[council] Absentee vote on Motion on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)

[Glen de Saint Géry]

Dear Councilors,

In keeping with the proxy vote procedures, all councilors who were absent from the meeting today, Thursday 8 January 2009 are invited to send the GNSO secretariat <gnso.secretariat at icann.org> a request for a ballot.

Councilors noted as absent: Adrian Kinderis, Cyril Chua, Mary Wong.

You will then be sent a ballot with an option to vote, YES, NO or ABSTAIN.
The current bylaws require a reason for abstaining on a policy recommendation so, if you abstain, please indicate your reason.

This process should be completed within 72 hours of the meeting which ended at 21:11 UTC on Thursday 8 January 2009.

Completed ballots are due NLT  21:11 UTC, Sunday, 11 January 2009.
(22:11 CET, 05:11 HongKong/Singapore, 08:11 Melbourne Monday 12 January 2009)

Motion on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) 
Made by: Tim Ruiz
Seconded: Chuck Gomes

Whereas:

ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative process related to amending the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA); 

The parties have arrived at a set of amendments that are generally thought to be worthy of inclusion in the RAA; 

Resolve:
The GNSO Council supports the attached RAA amendments (documented in http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pdf) 
and recommends to the Board that they be adopted.

Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org