RE: [council] FW: SCI Liaison

[john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Jonathan,


A liaison, by choice, not duress, makes quite a lot of sense.


Berard



--------- Original Message ---------Subject: [council] FW: SCI Liaison
From: "Jonathan Robinson" <jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2/19/13 1:46 am
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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