Re: [gnso-osc] GNSO Council procedures - avoiding abstention - proxy vote - approval by April 15

[Ken Stubbs <kstubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Stubbs wrote:

Ray's comments reflect my understanding as well..


On 3/31/2011 10:45 AM, Ray Fassett wrote:
> To clarify from WG perspective, a respective SG/C charter would have 
> to be "brought inline" in order to take advantage of the new proxy 
> procedure being recommended.  But the autonomy to do so (update of the 
> charter) was to left to each SG/C to decide on their own if they 
> wanted to.  The proxy procedures were not intended for those SG/C's 
> that have chosen not to capture it, which is where I will agree with Ron.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ray
>
> *From:*owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx] *On 
> Behalf Of *Ron Andruff
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:33 AM
> *To:* 'Philip Sheppard'; gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* RE: [gnso-osc] GNSO Council procedures - avoiding 
> abstention - proxy vote - approval by April 15
> Philip,
>
> I am confused.  Can you clarify for me (others?) if the yellow 
> highlighted text is new suggested language?  If so, it is significant 
> language changes.
> Wolf-Ulrich and I were on the work team that developed the proxy 
> voting language (with Ken Bour from staff) and it was my understanding 
> (W-U please correct me if I am wrong) that all constituency charters 
> would, following GNSO approval of this new procedure, be brought 
> inline with the new proxy voting procedures.   If that has not 
> happened, then that is what needs to be done, in my view.  I do not 
> think that the OSC should try to wordsmith something to fit an 
> irregularity that needs to be codified in all constituency charters.
> Kind regards,
>
> RA
>
> Ronald N. Andruff
>
> RNA Partners, Inc.
>
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>
> *From:*owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx] *On 
> Behalf Of *Philip Sheppard
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2011 5:12 AM
> *To:* gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [gnso-osc] GNSO Council procedures - avoiding abstention - 
> proxy vote - approval by April 15
> *For approval April 15*
>
> As the OSC may be aware Council raised some concern with the current 
> rules on proxy voting.
> Proxy voting is allowed as one remedy to avoid an abstention.
>
> The source of the concern was that the Council rules assumed the 
> existence of procedures in Constituency charters that were not universal.
> I attach a proposed version that avoids this assumption while 
> retaining the essence of the proxy option.
> I have also taken the opportunity to simplify language in this section 
> to avoid ambiguity.
> Please may I have your approval to recommend this change to Council?
>
> Deadline is April 15.
>
> Philip Sheppard
>
> OSC Chair