Re: [council] SCI Liaison

[David Cake <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with your proposed approach. I think one of the existing council 
members that is currently a member of the SCI be made a formal liaison. 

Regards
        David

On 19/02/2013, at 5:46 PM, Jonathan Robinson <jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> All,
>  
> Please see the note below from Ron Andruff, Chair of the Standing Committee 
> on Improvements Implementation.  In general, the responsibility of the SCI is 
> to provide an on-going capability to review GNSO processes and particularly 
> to work on improvements where these processes are seen to have shortcomings.
>  
> My personal feeling is that we should go for solution 1 suggested by Ron 
> below.  This could be supplemented by a variation of 2 i.e. that we invite 
> the Chair &/or VC of the SCI to talk with the Council on specific issues as 
> and when appropriate.
>  
> Currently, Jennifer Wolfe and Wolf-Ulrich Knoben are primary members to the 
> SCI, Thomas Rickert and Jeff Neuman are alternate members. It seems to make 
> sense for one of these to become Council Liaison appointed by the Council.
>  
> Two questions:
>  
> 1.     Any objections to this approach?
> 2.     If not, any volunteers from existing primary members or alternates?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
>  
> Jonathan
>  
>  
> From: Ron Andruff [mailto:randruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 February 2013 18:21
> To: 'Jonathan Robinson'
> Cc: gnso-improvem-impl-sc@xxxxxxxxx; mcole@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: SCI Liaison
>  
> Dear Jonathan,
>  
> Following the recent change of leadership of the Standing Committee on 
> Improvements Implementation (SCI), with the former Chair being a member of 
> the GNSO Council, the SCI is now in a situation where neither the Chair or 
> the Vice-Chair are members of the GNSO Council. At the same time, the SCI is 
> responsible for reviewing and assessing the effective functioning of 
> recommendations that came out of the last GNSO review. 
>  
> The SCI considers it important to have a direct line of communication with 
> the GNSO Council as most of the issues under consideration are a result of 
> GNSO Council requests and SCI recommendations are likely to impact the GNSO 
> Council operations. As a result, the SCI would like to propose that the GNSO 
> Council consider appointing a liaison to the SCI. From the SCI's perspective, 
> such a liaison could be appointed in two different ways: (1) a 'traditional' 
> liaison is appointed by the GNSO Council, i.e. a member of the GNSO Council 
> is appointed to serve as the liaison to the SCI as described in the GNSO 
> Working Groups; or (2) the Chair and/or Vice-Chair of the SCI serve as 
> liaisons to the GNSO Council and are able to participate as observers in GNSO 
> Council meetings either upon invitation (when issues of relevance are 
> discussed) or as standing observers. Obviously it is the GNSO Council's 
> prerogative to decide on the solution that is deemed most appropriate and 
> effective.
>  
> We look forward to receiving your feedback in due course.
>  
> Kind regards,
>  
> RA
>  
> Ronald N. Andruff
> Chair SCI
>