Re: [council] SCI Liaison

[Mason Cole <mcole@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree as well, Jonathan.  (1) makes sense.

Mason


On Feb 19, 2013, at 3:13 AM, David Cake wrote:

> 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
>>  
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