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<p>Hi David,</p>
<p>on the one hand I understand your point of starting the clock to
put pressure on SG/Cs. I'd prefer to not allow such a policy
rather than taking the direct line to the DP, meaning GNSO council
(secretariat?).<br>
</p>
<p>Best regards</p>
<p>Wolf-Ulrich<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 26.09.2019 um 15:09 schrieb McAuley,
David via Gnso-bylaws-dt:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Heather.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I agree with your analysis – that is how I
have been interpreting these parts of Annex D.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And so I agree with this part of your
email:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The only point I would add is this. If the
individual submits the petition to something other than the
GNSO Council on the individual’s own initiative, then I agree
with the foregoing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If, however, the GNSO adopts a policy,
guideline, process – whatever – that requires or urges an
individual to submit a petition not directly to the GNSO but
rather through an SG or C then will the submission to the SG
or C at the GNSO’s direction/urging not start the clock? I
would think that it would. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David McAuley</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sr International Policy & Business
Development Manager</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Verisign Inc.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">703-948-4154</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Gnso-bylaws-dt
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heather Forrest<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org">gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org</a>; Ariel Liang
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ariel.liang@icann.org"><ariel.liang@icann.org></a>; Julie Hedlund
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Gnso-bylaws-dt] Fwd:
[Ntfy-gnso-bylaws-dt] **Reminder** Meeting invitation: GNSO
Drafting Team call / Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 21:00 UTC</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies, all - I found a seriously
nonsensical typo in my earlier message! Trying again with
the correction below. Sorry for slamming your inbox.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">H</p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reminder to all that we have our
extra call this week (in roughly 9 hours). </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 "<b>individual</b>" and "<b>Decisional
Participant</b>". 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
<b>Decisional Participant</b> receives the
petition. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Article 6, section 6.1 defines
"Decisional Participant": <span>(a) The Empowered
Community ("<strong><span>EC</span></strong>")
shall be a nonprofit association formed under
the laws of the State of California consisting
of the </span>ASO<span>, the </span>ccNSO<span> (as
defined in <u>Section 10.1</u>), the </span>GNSO<span> (as
defined in <u>Section 11.1</u>), the </span>ALAC<span> (as
defined in <u>Section 12.2(d)(i)</u>) and the </span>GAC<span> (each
a "<strong><span>Decisional Participant</span></strong>"
or "associate," and collectively, the "<strong><span>Decisional
Participants</span></strong>").</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Annex D, Section 3.1(b)
therefore can be read: "During the period
beginning on the date that the
<b>GNSO</b> received the Nominating Committee
Director Removal Petition...." Section 11.2 of
the Bylaws describes the
<b>GNSO</b> 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
<b>GNSO</b> 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. </p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have copied the relevant
Annex D section 3.1(a) and (b) below. For ease,
link to the full Bylaws here: <a
href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#annexD"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#annexD</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very best wishes, and thank you
for your continued hard work,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Heather</p>
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<h4>
<span>ARTICLE 3 PROCEDURE FOR EXERCISE OF EC'S
RIGHTS TO REMOVE DIRECTORS AND RECALL THE BOARD</span></h4>
<p><a
name="m_-4228815550966307847_m_-29819464443416"
moz-do-not-send="true"></a><strong><span>Section
3.1. NOMINATING COMMITTEE DIRECTOR REMOVAL
PROCESS</span></strong><span></span></p>
<p><span>(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 ("<strong><span>Nominating
Committee Director Removal Petition</span></strong>").
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 <u>Section
3.1</u> of <u>Annex D</u> is referred to
herein as the "<strong><span>Nominating
Committee Director Removal Process</span></strong>."</span></p>
<p><span>(b) During the period beginning on the date
that the Decisional Participant received the
Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition
(such date of receipt, the "<strong><span>Nominating
Committee Director Removal Petition Date</span></strong>")
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 21</span><span>st</span><span> day
after the Nominating Committee Director Removal
Petition Date (as it relates to a particular
Director, the "<strong><span>Nominating
Committee Director Removal Petition Period</span></strong>"),
the Decisional Participant that has received a
Nominating Committee Director Removal Petition
("<strong><span>Nominating Committee Director
Removal</span></strong> <strong><span>Petitioned
Decisional Participant</span></strong>")
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 <u>Section 3.1(e)</u> of this <u>Annex
D</u>).</span></p>
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