[council] MOTION RE. GCOT & CSG RECOMMENDATIONS

[Gomes, Chuck]

As one of the Councilors on the OSC, I am hereby making the motion
pasted below and attached regarding the OSC GCOT & CSG recommendations.
A second is welcome.

Chuck

MOTION RE. GCOT & CSG RECOMMENDATIONS 

WHEREAS, in October 2008, the GNSO Council established a framework
<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-impl
ementation-plan-16oct08.pdf>  for implementing the various GNSO
Improvements <http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun08.htm>
identified and approved by the ICANN Board of Directors on 26 June 2008;

WHEREAS, that framework included the formation, in January 2009, of two
Steering Committees, the Operations Steering Committee (OSC) and the
Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC), to charter and coordinate the
efforts of five community work teams in developing specific
recommendations to implement the improvements;

WHEREAS, the OSC established three work teams, including the GNSO
Council Operations Work Team (GCOT)
<https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?gnso_operations_team>  and the
Constituency and Stakeholder Group Operations Work Team (CSG-WT)
<https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?constituency_operations_team>
, which were chartered to focus on specific operational areas addressed
in the BGC Report
<http://www.icann.org/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-
03feb08.pdf>  recommendations;

WHEREAS, the GCOT has completed and submitted certain documents that it
recommends be incorporated into the GNSO Operating Procedures (GOP) as
follows:   
*	Section 2.1-Council Member Term Limits
<http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-term-limits-24may
10-en.pdf>  
*	Section 2.4-Board Seat Elections
<http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-board-seat-electi
ons-24may10-en.pdf>  
*	Section 3.8-Absences and Vacancies
<http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-absences-vacancie
s-11jun10-en.pdf>  
*	Chapter 4.0-Voting
<http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-voting-11jun10-en
.pdf>   
*	Chapter 5.0-Statements and Disclosures of Interest
<http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-soi-doi-11jun10-e
n.pdf>   
o	Note that two sections, 5.3.2 and 5.3.3, are not approved
pending further Staff action to be determined.  These sections are
footnoted in the document as "inactive" until subsequently approved by
the OSC and Council. 

WHEREAS, the CSG-WT has completed and submitted the following document
that it recommends be approved for implementation within the GNSO:
*	Recommended Common Operating Principles and Participation
Guidelines for GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies; and
<http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-csg-recommendations-task-27may10-en.
pdf> 
			Recommendations on a GNSO Database of Community
Members
<http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-csg-recommendations-task-27may10-en.
pdf>  

WHEREAS, the OSC has approved the above referenced GCOT amendments to
the GOP and the CSG-WT recommendations and has forwarded these documents
(via embedded links) to the GNSO Council on or before 15 June 2010; 

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:

RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council accepts these deliverables submitted by
the Work Teams and approved by the OSC and directs Staff to post these
aforementioned documents for twenty-one (21) days in the ICANN Public
Comment Forum.  

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council shall take formal action on
these documents, including potential modification, as soon as possible
after the conclusion of the public comment period.   

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