[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] RDS PDP WG Leadership

[James Galvin]

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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