RE: [gnso-consensus-wg] Updated Draft

["Milton L Mueller" <mueller@xxxxxxx>]

Alan, your points about terminology are well taken. 

On the other hand I think your idea that Nomcom appointees are in
imminent danger of being removed through some conspiracy of hostile
representative groups is far-fetched. To put it mildly. 

 

Is it possible under existing rules to remove Nomcom reps? If it is,
then why would the threat be any greater now than it was before? If it
is not, then let's dispense with the removal and retain the status quo.
My understanding was that Jon's thresholds were all attempts to
translate existing voting thresholds into the terms of the new bicameral
model. 

 

--MM

 

 

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Lastly, I am increasingly uncomfortable with the 75% of one house
threshold to remove a NomCom appointee. This is a perfect setup for some
future House to decide their NomCom appointee is too obstreperous, and
decide to remove them (and with no viable way of a replacement being
selecting in a reasonable time-frame). Given how receptive much of this
WG has been to the idea of NomCom appointees, this simply does not have
a good feel to it. I suggest that 1/2 of the other house must support
removal as well.