[IPC-GNSO] VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED: Call for Volunteers for GNSO Drafting Team on New Roles and Obligations

[Chantelle Doerksen]

Dear all,
A call for Volunteers for the GNSO Drafting Team on New Roles and Obligations has been put forth. Please consider volunteering for this on behalf of the IPC
Due date to submit materials is July 22. 2016 to gnso-secs at icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs at icann.org>.
Kindly CC Kiran and myself (Chantelle) on your email to gnso-secs at icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs at icann.org>, so we can note your role on behalf of the IPC.

Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Chantelle

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Dear GNSO Councilors,



Please see the following Call for Volunteers.



Kind regards,



Nathalie





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Call for Volunteers: GNSO Drafting Team to Further Develop Recommendations to

Implement the GNSO's New Roles and Obligations Under the Revised ICANN Bylaws





In Brief



Per the motion adopted on 30 June 2016, the Generic Names Supporting

Organization (GNSO) Council seeks volunteers for a Drafting Team to further

develop recommendations to implement the GNSO's new roles and obligations under

the post-transition ICANN Bylaws.





What This Team Will Do



The Drafting Team will work with ICANN staff to fully identify all the new or

additional rights and responsibilities that the GNSO has under the

post-transition Bylaws, including but not limited to participation of the GNSO

within the Empowered Community, and to develop new or modified structures and

procedures (as necessary) to fully implement these new or additional rights and

responsibilities.



The Drafting Team shall provide the GNSO Council with an implementation plan,

which will have the consensus of the Drafting Team, including any

recommendations for needed further changes to ICANN Bylaws and/or GNSO

Operating Procedures to enable effective GNSO participation in ICANN activities

under the revised ICANN Bylaws, not later than 30 September 2016.



As part of the process of its consideration of the implementation plan,

intended to be approved by a GNSO supermajority vote, the Council may further

request that the Drafting Team work with ICANN staff to develop new, or propose

modifications to existing, procedures and structures to implement the revised

Bylaws for the GNSO. Any such new, or proposed modifications to existing

procedures and structures to implement the revised Bylaws for the GNSO are also

intended to be approved by a GNSO supermajority vote.





How to Join

Volunteers for the Drafting Team will be identified by GNSO Council members.

Volunteers should express interests and can demonstrate reasonable knowledge of

or experience with the process of revising the ICANN Bylaws or GNSO Operating

Procedures. The Drafting Team shall reflect the current composition of the GNSO

and as such, the GNSO Council may review the number of volunteers identified by

the GNSO Council members. GNSO Councilors are requested to identify volunteers

by email to gnso-secs at icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs at icann.org> by 22 July 2016.





Next Steps



As noted above, the GNSO Council directed that this call for volunteers be

circulated to the GNSO Council and that the volunteers should be identified by

GNSO Council members. It is anticipated that the Drafting Team will convene

online for the first time in early August 2016. Following that, regular online

meetings will be scheduled in accordance with the Drafting Team's work plan,

which it is expected to develop as one of its first tasks.





Further Information and Preparation



For those interested in volunteering for this effort, you are encouraged to

review the  table at:

http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/revised-bylaws-notes-comments-procedures-14jun16-en.pdf.





Background



On 27 May 2016 the ICANN Board adopted a set of new ICANN Bylaws, as revised on

26 May 2016, that aim to reflect changes needed to implement the IANA

Stewardship Transition Proposal and such adoption is contingent on the proposed

transition away of remaining United States Government oversight of ICANN.  The

Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council is aware that changes that

may need to be made to the GNSO's current Operating Procedures and related

mechanisms and to the ICANN Bylaws in order to give effect to new roles and

obligations of the GNSO under the new Bylaws, such as those in this table

(http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/revised-bylaws-notes-comments-procedures-14jun16-en.pdf),

 including but not limited to the GNSO's participation in the Empowered

Community.  Per the motion adopted on 30 June 2016, the Generic Names

Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council seeks volunteers for a Drafting Team to

further develop recommendations to implement the GNSO's new roles and

obligations under the revised ICANN Bylaws.


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