[PC-NCSG] Duties of the Role of the Chair of the NCSG Policy Committee

[Robin Gross]

Dear NCSG-PC Members:

We should elect a Chair of the NCSG Policy Committee to help better  
organize and track NCSG's participation in ICANN policy development.   
We never really talked about what duties should be undertaken by the  
person who is elected to serve as NCSG-PC's Chair, but we should  
before we elect one, so everyone is clear about expectations and  
responsibilities.  It seems there are 4 basic duties that we need our  
NCSG-PC Chair to be responsible for and I've tried to outline them  
below.  This is just a first stab to get the conversation going of  
what we need so feel free to suggest more or less than what is  
below.  It also occurs to me that because this is not an  
insignificant undertaking, we may want to consider having a PC Chair  
and also an Alternate Chair to share responsibility, or otherwise  
divide the labor and responsibility so it isn't all on one person.   
Thoughts?

Best,
Robin


Duties of the Role of the Chair of the NCSG Policy Committee:

1.  Comment Periods
Keep track of ICANN public comment periods and assist with drafting  
and filing of member comments in coordination with NCSG-PC members,  
NCSG working group representatives and other NCSG members and  
constituencies.  This means encouraging both individual NCSG members  
to file individual comments and also the drafting and filing of  
official NCSG statements.  For NCSG statements, NCSG-PC Chair will  
call for "rough consensus" of NCSG-PC members regarding any  
particular statement and determine the reaching of rough consensus as  
per NCSG Charter.

2. Other NCSG Statements
Organize the drafting of other policy statements made in NCSG's name  
including the specific policy issue summaries requested by CEO (aka  
"policy cheat sheets").  NCSG-Chair does not have to personally "hold  
the drafting pen" on every statement, but rather, the Chair will  
recruit the person responsible for holding the drafting pen on any  
particular statement.

3.  Working Groups
Keep track of GNSO and other ICANN policy working groups and  
encourage participation from NCSG members in those policy working  
groups.  Endeavor to find adequate NCSG member participation and  
other noncommercial expertise in the policy working groups of concern  
to NCSG members.

4.  NCSG Policy Calls
Participate in the monthly NCSG Policy calls and send out a brief  
"voting guide" after the call to NCSG-PC members to summarize  
discussions on how NCSG GNSO Councilors intend to vote on motions  
pending before the next GNSO Council Meeting.




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