RE: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Adopted SCI Review Requests from GNSO Council Meeting 16 April

["Aikman-Scalese, Anne" <AAikman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear SCI Members and Staff,

Many thanks to Avri and staff for obtaining our work orders from the Council.  
Moving forward, we need to:


1.       Address the Office of Vice Chair.  (Lori held this post but has moved 
to the IPC so it may not be appropriate for her to continue in that office 
given that it would result in two officers from the same constituency.)

2.       Set a schedule for our meetings to address the two assigned work items 
and to determine priorities and timelines, e.g. address both items at once with 
subteams or address one item at a time with the whole group?

3.       Discuss the “periodic review” aspect of SCI responsibilities and 
whether or not we need to be doing any work in this regard at this time.

I am thinking it might be best to have a short call with members to address 
these procedural matters before beginning our work on the two assignments from 
Council.

If we stick with the same day and time as in the past, could we do Tuesday, 
April 28 or Tuesday, May 12?  (I am not available Tuesday May 5 due to the 
International Trademark Association Meeting.)

Will members please reply with any thoughts you have regarding the above, 
including call dates?

Thank you,
Anne
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From: owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@xxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:37 AM
To: Julie Hedlund; <gnso-improvem-impl-sc@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Adopted SCI Review Requests from GNSO 
Council Meeting 16 April

Hi,

Thanks for reporting on this and for all your help in getting these written and 
submitted.

So now there are two work items.


avri


On 16-Apr-15 11:43, Julie Hedlund wrote:
Dear SCI members,

As Avri Doria has previously reported, she submitted to the GNSO Council in 
March two SCI review requests (attached).  These were discussed during the 
Council meeting on 19 March, but action on them was deferred to the GNSO 
Council meeting on 16 April.   For reference, here is the link to the 
transcript from the 19 March meeting: 
http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-19mar15-en.pdf.

The two requests were placed on the Consent Agenda for today's GNSO Council 
meeting as follows: (See the agenda at 
http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/agenda-council-16apr15-en.htm.)
"Item 3: Consent agenda (5 mins): 3.1 – Approval to refer two 
matters<http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/drafts> (first submitted to the 
Council on 5 March 2015) to the GNSO's Standing Committee for Improvements 
Implementation (SCI). The 
first<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+16+April+2015>
 concerning GNSO Council practices for proposing, seconding and amendment of 
motions and the 
second<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+16+April+2015>
 on clarifying the Operating Procedures regarding the waiver and resubmission 
of motions."

As there were no requests to have these items removed from the consent agenda, 
the items proceeded to a vote and were adopted.  See the resolutions at: 
http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions. If you wish to review the 
transcript of today's Council meeting it will be posted at: 
http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#apr.  The MP3 is available 
at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-16apr15-en.mp3. For reference 
concerning the Consent Agenda procedures, the relevant section from the GNSO 
Operating Procedures is included below.

Best regards,

Julie

Julie Hedlund, Policy Director

--------Excerpt from the GNSO Council Operating Procedures----------

4.9    Consent Agenda
When preparing the meeting agenda, the Council Chair in consultation with the 
Council Vice-Chairs determines whether an item belongs on the consent agenda. 
All items that are subject to a different voting threshold than a simple 
majority vote (see ICANN Bylaws, Article X, section 3-9) or are subject to 
absentee voting (see section 4.4 – Absentee Voting) are not eligible for 
inclusion in the consent agenda. A numbered list of consent items is included 
as part of the meeting agenda. The list and supporting documents are included 
in the Council agenda in sufficient time to be read by all Council members 
prior to the meeting in accordance with section 3.3 – Notice of Meetings of 
these Operating Procedures.

At the beginning of the meeting, the Chair asks members what items they wish to 
have removed from the consent agenda and discussed individually. If any Council 
member requests that an item be removed from the consent agenda, it must be 
removed. Council members may request that an item be removed for any reason. 
They may wish, for example, to discuss the item, to query the item, or to 
register a vote against the item. If an item is removed from the consent 
agenda, it is added to the meeting agenda for that meeting, unless the Council 
Chair in consultation with the Council Vice-Chairs determines differently.

When there are no more items to be removed, the Chair reads out the number of 
the remaining consent items. Then the Chair calls for a vote.

When preparing the minutes, the full text of (or links to) the resolutions, 
reports or recommendations that were adopted as part of the consent agenda are 
included. In addition the minutes should include a statement regarding the 
composition/threshold that approved the consent agenda.


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