Re: [council] Motion - GAC Liaison

[Jennifer Gore Standiford <JStandiford@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks James. I second the motion.

Jennifer

On Apr 4, 2016, at 3:36 PM, James M. Bladel 
<jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:


Council Colleagues -

Following the discussion on the list, I am now submitting this motion (attached 
and copied below) for our next meeting. This motion calls for making the GAC 
Liaison a permanent role, and begins the process for selecting Mason Cole’s 
replacement.  For your review, I have also attached the selection process that 
was used previously.

Thank you,

J.

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Motion to confirm the role and process for a GNSO Liaison to the Governmental 
Advisory Committee

Whereas:


1.     As part of the discussions within ICANN between the GNSO and GAC, on how 
to facilitate early engagement of the GAC in GNSO policy development 
activities, the option of appointing a GNSO liaison to the GAC was proposed as 
one of the mechanisms to explore and implemented as a one-year pilot program in 
FY15 on the recommendation of the GAC-GNSO Consultation Group.

2.     The GAC and GNSO Council agreed that additional time was needed to fully 
evaluate this pilot program and as such requested, and received, support for 
continuing the pilot program in FY16.

3.     The GAC-GNSO Consultation Group reviewed the pilot project (see 
http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/review-liaison-gac-pilot-29feb16-en.pdf) and 
has recommended to the GAC and GNSO that ‘the GNSO Liaison to the GAC, in 
conjunction with the other improvements recommended by the GAC-GNSO 
Consultation Group, has positively contributed to the GAC engagement with the 
GNSO, and recommends that the GNSO Liaison to the GAC is transformed from a 
pilot project to a permanent role’.

4.     The GAC and GNSO discussed the review of the pilot project during their 
joint session at the ICANN meeting in Marrakesh.

5.     The GNSO Council reviewed the ‘Request for Candidates – GNSO Liaison to 
the GAC’ which includes the proposed call for volunteers, application and 
evaluation process (see [include link].

Resolved:


1.     The GNSO Council hereby confirms that the GNSO Liaison to the GAC is to 
become a permanent role at the start of FY17 (1 July 2016) and adopts the 
‘Request for Candidates – GNSO Liaison to the GAC’ as the requirements, process 
and procedures for this role (see [include link]).

2.     The GNSO Council instructs the GNSO Secretariat to distribute the 
request for candidates to the GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies in 
accordance with the timeline outlined in the ‘Request for Candidates – GNSO 
Liaison to the GAC’.

3.     The Council thanks Mason Cole who has been fulfilling this role for the 
last two years and looks forward to working with him during the remainder of 
his term.

<Motion to confirm the role and process of GNSO Liaison to the GAC - 30 March 
2016[1].docx>
<GNSO Liaison to the GAC - call for candidates - updated 30 March 2016.doc>