[council] Re; Impovements plan - a comment on the compositon of the OSC

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

My issue, one in which I was in a minority in the planning team,  
concerns the membership of the GNSO Operations Steering Committee  
(OSC) (page 12) .

It has been my belief that a representative of any constituency-in- 
formation should be included in the OSC as an participating observer.   
I define constituency-in-formation as one that has reached some status  
as defined in the new constituency process where they are formal  
candidates for acceptance.

I believe that once a serious group of organizers have declared  
themselves publicly and have fulfilled what ever requirements for  
candidacy are set, they will have incurred some degree of expectation  
concerning the way constituency and stakeholder operations are  
organized and will have prepared themselves for membership according  
to those expectations.   If the operational structure is going to  
change while they are in the application process, perhaps even change  
in a way that is detrimental toward their membership possibilities,  
they should have a voice in those deliberations.  This can best be  
achieved by allowing them to participate in the steering Committee  
meetings as observers.

I propose the following amendment to the plan:

In the section "Other Participants in the OSC" on page 12, add:

o 1 representative from any constituencies-in-formation formally  
involved
     in the process of applying for inclusion in one of the GNSO  
Stakeholder
     groups.   The definition of the new constituency process should  
include
     the requirements that need to be met to achieve this status.

While a version of this was in the penultimate version of the draft,  
it was removed during the final discussion on the plan at a meeting I  
could not attend.

As the Planning team in effect rejected this language, I do not  
believe it can accepted as a friendly amendment.  I will therefore  
make it as a motion for amendment to the plan.  If it is seconded, we  
will need to vote on the amendment before voting on the accepting the  
plan itself.

thanks

a.