v) nominate and elect Officers of the OWF; vi) supervise and support the leadership team on OWF business and community outreach matters; vii) work with the LFEU on any legal matters that arise; viii) adopt and maintain policies or rules and procedures for the OWF (subject to LFEU’s approval); ix) establish advisory bodies, committees, programs or councils to resolve any particular matter or in support of the mission of the OWF and/or its Technical Projects including in support of end-users and ambassadors for the project any Technical Project; x) establish any OWF conformance programs for its trademarks and solicit input (including testing tools) if deemed necessary from the applicable oversight body of any Technical Project for defining and administering any programs related to conformance with such Technical Project (each, a “Conformance Program”); xi) publish use cases, user stories, websites and priorities to help inform the ecosystem and technical community; xii) approve procedures for the nomination and election of any representative of the General Sponsors to the Governing Board and any Officer or other positions created by the Governing Board; and xiii) vote on all decisions or matters coming before the Governing Board. 4) Government Advisory Council a) The Government Advisory Council (the “GAC”) will provide the OWF advice from government entities approved to participate by the Governing Board. Members of the GAC must be national governments, multinational governmental organizations and treaty organizations, or public authorities. Each may appoint one representative and one alternate representative to the GAC. There are no fees to participate in the GAC. b) The GAC will provide advice to OWF on issues of public policy, and especially where there may be an interaction between OWF's activities and national policies, laws or international agreements. c) The Governing Board may appoint a chairperson of the GAC or delegate responsibility for selecting a chairperson to the GAC. The GAC chairperson or another person chosen by the GAC chairperson will serve as the “GAC Representative” responsible for reporting progress back to the Governing Board and interfacing with the TAC. The GAC Representative may attend meetings of the Governing Board and TAC as a non-voting 8
