[council] Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) membership

[Glen de Saint Géry]

Dear Councillors,

As reflected in the minutes for our 7 January Council meeting, "The Council agreed to include the following two topics in the Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG) work and agreed that this could be done without modifying the charter: 1) selection of scripts for which single character IDN TLDs should be allowed; 2) method for allocation of single character IDN TLDs."

In that meeting the question was raised whether new members could join the JIG. Note the following in that regard:

- The JIG charter says, "The ccNSO Council will appoint no more than 5 members to the WG in accordance with its own rules and procedures. The GNSO Council will appoint no more than 5 members to the WG in accordance with its own rules and procedures. The chairs of the ccNSO and the GNSO, or somebody they appoint as an alternate, will be ex-officio members of the WG."  Also note that the JIG allows observers.

- At the Council meeting on 3 September (http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-03sep09.htm) the Council confirmed the following GNSO co-chair and volunteers for the Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG): Edmon Chung - gTLD Registries (co-chair); Terry Davis - Nominating Committee Appointee; Stéphane van Gelder - Registrars; Avri Doria - GNSO Council chair (Observer ex-officio); Chuck Gomes - GNSO Council vice-chair (Observer ex-officio).

- In the 7 Jan Council meeting, Rafik Dammak volunteered to serve on the JIG.

- After the 7 Jan. meeting: i) Stéphane communicated that he would be willing to become an observer if his seat was needed for another volunteer; and ii) Avri communicated that she would be interested in continuing  to serve on the JIG if that was possible.

If we accept Stéphane's offer and consider Avri an observer, the currently approved GNSO participants in the JIG are as follows:

	GNSO JIG members
	1. Edmon Chung, Co-Chair (RySG)
	2. Terry Davis (NomCom Appointee)
	
	GNSO JIG observers
	1. Stéphane van Gelder (RrSG)
	2. Avri Doria (NCSG)
	3. Chuck Gomes (Ex-Officio)

Assuming the above, we have three slots open for regular JIG members. Rafik already volunteered for one slot.  That would leave two seats available, which could be filled by any combination of new volunteers, Avri and Stéphane.

If anyone else would like to volunteer to serve as a regular JIG member from the GNSO, please communicate your desire not later than Wednesday, 20 Jan.  If there are no new volunteers, I would recommend that Avri and Stéphane serve as regular JIG members in addition to Rafik.

Whatever happens, we will need to approve new members on 28 January and action will be taken in that regard then.

 
Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org