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

[Kathy Kleiman]

I also support Chuck's approach, and for the reasons he lays out. I 
would support a discussion of this issue upfront - our WG leadership 
team - before we take any names or nominations.
Best, Kathy Kleiman

On 1/26/2016 5:23 AM, Farell Folly wrote:
> Hello Chuck,
>
> I approve your approach. See you this afternoon.
>
> Meilleures salutations,
>
> --ff--
>
> 2016-01-25 21:56 GMT+01:00 Gomes, Chuck <cgomes at verisign.com 
> <mailto:cgomes at verisign.com>>:
>
>     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:
>
>     o2 co-chairs & 2 co-vice-chairs
>
>     o1 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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