[council] Possible roles for GNSO vice chair/s
Robin Gross
robin at ipjustice.org
Tue Apr 17 17:15:26 UTC 2007
I agree that it makes sense to start with creating one vice-chair
position and add more if the need arises down the road.
Robin
Ross Rader wrote:
> Philip Sheppard wrote:
>
>> In either case I'm happy to work with Chuck and Bruce in writing a
>> short job description for
>> two vice chairs.
>
>
> Do we need two? I mean, the registrar constituency has the equivalent
> of three, but we also have a larger number of face to face meetings
> per year than council does, and also, a much, much larger number of
> members - the logistical complexity is much, much higher.
>
> Might it make more sense to create one position and leave room for
> more in the future as we come to understand our needs and capacity
> more closely?
>
> Again, I agree with the additional structure, it can only help. But
> I'd like to be deliberate and understand fully what the implications
> of our plans our. I'm not sure that we've adequately considered
> capacity and constraints to the point where "two " is indeed the magic
> number.
>
>> This need not be linked to our timetable for electing the chair
>> though if that's too great a
>> rush.
>
>
> Great idea. We should put some time bounds around completing this task
> however. We have a habit of letting administrative design tasks hang
> around much too long. It might be constructive to assign an arbitrary
> drop dead date to ensure that we continue to move forward in a
> constructive manner.
>
> -r
>
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