RE: [gnso-restruc-dt] Q10. Section 3.6: Restriction on who can be elected to a board seat. (13 or 14)

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Avri and Margie for getting this thread started.  I will try to
move forward a little further. To make it easier to see the context of
my comments, I inserted them below.

Chuck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnso-restruc-dt@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-gnso-restruc-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margie Milam
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:01 PM
> To: Gnso-restruc-dt@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gnso-restruc-dt] Q10. Section 3.6: Restriction 
> on who can be elected to a board seat. (13 or 14)
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> To assist your discussions on these questions, I thought it 
> would be useful to provide the current proposed language on 
> the table related to these questions.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Margie Milam
> Senior Policy Counselor
> ICANN
> ______________________________________________________________
> _________________________________________________
> 
> Currently Proposed Revisions:
> 
> 6. Each of the two GNSO Houses, as described in Section 3(8) 
> of this Article (link TBD), shall make a selection to fill 
> one of two ICANN Board seats, as outlined below, by written 
> ballot or by action at a meeting; any such selection must 
> have affirmative votes comprising 60% of all the respective 
> voting house members: 
>  
> a.  the Contracted Party & Suppliers House shall select Seat 
> 13; and b.  the Users & Providers House shall select Seat 14. 
> 
> Both seats shall not be held by individuals who are employed 
> by, an agent of, or receive any compensation from an 
> ICANN-accredited registry or registrar

Chuck: I support deletion of this requirement as I stated in our call
yesterday.  Jon did a good job of explaining how this language was a
legacy from when we were considering a different approach for electing
Board reps.  I believe that each house should be able to elect whoever
they believe is most qualified as long as Bylaws Board qualifications
are met.  In my opinion, and I would be very surprised if it wasn't the
opinion of most, the two present GNSO-elected Directors are outstanding,
but they would have been ineligble if this requirement was in place. 

> nor shall both seats 
> be held by individuals who are the elected or appointed 
> representatives to one of the four GNSO Stakeholder Groups or 
> any Constituency.

Chuck: As I shared in our call yesterday, if our intent is to preclude
anyone from serving on the GNSO Council and the ICANN Board at the same
time, I support that intent but think we should say that more clearly;
for example, "An individual may not serve simultaneously as a GNSO
Councilor and an ICANN Board member."  The way the requirement is
presently worded, it would seem to prevent a current GNSO Councilor from
being elected to a Board seat; under my suggested wording, it would be
okay if that happened as long as the individual resigned his/her
position on the GNSO Council. Note that this is exactly what happened
when we elected Bruce to the Board seat.

>   Notification of the Board seat selections 
> shall be given by the GNSO Chair in writing to the ICANN 
> Secretary, consistent with Article VI, Sections 8(4) and 12(1).
> ______________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnso-restruc-dt@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-gnso-restruc-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:42 PM
> To: Gnso-restruc-dt@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gnso-restruc-dt] Q10. Section 3.6: Restriction on 
> who can be elected to a board seat. (13 or 14)
> 
> 
> Q10. Section 3.6: Restriction on who can be elected to a board seat.
> 
> It was recommended that the following paragraph be deleted:
> 
> Both seats shall not be held by individuals who are employed 
> by, an agent of, or receive any compensation from an 
> ICANN-accredited registry or registrar nor shall both seats 
> be held by individuals who are the elected or appointed 
> representatives to one of the four GNSO Stakeholder Groups or 
> any Constituency
> 
> It was noted that this should probably be changed into 2 sentence.  
> 
> - The first concerning employment in ICANN accredited 
> registrars of registries.  
> - The second concerning being simultaneously elected into 
> seat 13 or 14 and being a Stakeholder representative in the 
> GNSO  council.
> 
> 
> What is the status of this deletion?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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