<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Hello Carlos and everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks so much for the kind words – as I mentioned, this is still a draft document so we welcome your suggestions for clarifications and improvements. The plan is that this document will also eventually feed into some of the other PDP Improvements work.</div><div><div><br></div>Your specific point about the linkage between a group and its members, especially as it relates to the GNSO Council, is an interesting one. There’s currently no requirement that Council members have to be part of any particular type of group, so maybe we are assuming too much about what people, especially newcomers, know (or do not) about the Council’s role vis-a-vis that of a Drafting Team, a Working Group and so on. We can look into adding a link to the relevant GNSO operating procedures, e.g. the PDP Manual and Working Group Guidelines, perhaps via a footnote saying something like “For specific information about how the GNSO Council functions in relation to these structures and mechanisms, see [document].”</div><div><br></div><div>One additional entry that your email caused us to think about is possibly adding another entry for “Council liaison”, which is when a Council member is appointed to serve as a liaison between the Council and a Working Group. That may help reinforce the point above as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again, and we hope this document continues to be useful!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Mary</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Mary Wong</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Senior Policy Director</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Telephone: +1 603 574 4889</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Email: mary.wong@icann.org</font></font></div><div><br></div></div><div> </div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez <<a href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org">crg@isoc-cr.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 08:50<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Mary Wong <<a href="mailto:mary.wong@icann.org">mary.wong@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [council] Draft list of definitions and descriptions of GNSO structures and mechanisms<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">
Dear Mary,
<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">this is excellent information, thank you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I still miss some reaction between the type of groups and its members (first lista as related to the second one), clearing probable questions like:</div><div class="">minimum number of councillors that have to be part of the group? if the chairs need to be members of the council? in which cases it makes a difference between a council member as opposed to a member of the respective constituency?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think this would help motivate constituency members to take a much more active role in the processes, and not expect that just the council members do all the work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">_____________________</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">email: </span><a href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org" class="">crg@isoc-cr.org</a><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Skype: carlos.raulg</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">+506 8837 7173 (cel)</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">+506 4000 2000 (home)</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">+506 2290 3678 (fax)</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">_____________________</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Apartado 1571-1000</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">San Jose, COSTA RICA</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 11, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Mary Wong <<a href="mailto:mary.wong@icann.org" class="">mary.wong@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span id="cid:88D20BCC-962A-47C9-BFAC-0FF9C3AF973B@tigo.co.cr"><Table of GNSO Structures & Mechanisms - DRAFT - 11 August 2015.docx></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></span></body></html>