[council] GNSO Website

[Stéphane Van Gelder]

Thanks for some excellent suggestions Bill, which I think should be carried over into the Prague session on the site if there is one so that a list of enjoying site improvements can be worked on.

Stéphane Van Gelder
Directeur Général / General manager
INDOM Group NBT France
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Head of Domain Operations
Group NBT

Le 28 mai 2012 à 10:17, William Drake a écrit :

> On May 28, 2012, at 8:59 AM, <KnobenW at telekom.de> <KnobenW at telekom.de> wrote:
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>> Even your picture looks so fresh, Stéphane...
>>  
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> 
> I find it kind of scary, but then as a small child I was afraid of clowns…[kidding]
> 
> The site is of course an improvement, many thanks. At the same time, one could argue some further tweaks might be merited.  Just off the top of my head over morning coffee, a few thoughts for consideration:
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> 1.  Looking at the descriptions of the SGs and constituencies, one can't help note that there significant asymmetries in style and substance.  Some don't really tell the visitor much about about what the group in question actually does or what its driving priorities are.  Perhaps it'd make sense to have those groups do their own texts within some defined patterns for conformity?  
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> 2.  I also wonder why only two of four have behavioral standards listed: for Rgy these are: "The behavioral expectations of all RySG members, Interest Groups and participants include adhering to ICANN Bylaws and Policies; supporting the consensus model; treating others with dignity, respect, courtesy, and civility; listening attentively to understand others; acting with honesty, sincerity, and integrity; and maintaining community good standing."
> 
> NGSC is apparently singularly in need enough to require an enumerated list: 
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> The NCSG is committed to the following:
> 	• Nondiscriminatory and impartial application of rules.
> 	• Transparency
> 	• Service standards for elected officers.
> 	• Standards of member behavior.
> 	• Equality of participation.
> 	• Encourage Consensus.
> 
> No similar language for Rgr or CSG.
> 
> As the same standards should be applicable to all groups, why not list these once at http://gnso.icann.org/about/stakeholder-groups.htm
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> and focus the remaining texts on descriptions provided by the groups themselves?
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> 3.  While the other three SGs follow a pictorial template of ExCom, Councilors, NGSG's is an odd mishmash that intermingles the two in a single column, apparently to additionally show internal details like committee assignments.  Not clear that's necessary and we couldn't be organized like the others.
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> 4.  NCUC's page is out of date, as Konstantinos has stepped down as chair since he took a job with ISOC.  Our Interim Chair is now David Cake.  And the correct URL to point to is www.ncuc.org 
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> 5.  The how to participate page http://gnso.icann.org/about/participation.htm could start off by being clearer about joining a constituency/SG as logical and preferred starting point, with links to how.  The link on how to form a new one could be grouped with that.  The only mention of the GA is as a listserv at http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/index.htm.  Perhaps understandable given the prevalence of troll content etc, but it does exist and one can't help wondering whether it should be left in its current state.
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> 6.  Would it be useful to have dedicated spaces on the home page for total newbies that lead to a step by step walk through of GNSO, how it fits in ICANN, how PDPs work, "so you're attending your first ICANN meeting," etc?  Similarly, and further to the diffuse outreach discussions going on in various places, perhaps something similar related to people for developing countries who want to know more and might want to participant could be useful…
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> Just a few cents,
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Bill
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> 

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