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

[Ken Stubbs <kstubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Stubbs wrote:
I agree with Ron here..

On 4/14/2010 12:36 PM, Ron Andruff wrote:
> Dear all,
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> This document seems reasonable to me.
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> Kind regards,
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> RA
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> Ronald N. Andruff
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> *From:* owner-gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Ken Bour
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 08, 2010 10:50 AM
> *To:* gnso-osc-ops@xxxxxxxxx
> *Cc:* Glen de Saint Géry
> *Subject:* [gnso-osc-ops] Draft Section 2.4 - Board Seat Elections
>
> 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