AW: [gnso-osc-ops] GNSO Ops Procedures Section 4-Voting: Next Steps

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Ray,
 
I follow your suggestion. We should subbmit it to the OSC as soon as
possible.
 

Kind regards
Wolf-Ulrich Knoben

 

 

 

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Von: owner-gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx]
Im Auftrag von Ray Fassett
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 18:27
An: 'gnso-osc-ops'
Cc: 'Ken Bour'; 'Julie Hedlund'; Glen@xxxxxxxxx; 'Gisella Gruber-White';
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Betreff: [gnso-osc-ops] GNSO Ops Procedures Section 4-Voting: Next Steps
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Team:

 

As discussed in our last teleconference, the last call for comments with
regards to Section 4-Voting (re: abstentions) was this past Monday.  Ron
Andruff and Avri Doria confirmed their approval of the document as
originally drafted and Wolf-Ulrich offered a few edits for
consideration.  Given the edits offered by Wolf did not appear
substantive to me along with one of the proposed edits being primarily
w/ regards to formatting (splitting certain procedures into an
Appendix), I have chosen to request Ken Bour to begin moving the
original document forward through ICANN staff legal so that we can
submit to the OSC as soon as possible.  With regards to the formatting,
my interpretation from the Work Team is to keep the body of the
procedures intact under Sub-Section 4.5 vs. splitting off into an
Appendix.

 

Staff support, at my request, has also drafted a tentative resolution
(see below) that we can present to the OSC and, ultimately, to the
Council.  The 21-day comment period is a requirement of the Bylaws [see
Section 3(4)].  

 

I have authorized Ken Bour to submit the latest version of Section 4,
together with the sample resolution and Bylaws amendments, to Dan
Halloran (ICANN Legal) for his review.  We are asking Dan for his
opinion within one week from today or 11 February.  Immediately
thereafter, assuming there are no serious problems requiring team
action, I will send the document and resolution to the OSC requesting
their review by 26 February (2 weeks).  Although we will have missed the
12 February cutoff for official documents submitted before an ICANN
meeting, hopefully the OSC can indicate its support to the Council and
the document can be put out for public comment shortly after Nairobi.  

 

Thank you for all your hard work and of course to Ken Bour for all his
efforts in support of our Work Team on this issue.  I plan to share this
information and update with Chuck Gomes, Chair of the OSC unless there
are any objections.

 

Ray Fassett

Chair

GCOT

 

SAMPLE RESOLUTION:

 

WHEREAS the GNSO Council Operations Work Team (GCOT) has developed a set
of abstention provisions that it recommends be incorporated into the
GNSO Operations Procedures as Sub-Section 4.5 (part of 4.0-Voting); and

 

WHEREAS the GCOT has also identified other voting procedures within
Section 4.0 that it recommends be amended to be consistent with its
proposed abstentions provisions; and 

 

WHEREAS the Operations Steering Committee (OSC) has reviewed all of
these revisions and recommends them for adoption by the GNSO Council. 

 

RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council accepts Version 1.2 of the GNSO
Operating Procedures, including the recommended revisions to Section 4
and its new Sub-Section 4.5. 

 

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council directs Staff to post this
document for twenty-one (21) days in the ICANN Public Comment Forum and
reserves the right to modify these procedures upon conclusion of that
public comment period.