[gnso-osc] GNSO Council procedures - proxy vote - approval by April 15 - v5

["Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@xxxxxx>]

Further to Steve's comment, Chuck's support, and some concern expressed by
Stephan as to the confusing nature of this fine distinction between proxy for
abstention and proxy for absence, I propose the revision attached.

Pink highlight shows changes from v3 and v4.

There are two key changes:
a) we allow the Proxy giver to instruct (absent any rationale from Staff why
this is a bad idea)
b) we make the giving of a proxy simple. 

In doing b) there is a tad of illogic in that a proxy giver abstaining may in
theory instruct a proxy holder to abstain. 
This defeats the purpose and the Proxy Giver would be stupid to so instruct.
On balance a simple rule designed for Councillors who are assumed not be stupid
seems preferable to a complex rule that assumes Councillors are stupid.

Comments ?

Philip

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