[gnso-osc-ops] Draft Section 2.4 - Board Seat Elections

["Ken Bour" <ken.bour@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

GCOT Members:

 

Attached is proposed draft for Section 2.4 ? Board Seat Elections.   

 

As you may recall, this past January the Council approved a transitional
procedure only for Board Seat #13.   The schedule for nominations,
interviews, voting, etc., and associated dates were placed in ANNEX 1;
Section 2.4 merely referred to that ANNEX with a footnote.   

 

The attached document generalizes the timeline for Board Seat Elections and,
once approved, will eliminate the need for the transitional procedures (e.g.
ANNEX 1).  

 

Glen de Saint Gery helped me assemble the set of required activities and
when they should occur (see Table 1) backing up from the date that a Board
Seat becomes vacant according to the Bylaws. 

 

You will note that we did not write out specific procedures for each House
in terms of HOW to conduct nominations, interviews, and voting ? only WHEN.
The transitional ANNEX, approved in January, permitted the Contracted
Parties House (CPH) to determine its own internal procedures and, during the
associated public comment forum, community members requested that the same
opportunity be provided to the NCPH when Board Seat #14 was up election.
In order to ensure that both Houses develop and follow their election
processes transparently, we drafted a requirement that their detailed
procedures be documented and submitted to the Council for inclusion in the
GOP as ANNEXES.   This approach would give the Council and the Board
visibility into these Board Seat election procedures and would also subject
them to a 21-day public comment per Bylaws, Article X, Section 3(4)
<http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm#X-3.4> .   

 

Glen advises me that the first opportunity to utilize this procedure will be
for Board Seat #14, which term expires in June 2011.   According to the
steps outlined in Table 1, the Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) would
back up 5 months and begin nominations for that Board Seat in February 2011.


 

Ken Bour

Attachment: GNSO Operating Proc-Section 2.4 Board Seat Elections (KBv2).doc
Description: MS-Word document