[PC-NCSG] NCSG-PC Work for 2015

[Amr Elsadr]

Hi all,

I know I?ve had a really late start to kicking my new duties off for the PC this year. This must have been a disappointment and a pain to most of you. Been busy these past couple of weeks, but promise to do everything I can to make up for it over the course of this year.

I wanted to start off by sharing some thoughts with you on how I see what I need to do to make the PC perform its function more efficiently, and would be grateful for feedback from all of you. These are my ideas on what I should do, but I some tasks may have slipped my mind:

1. Keeping a close eye on open public comment periods; with announcements (+ reminders) to the PC list to determine which issues are important to our membership, and identifying who would take the lead on each open issue. There are obviously some open issues on the table right now, especially in the aftermath of the NCPH intercessional in DC, that I will try to address in separate emails.

2. Sync that with a schedule on getting comments drafted and approved by the committee. I don?t see a reason to change the current consensus building approach we now use. Silence = consent, unless there are thoughts to the contrary.

3. Following up with NCSG members in various GNSO WGs/CWGs. This is important from a PC perspective to prep comments when asked similar to public comment periods. This does not mean I personally plan to update the NCSG wiki space on ongoing PDPs, but at least make sure there is some initiative for NCSG to submit comments when comments are asked for by the different working groups.

4. Asking councillors to take lead on prepping short briefs of motions before council to be delivered to the general membership prior to every monthly NCSG policy call. I know this is more council work than it is PC stuff, but all the councillors are on the PC. Apart from raising awareness on various GNSO policy recommendations amongst the NCSG membership, I?m hoping this will also help inform councillors who are not as up to speed on all of the motions on the meetings? agendas.

5. I will obviously need to help set agendas for the PC meetings that take place at the ICANN public meetings; the first being next month in Singapore.

6. I would like at least one alternate chair to pick up the slack when/if necessary.

Those are what I?ve come up with. Feedback from all of you would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Amr
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