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class=660344113-07012009>Philip,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=660344113-07012009>Do you have specific concerns about motions on the
table for tomorrow's meeting? If so, it is not clear to me which ones you
are referring to.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=660344113-07012009>Chuck</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-council@gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Philip
Sheppard<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:32 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'Council GNSO'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [council] Council
procedures<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>To make all our
lives simpler and in particular to make constituency consultation practical,
could we desist from the recent practice of posting multiple contradictory
motions on the same topic before a meeting ?</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>It is less than helpful to
have motions that have not even been seconded placed on the wiki and then
discussed at a meeting. This is especially true when the same proposer
has posted other motions on the same topic ! </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>If a motion has
any merit, then it should have found at least one other poor soul on Council
to support it before it makes an agenda. To seek a seconder at the meeting
itself, detracts from our credibility as a decision making body. Too often a
motion seems to have been seconded at the last moment more on the grounds of
"I like so and so and thus I will be nice and support their motion",
rather than based on a rational view of the content of the motion itself as
discussed with constituents.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>Focus, efficiency,
progress, - let these be our resolutions for 2009.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=875412413-07012009>Philip</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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