kinderis


From: Olga Cavalli [mailto:olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 9:55 PM
To: Adrian Kinderis
Cc: KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [council] Questions for chair

Adrian,
I am happy to discuss any ideas or views with all the stakeholders, no problem 
with that so feel free to ask me.
The GNSO council list is useful as all the councilors have the chance to see 
the exchange of messages. Next conference call is another possible moment, or 
you can reach me by email or by phone if necessary.
We are all busy as we all have our own activities, but since I was appointed to 
the GNSO three years ago I have devoted an important part of my time to my 
volunteer work in the council, as you can see it described in all the working 
groups and other activities I have been involved in.
I would appreciate if you could clarify the concept "platform" included in your 
first message with questions to me.
Best regards
Olga
2010/11/17 Adrian Kinderis 
<adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Thanks for the response Olga, although I think you missed my question.

Perhaps I'll ask it a different way;

Do you plan on meeting with other Stakeholder groups to discuss your view and 
ideas on Council Leadership and if so when? I am a little surprised that you 
should have to be asked quite frankly. I would have thought it was something 
that you would have sought out. Perhaps you can explain why you haven't?

Thanks for your time.

I know you are busy!

Adrian Kinderis

From: KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx> 
[mailto:KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx>]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:34 PM
To: olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx>; Adrian Kinderis

Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: AW: [council] Questions for chair

Thanks Olga! I think this is also a valuable input for the Cartagena discussion 
on council role.


Regards

Wolf-Ulrich

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Von: Olga Cavalli [mailto:olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx>]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2010 22:59
An: Knoben, Wolf-Ulrich; Adrian Kinderis
Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Betreff: Re: [council] Questions for chair
Hi,
in relation with the questions sent by Adrian and Wolf, these are some comments 
and I am happy to further explain these ideas during the conference call next 
Friday.

Adrian, my mission as a NonCom Appointee is to participate in GNSO with a 
neutral perspective placing the broad public interest ahead of any particular 
interests. In my view, a chair is a facilitator and a coordinator of the work 
of the GNSO, including all different interests and perspectives of all the 
council members and their stakeholder groups as well.

As you may recall, we NCAs could be also non voting members of the GNSO, which 
is the case of Andrei now. So there could be even a non voting chair.

I have shared working teams, drafting teams and several other activities in my 
three years serving the GNSO with almos all of the council members and dialogue 
has been always open, so I am happy to answer any other question or doubt you 
may have.

I would apprecialte if you could clarify the concept "platform" included in 
your question.


Wolf, for me the key issue in the future of GNSO is broaden its perspective 
through outreach.

In the Constituency Operations Working Team that I have chaired as part of the 
GNSO restructuring process, we have produced a very interesting document about 
outreach that is now under final revision by the OSC and will soon will be 
available for GNSO revision. (Special thanks to Debbie Hughes that chaired the 
subworking team, Krista Papac, Claudio DiGangi, Rafik Dammak, Tony Harris and 
Michael Young for their active participation in drafting the document).

If GNSO could broaden participation including a more diverse perspective and 
more active participation from a wider universe, then it would be easier to 
have more participants from different stakeholder groups into different 
projects.

As we learned in the prioritization working group, where you were a very active 
member, all projects have their impact and are relevant and interesting for 
different councilors and for their stakeholdergroups. So if more 
representatives can actively participate in different activities then 
prioritization could be more a managerial issue than a problem of  
administrating lack of time and resources.

In relation with your question on how to "avoid the council's position in the 
policy development process becoming more and more weakened?", again I think 
that the answer is having a GNSO with a broader perspective, and this could be 
achieved through an outreach effort.

I will be happy to explain this further or answer other questions next Thrusday.

Best regards

Olga



2010/11/16 <KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx>>
I've 2 questions to both candidates:


 1.  I'd appreciate a statement from regarding action item 1. from our last 
call (prioritization, see attached). Which specific efforts do you have in mind 
in order to strengthen the council's ability and effectiveness in organizing 
its work?
 2.  With respect to the fact that the board recently took decision on VI 
without having received a specific council recommendation: which measures do 
you have in mind to avoid the council's position in the policy development 
process becoming more and more weakened?

Thanks and regards
Wolf-Ulrich

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Please note the following action items from our Council meeting one week ago:

1.      Assuming we dispense with the prioritization effort, Councilors are 
encouraged to communicate ideas on the Council mailing list on how to make 
decisions regarding whether or not to proceed on a project; the aim would be to 
compile a list of factors that can be used to make choices, and over time 
develop criteria for choosing projects and work items.