[NCSG-PC] Fwd: [council] FW: Draft Motion: Preliminary Adoption of the GNSO Standing Selection Committee (SSC) Charter

[Stephanie Perrin]

In case anyone has lost track of what in fact we are talking about here, 
I am forwarding the discussion from the GNSO meeting in Copenhagen.

cheers Stephanie


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Subject: 	[council] FW: Draft Motion: Preliminary Adoption of the GNSO 
Standing Selection Committee (SSC) Charter
Date: 	Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:10:24 +0000
From: 	Susan Kawaguchi <susank at fb.com>
To: 	council at gnso.icann.org <council at gnso.icann.org>



Resending as I have not seen this appear on the list.

*From: *Susan Kawaguchi <susank at fb.com>
*Date: *Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 12:24 AM
*To: *"Austin, Donna" <Donna.Austin at neustar.biz>, "James M. Bladel" 
<jbladel at godaddy.com>, GNSO Council List <council at gnso.icann.org>
*Subject: *Re: [council] Draft Motion: Preliminary Adoption of the GNSO 
Standing Selection Committee (SSC) Charter

Thank you Donna for the edits to clarify the motion.

Ed and I both feel strongly that we adhere to the following language 
which allows for a rotation of stakeholder group candidates for review 
team selection.  We agree that first and foremost that qualified 
candidates should be selected but as there are no shortage of candidates 
applying for the review teams historically we believe that the SSC can 
select qualified candidates and ensure that all SG’s are represented in 
the on going process.

/In order to achieve balance and diversity on the Review Teams, a system 
of rotation shall be applied to Review Team selections. Any Stakeholder 
Group which nominated candidates(s) for a Review Team but did not have a 
candidate ranked in the top three for that Review Team shall be 
guaranteed to have an applicant from their Stakeholder Group ranked in 
the top three for the next three GNSO Review Team appointment processes./

//

Hope to discuss this more on the council/. /

Susan

*From: *<council-bounces at gnso.icann.org> on behalf of "Austin, Donna" 
<Donna.Austin at neustar.biz>
*Date: *Friday, March 3, 2017 at 11:00 AM
*To: *"James M. Bladel" <jbladel at godaddy.com>, GNSO Council List 
<council at gnso.icann.org>
*Subject: *Re: [council] Draft Motion: Preliminary Adoption of the GNSO 
Standing Selection Committee (SSC) Charter

James, all

I’ve made a number of changes to the attached motion and also raised a 
couple of questions for consideration.

On the substantive issues.

Membership:

I have a strong preference to make this a small group and as such opt 
for membership per SG as described in Option 1. My reading of the 
Charter is that Option 1 membership also includes the non-voting 
nominating committee appointee to the Council and the GNSO Leadership 
Team would also serve as ex-officio members. This means 8 members of the 
Council would make up the SSC.

Option 2 would result in the SSC comprising 11 members of the Council.

Diversity:

During our discussions of the charter, some have argued that it should 
be more prescriptive with regards to ensuring that there is a 
fair/balanced rotation among SGs with regard to candidates 
nominated/selected for positions. I agree that this is a consideration 
that the SSC should take into account throughout the selection 
processes, but this consideration should also be balanced in terms of 
ensuring that the candidate also has the necessary skills to make a 
valuable contribution to the role. I believe the language currently in 
the charter adequately provides for diversity and representativeness:

/7.            The SSC shall strive as far as possible to achieve 
balance, representativeness, diversity and sufficient expertise 
appropriate for the applicable selection process./

However, given the SSC will be conducting a review of the charter after 
applying it to two selection processes, if the SSC believes this is not 
adequate they can recommend changes.

Selection:

While I have concerns about the use of full consensus, consensus etc. 
primarily because I would hate to think that we would ever be in a 
situation where we have minority view positions coming out of any SSC 
selection process, I think this is something that the SSC could also 
consider when they review the charter.

Thanks

Donna

*From:*council-bounces at gnso.icann.org 
[mailto:council-bounces at gnso.icann.org] *On Behalf Of *James M. Bladel
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 01, 2017 6:43 PM
*To:* GNSO Council List <council at gnso.icann.org>
*Subject:* [council] Draft Motion: Preliminary Adoption of the GNSO 
Standing Selection Committee (SSC) Charter

Councilors –

Attached and copied below, please find a Draft Motion for the adoption 
of the Standing Selection Committee (SSC) Draft Charter (also attached, 
but unchanged since our call).  Note that we still have yet to address 
some open questions on the SSC charter, in particular how the SSC is 
comprised (SGs or Cs), how it reaches its decisions, and whether or not 
to require it to rotate selected candidates.

Please continue discussions on our list in order to make the most of our 
time together in Copenhagen.


Thank you,

J.

*Motion – Preliminary Adoption of GNSO Standing Selection Committee 
(SSC) Charter*

**

Whereas,

1.The GNSO Council expressed the desire to develop a set of criteria and 
a uniform process for the selection of GNSO representatives to future 
Review Teams, including for the various reviews mandated by the ICANN 
Bylaws, and other ICANN structures for which the GNSO will need to 
appoint, nominate or endorse candidates

2.A small team of Council members worked on such a set of criteria and a 
uniform process which resulted in a proposed Charter to create a GNSO 
Standing Selection Committee that will conduct future selections based 
on agreed, uniform criteria and a documented process (see [include link].

3.The Council reviewed the charter and discussed that as this is a new 
entity and approach, it would be desirable to test out the process and 
criteria outlined in the charter by: 1) Preliminarily adopting the 
charter, 2) Form the SSC, 3) Task the SSC to at a minimum carry out 2 
selection / nomination processes, 4) Review the results as well as the 
selection / nomination process on the basis of input provided by the 
SSC, 5) Confirm the GNSO SSC Charter as is, or, as modified based on the 
review.

Resolved,

1.The GNSO Council preliminarily adopts the GNSO Standing Selection 
Committee (SSC) Charter (see [include link] and instructs the GNSO 
Secretariat to launch a call for volunteers per the membership criteria 
outlined in the SSC Charter as soon as possible.

2.The GNSO Council instructs the SSC to begin the review of GNSO 
endorsed candidates for the RDS Review Team, and propose its recommended 
slate of selected Members, along with any Alternates, for Council 
consideration at the latest by its 20 April 2017 meeting.

3.The GNSO Council instructs the SSC to develop the criteria and the 
process for the selection of the GNSO Representative to the Empowered 
Community for GNSO Council consideration by its June 2017 meeting, and 
following the approval by the GNSO Council, carry out the selection 
process for this role.

4.At the completion of these two tasks, the GNSO Council requests the 
SSC to report back to the GNSO Council with its assessment of whether 
the charter provides sufficient guidance and flexibility to carry out 
its work, and/or whether any modifications should be considered.

5.The GNSO Council thanks the small group of volunteers, Susan 
Kawaguchi, Ed Morris, Valerie Tan, and the GNSO Council leadership team, 
for its work on the charter.

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