Re: [council] "Improvements" Planning Efforts

["Olga Cavalli" <olgac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Avri,
I am interested in participating in the group, if it is possible,
considering size of the group and that I am a noncomm appointee.
Regards
Olga






2008/3/18, Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>:
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> Hi,
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> Attached a copy of a message that is being sent to the Board concerning
> work that is beginning on the GSNO Improvements.  As you  will note we
> have started a planning group together with the staff.    This group
> is going
> to be doing the  high level planning of how we will organize the main
> work
> of the GNSO Improvements Project, and will not be responsible for any
> substantive decisions or recommendations about the improvements
> themselves.
>
> Currently Chuck and I as well as several members of the ICANN Policy
> staff,
> including Denise, Liz and Rob, are members of this group.  This is
> just the
> core of this group. We have invited the Board BGC GNSO Review Working
> Group to add a member to this group and need to add more GNSO members.
> We want to satisfy three goals simultaneously in adding members to the
> group;
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> - insure that a diverse set of perspectives is included in the
> planning group
> - include some participants with relevant organizational experience
> - keep the group small.
>
> In the GNSO Improvements Project we will not need to restrict ourselves
> to council members, but for this planning committee, I would suggest
> that
> we do choose from among council members and constituency members.
> I also think that adding a person from each constituency might be
> unwieldy
> and hope that we can limit participation to a few people who can be
> trusted
> in this planning task by several constituencies.  As you can read in
> the note
> below, we are planing to organize several other Standing Committees and
> other work teams and there will be a large number of opportunities for
> participation by council members, constituency members, and others in
> the
> ICANN community in the groups making the actual recommendations.
>
> I would like to initiate  conversations on the list on the designation
> of 2-3 other
> members of this group.  I would like to resolve this as soon as
> possible, with
> resolution during our upcoming meeting at the latest if not before.
>
> Thanks
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