GCOT
GCOT is an abbreviation for the GNSO OSC Constituency & Stakeholder Group Operations Team. It is also known as the GNSO Council Operations Work Team. It was established by the GNSO Operations Steering Committee (OSC) to identify the areas which required to be reviewed to make them perfect to seat the new Council and to provide recommendations to update areas and submit them to the OSC for reviewing and feedback. [1]
Tasks assigned to GCOT
The GCOT was assigned with task of handling cross-constituency effort to review the existing operating rules of the GNSO. It was also assigned with the task of reviewing the existing procedures of the GNSO operating procedures and recommends any necessary changes that would be in conjunction with the goal of the GNSO Council. It was mostly asked to be in a strategic manager of the policy process. [2]
Work of GCOT
In the year 2009, the GCOT developed a set of recommendations concerning to seat the new GNSO Council at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Seoul, South Korea. The GNSO Council approved the recommendations provided by the GCOT for the new GNSO Operating Council. GCOT also provided some further recommendations regarding the amendments in the GNSO Operating Procedure. These amendments were mostly proposed in accordance with the Board’s GNSO Improvements Report.
GCOT also completed and submitted certain documents of its recommendations which it thought needed to be incorporated in the GNSO Operating procedures (GOP). The recommendations it proposed were mainly regarding the Council Member Term Limits, Board Seat Elections, Absences and Vacancies, Voting and Statements and Disclosures of Interest. Out of these, some of its recommendations from the Statements and Disclosures of Interest are still being approved by the Staff Action and are waiting for the approval by the OSC and Council. [2]
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