[gnso-osc-ops] Actions/Summary: 24 March 2010 Meeting
Dear Work Team members, Below are the action items and a brief summary of the discussion at our 24 March meeting. 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, 07 April at 1700 UTC (10:00 PST, 13:00 EST, 19:00 CEST, 20:00 Jerusalem, 01:00 Taiwan 08 April). Thank you. Best regards, Julie Action Items: 1. Abstention Procedures: Ken Bour will provide language on vacancies. 2. SOI/DOI: Julie Hedlund will provide final version to Ray Fassett and the WT for Ray to deliver to the OSC (Philip Sheppard). DONE--See attached documents in .doc and .pdf 3. Section 2.1 Term Limits -- Special Circumstances: Ken Bour will provide revised draft language. 4. Remaining procedures changes: Ken Bour will provide draft text on Section 3.8 Absences, further revisions to sections in 4.0, and the new Board election procedures. Summary: 1. Abstention Procedures: The OSC discussed the Abstention procedures at its Nairobi meeting on 07 March. During the discussion Steve Metalitz how the procedures addressed councilor vacancies. Ken Bour noted that in the case of a vacancy the Stakeholder Group could appoint a Temporary Alternate. However, the OSC noted that it was not clear whether a vacancy would alter the denominator for the purpose of voting. The OSC asked the WT to further discuss this issue. The WT decided that the denominator should not change. Ken Bour agreed to draft language and circulate it to the WT to review. 2. SOI/DOI: In its 07 March meeting the WT completed discussion on additional changes to the SOI/DOI document and agreed to submit the revised version to the OSC for review. At the 24 March meeting it agreed to have Ray Fassett send the document to the OSC. 3. Term Limits -- Special Circumstances: The WT discussed draft language for a new section 2.1 in the GNSO Council Operating Procedures on special circumstances for exceptions to term limits. The WT agreed to the following changes: To make it more difficult to gain approval for an exception, the percentage for approval in Section 2.1.1 was raised from greater than 50% to greater than 60%. In Section 2.1.2 it was raised from greater than 50% to greater than 75%. 4. Work Plan Priorities: The WT discussed the fact that the OSC has directed the all of its WTs to complete their work by 01 June for approval at the ICANN Brussels meeting. Given this deadline, the WT agreed to prioritize the remaining items accordingly. Ken Bour agreed to provide draft text for the WT to review, including incorporating changes as necessary into Section 4.0, voting. --New Section 3.8 on Absences to include allowing Temporary Alternate for long-term illness --Recording the reasons for a vote in addition to just abstentions --Absentee voting --New generalized Board Seat Elections procedures Attachment:
GNSO OSC GCOT WT Draft SOI-DOI Policy 07 March 2010.doc Attachment:
GNSO OSC GCOT WT Draft SOI-DOI Policy 07 March 2010.pdf |