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

[Mary.Wong at law.unh.edu]

I agree, and thanks, Robin, for getting the details started. The draft you circulated about the Chair's role sounds good, and I also agree that it can be a fair bit of work. Avri's suggestion of an Alternate Chair is a great one. 

And may I vote for Wendy as Chair while I'm at it? :) 

And nominate Avri for Alternate Chair? :) :)


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From:  
Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> 

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Date:  
2/2/2013 4:05 PM 

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

> 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

Yes, I nominate Wendy as PC chair.

No, i did not ask her first.

cheers,

avri

On 2 Feb 2013, at 11:55, Robin Gross wrote:

> 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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