[CCWG-ACCT] Does the proposed change to the GAC Bylaw create a new "mandatory voting requirement" for the ICANN Board?

[Malcolm Hutty]

On 18/12/2015 15:15, Drazek, Keith wrote:
> Greg raises very important points. Neither a "mandatory vote" nor a
> "presumption of acceptance" was intended. The only change proposed was
> to raise the threshold, under current practice, from simple majority to
> 2/3 if a vote was ever required at the last stage of the Board's
> consideration of GAC Advice. 

Is a presumption of acceptance not implicit in a rule that says you need
2/3 to object?

I think this will change the relationship of the GAC to the Board,
creating an expectation of acceptance.

In any case, you offered it as a way of trying to win the GAC's support
for the Recommendation on ST18 as a whole. Has it achieved that?
Does the GAC now support this, as a package?

Malcolm.

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