Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Re-Submitting a Motion - Revision 20 February

[<Mary.Wong@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the quick turnaround, Julie! 

It looks fine to me - one question I had for everyone, in light of some of the 
discussion earlier today, is whether we ought to include a short explanatory 
note after setting out the options. Basically, I had in mind something like 
this: 

Notes: 
- 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 are conjunctive criteria, i.e. all three steps have to be 
completed. 
- 2.3 and 2.4 relate only to how the resubmitted motion is placed back on the 
Council's agenda, i.e. they take place prior to the Council's actually 
discussing (and voting on) the actual substance of the resubmitted motion, and 
allow for the possibility of there being a vote on whether to accept the 
resubmission itself in the first place. 

Cheers 
Mary


Mary W S Wong
Professor of Law
Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
Chair, Graduate IP Programs
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
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Concord, NH 03301
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Email: mary.wong@xxxxxxxxxxx
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From:  
Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@xxxxxxxxx> 

To: 
"gnso-improvem-impl-sc@xxxxxxxxx" <gnso-improvem-impl-sc@xxxxxxxxx> 

Date:  
2/20/2013 6:15 PM 

Subject:  
[gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Re-Submitting a Motion - Revision 20 February 

Dear SCI members, 



Based on our discussion today, please see below revised options.  Please let me 
know if you have any changes.  Once the SCI agrees to the options for 
consideration, the action is for members to circulate them to their 
Constituencies and Stakeholder Groups.  These also are posted to the wiki. 



Best regards, 



Julie 



Julie Hedlund, Policy Director 



Possible Options for Addressing the Re-Submission of a Motion: 



1.  Leave up to discretion of the Chair 



2.  Set one or more high-level criteria (in this order): 



1)  Provide a reasoning to justify the resubmission of a motion. Complete no 
later than the deadline for submitting a motion --  8 days prior to  the next 
GNSO Council meeting. 

2)  Publish the text of the re-submitted motion. Complete no later than the 
deadline for submitting a motion --  8 days prior to  the next GNSO Council 
meeting. 

3)  Require a seconder of the motion from each house as a prerequisite for 
placing the re-submission of the motion on the consent agenda. 

4)  Allow a councilor to ask for the re-submission of the motion to be taken 
off the consent agenda and to request a Council vote on whether to accept the 
re-submission.