[Gnso-bylaws-dt] Fwd: [Ntfy-gnso-bylaws-dt] **Reminder** Meeting invitation: GNSO Drafting Team call / Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 21:00 UTC
Wolf-Ulrich.Knoben
wolf-ulrich.knoben at t-online.de
Thu Sep 26 14:37:45 UTC 2019
Hi Heather,
I like your interpretation and am in full support. BTW this again shows
me that lawyers and techies are often following a similar logic in
procedural matters ;-).
To bring the interpretation of Annex D section 3.1 (a) to perfection we
should be clear about the origin of the "individual". Is here a
"GNSO-relationship" requested? Or could any individual with or without
any DP-related affiliation submit a petition to any of the DPs? The
latter may open the individual searching for the most likely
"removal-friendly" DP.
Looking forward to the discussion later today.
Wolf-Ulrich
Am 26.09.2019 um 14:07 schrieb Heather Forrest:
>
> Reminder to all that we have our extra call this week (in roughly 9
> hours).
>
> Our sole focus in this extra call is to reach a decision on how/to
> whom to submit a petition to remove a director. We need to interpret
> Bylaws Annex D in the GNSO context. I have read this again carefully
> and reviewed the recordings from our previous calls. Here is my
> interpretation as a strawman for our call:
>
> The language of Annex D section 3.1 ((a) "Subject to the procedures
> and requirements developed by the applicable Decisional Participant,
> an individual may submit a petition to a Decisional Participant...")
> tells me that the key terms are "*individual*" and "*Decisional
> Participant*". As I understand our previous calls, we all agree (in
> this contexts and elsewhere in our work) that "individual" means
> anyone. The term is not defined in the Bylaws.
>
> Then in Annex D section 3.1 (b), ("During the period beginning on the
> date that the Decisional Participant received the Nominating Committee
> Director Removal Petition..."), this tells me that the clock starts
> when the *Decisional Participant* receives the petition.
>
> Article 6, section 6.1 defines "Decisional Participant": (a) The
> Empowered Community ("*EC*") shall be a nonprofit association formed
> under the laws of the State of California consisting of the ASO, the
> ccNSO (as defined in _Section 10.1_), the GNSO (as defined in _Section
> 11.1_), the ALAC (as defined in _Section 12.2(d)(i)_) and the
> GAC (each a "*Decisional Participant*" or "associate," and
> collectively, the "*Decisional Participants*").
>
> Annex D, Section 3.1(b) therefore can be read: "During the period
> beginning on the date that the Decisional Participant received the
> Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition), this tells us that
> the clock starts when the *GNSO* receives the petition." Section 11.2
> of the Bylaws describes the GNSO as "consist[ing] of" "[a] Number of
> Constituencies"... "organized within the Stakeholder Groups". I do not
> understand 11.2 to allow us to interpret any single constituency or
> Stakeholder Group individually as the GNSO. Rather, the GNSO consists
> of all of those. Back to Annex D, Section 3.1(b), my view is that
> "when the *GNSO* receives the petition" means the GNSO as a whole, not
> any individual SG or C. For matters of the EC, the GNSO Council acts
> for the GNSO as a whole. Hence the clock starts ticking when the GNSO
> Council receives the petition.
>
> If the "individual" in Annex D section 3.1(a) submits the petition to
> something other than the GNSO Council, the clock has not yet started.
> That's not to say that an individual is prevented from submitting to
> an SG/C, but it seems to me that the SG/C is obliged to send on to the
> Council ASAP, without debate or discussion. Annex D doesn't give us
> any ground to enable an SG or C to delay or discuss, and further,
> "individual" means the petitioner, not an SG or C.
>
> I have copied the relevant Annex D section 3.1(a) and (b) below. For
> ease, link to the full Bylaws here:
> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#annexD
>
> Very best wishes, and thank you for your continued hard work,
>
> Heather
>
>
> ARTICLE 3 PROCEDURE FOR EXERCISE OF EC'S RIGHTS TO REMOVE
> DIRECTORS AND RECALL THE BOARD
>
> *Section 3.1. NOMINATING COMMITTEE DIRECTOR REMOVAL PROCESS*
>
> (a) Subject to the procedures and requirements developed by the
> applicable Decisional Participant, an individual may submit a petition
> to a Decisional Participant seeking to remove a Director holding Seats
> 1 through 8 and initiate the Nominating Committee Director Removal
> Process ("*Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition*"). Each
> Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition shall set forth the
> rationale upon which such individual seeks to remove such Director.
> The process set forth in this _Section 3.1_ of _Annex D_ is referred
> to herein as the "*Nominating Committee Director Removal Process*."
>
> (b) During the period beginning on the date that the Decisional
> Participant received the Nominating Committee Director Removal
> Petition (such date of receipt, the "*Nominating Committee Director
> Removal Petition Date*") and ending at 11:59 p.m. (as calculated by
> local time at the location of ICANN's principal office) on the date
> that is the 21st day after the Nominating Committee Director Removal
> Petition Date (as it relates to a particular Director, the
> "*Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition Period*"), the
> Decisional Participant that has received a Nominating Committee
> Director Removal Petition ("*Nominating Committee Director Removal*
> *Petitioned Decisional Participant*") shall either accept or reject
> such Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition; provided that a
> Nominating Committee Director Removal Petitioned Decisional
> Participant shall not accept a Nominating Committee Director Removal
> Petition if, during the same term, the Director who is the subject of
> such Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition had previously
> been subject to a Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition that
> led to a Nominating Committee Director Removal Community Forum (as
> discussed in _Section 3.1(e)_ of this _Annex D_).
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:47 PM Julie Bisland
> <julie.bisland at icann.org <mailto:julie.bisland at icann.org>> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
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> Roles and Obligations as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered
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