[gnso-osc-ops] Summary: 07 March 2010 Meeting
Dear Work Team members, Below is a brief summary of the discussion from the face-to-face meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday 07 March. Transcripts and MP3 recording will be sent as soon as they are available. Please let me know if you have any questions or changes. These are posted on our wiki at: https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?gnso_operations_team. Note also that our next meeting will be Wednesday, 24 March at 1700 UTC (09:00 PST, 12:00 EST, 18:00 CEST, 19:00 Jerusalem, 00:00 Taiwan). Thank you. Best regards, Julie Summary: 1. Abstention Procedures: The Work Team noted that it has completed its work on the Abstention procedures for recommendation into the Council Rules of Procedure. These have been submitted to the OSC with the recommendation for GNSO Council to review. 2. SOI/DOI: The Work Team completed discussion on additional changes to the SOI/DOI document and agreed to submit the revised version to the OSC for review. See attached document. 3. Term Limits: Special Circumstances: The Work Team discussed draft language for a new section 2.1 in the GNSO Council Operating Procedures to address Bylaws language, Article X, Section 3(2), which specifies that the GNSO Operating Procedures shall define the meaning of a “special circumstance” in relation to GNSO Council member term limits. After some discussion the Work Team agreed to make this topic a priority for discussion at the next meeting. 4. Tentative Work Schedule — Additional GNSO Operating Procedures Changes: --New generalized Board Seat Elections procedures --New Section 3.8 on Absences to include allowing Temporary Alternate for long-term illness Attachment:
GNSO OSC GCOT WT Draft SOI-DOI Policy 07 March 2010.pdf |