[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] RDS PDP WG Leadership
James Galvin
jgalvin at afilias.info
Tue Jan 26 13:23:04 UTC 2016
I support this approach in principle.
I don’t feel strongly about the list of stakeholders but I am
sensitive to Don’s comment about restricting the leadership to those
who represent an actual stakeholder.
How do folks feel about adding a 5th leader who is an “independent”?
Unfortunately, I have a conflict for the meeting today and will not be
able to attend. It’s a one time conflict and I will otherwise be
available.
Thanks,
Jim
On 25 Jan 2016, at 15:56, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> In my personal capacity as a volunteer for the RDS PDP WG I would like
> to propose the following approach to the WG leadership that I think
> would be very helpful in facilitating our productivity:
>
> * Have a leadership team consisting of 4 WG members plus the
> ICANN staff support personnel.
>
> * Have one leader from each of the four GNSO Stakeholder
> Groups (SGs):
>
> 1. Non-Commercial SG (NCSG)
>
> 2. Commercial SG (CSG)
>
> 3. Registrars SG (RrSG)
>
> 4. Registries SG (RySG).
>
> * The four leaders could serve in one of two ways:
>
> o 2 co-chairs & 2 co-vice-chairs
>
> o 1 chair & 3 co-vice chairs.
>
> In recent years in the GNSO, a team leadership approach for WGs and
> even for the GNSO Council itself has proved to be quite effective. It
> not only spreads the workload around but more importantly it allows
> for a small team of experienced people to collaborate together in
> leading the group's efforts. Here are a few examples where a
> collaborative leadership team have been used:
>
> * The GNSO Council has a chair plus two vice chairs.
>
> * The Policy & Implementation WG had two co-chairs and two
> vice-chairs.
>
> * The CWG Stewardship has two co-chairs.
>
> * The CCWG Accountability has three co-chairs.
>
> By adding a condition that each of the leadership team members come
> from different SGs, it ensures that the chairs and vice chairs
> collectively have expertise about all four of the GNSO stakeholder
> groups and creates a situation where the leaders are well versed in
> the varying viewpoints that exist across all four groups as well as
> differences within their respective groups. I believe that this is
> especially important for an area such as Registration Data Services
> (Whois) that has been very controversial over the entirety of ICANN's
> history.
>
> For those that are new to GNSO policy development processes, any
> recommendations made by a WG have to eventually be approved by the
> GNSO Council, which primarily consists of the four SGs. So Having all
> SGs involved in the leadership of the WG from the beginning should
> facilitate approval in the end.
>
> It is important to remember that the role of the leadership team is to
> facilitate bottom-up multi-stakeholder policy development in a neutral
> and effective manner using a consensus based approach. This of course
> means managing meetings and online work to ensure that the WG charter
> requirements are satisfied. Hopefully, in most cases this will mean
> guiding the full group in developing recommendations that most if not
> all of the WG members can support. But, after diligent efforts to
> reach consensus, there is still significant divergence about certain
> proposed recommendations, it will be the leaders responsibility to
> decide whether there is sufficient support in the WG to submit such
> recommendations to the GNSO Council. Understanding this, it is
> important that each SG endorse the person on the leadership team from
> its group.
>
> I hope that we can confirm whether or not there is support for this
> approach in our WG call tomorrow. If there is, then it will guide our
> efforts in finding qualified members to serve on the leadership team
> as well as how to structure the team (2 co-chairs + 2 co-vice-chairs
> or 1 chair + 3 co-vice-chairs).
>
> I would be happy to respond to any questions anyone has.
>
> Chuck Gomes
>
> P.S. - For those that do not know me, my Statement of Interest (SOI)
> can be found here:
> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Chuck+Gomes+SOI
>
>
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