[council] Notice on Statement of Interest SOI Procedures

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear GNSO Councilors and Community Members,

According to the GNSO Operating Procedures 
<http://gnso.icann.org/council/gnso-op-procedures-08apr11-en.pdf>, Chapter 
5-Statements of Interest, Section 5.3.2-Electronic Form and Publication, "To 
ensure consistency, ICANN Staff shall develop, maintain, and provide to 
Relevant Parties an electronic Statement of Interest form including procedures 
and instructions pertaining to its completion online."  To comply with the 
requirement for an online form, the ICANN staff worked with the GNSO Standing 
Committee on Improvements Implementation to develop the form.  After much 
testing, the form is ready for GNSO individuals in newly chartered Working 
Groups and GNSO Councilors to use, both to enter new Statements of Interest 
(SOIs), and to provide changes to SOIs  Note in particular that revised SOIs 
provided with the new online form will replace the SOIs created under the old 
procedures, although these previous SOIs will still exist in the archives.

The features of the new online form include:


 *   All SOIs located in one convenient area within the official GNSO Wiki site;
 *   An online form set up according to the new SOI procedures;
 *   The option for the person creating the SOI to restrict editing rights once 
the new SOI page has been created;
 *   The ability for Working Groups and teams to reference the Wiki SOI page 
link when building a membership roster; and
 *   The ability to browse and search all SOIs in the Wiki space.

The SOI Wiki site is located at: 
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/GNSO+Statements+of+Interest+%28SOI%29.
  You will need to use your Confluence Login ID and Password to access this 
space within the Wiki site.  If you are a new Confluence user these will be 
provided to you.   If you have already been given a Confluence Login ID and 
Password but cannot locate them please let us know.

We do encourage you to provide feedback on your use of the form so that we can 
continue to make improvements.  Please send your comments and questions to 
Julie Hedlund, Policy Director, at julie.hedlund@xxxxxxxxx.

Warm regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Gery
GNSO Secretariat