[gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Fwd: [council] Notification of voting outside a Council meeting: Council reply comment Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group

Thu Dec 18 23:38:11 UTC 2014

Thanks Amr.   This new provision looks quite useful in these circumstances.  Nice to know.

I'll be out of the office all next week but am looking at the correspondence between you and Greg.

Ron and Julie, could the two of you recap the projects Ron presented to Council as possibilities for SCI work during the meeting in LA?  If possible I would appreciate receiving a copy of Ron's slides.

Finally, Julie, does it make sense for us to schedule the first SCI call to review a draft letter to Council on January 13 or does it need to be January 6?

Thank you,
Anne

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From: owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org [mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org] On Behalf Of Amr Elsadr
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Subject: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Fwd: [council] Notification of voting outside a Council meeting: Council reply comment Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group

Hi,

Just thought that it'd be interesting for folks here to know that one of our recent projects is being put to use. :)

Thanks.

Amr

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From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org<mailto:Glen at icann.org>>
Subject: [council] Notification of voting outside a Council meeting: Council reply comment Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group
Date: December 17, 2014 at 9:28:01 PM GMT+1
To: Council GNSO <council at gnso.icann.org<mailto:council at gnso.icann.org>>

Dear Councillors

The Council approved at the meeting on 11 December 2014, Voting Outside a Meeting, as described in Section 4.10  in the revised GNSO Operating Procedures<http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-13nov14-en.pdf> for the Council's reply comment on the Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group.

The proposed timeline for this vote is:

1.      31 December 2014 23:59 UTC Final Council reply comment on the Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group submitted to the Council mailing list.
Tony Holmes to hold the pen on refining the comment<http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/council-comment-nomcom-recommendations-02dec14-en.pdf> up to 31 December 2014.

2.      Voting by electronic ballot:
Voting Opens Saturday, 3 January 2015

Voting Closes on Tuesday 6 January 2015 at 23:59 UTC.
If you foresee any connectivity issues during this period, please let me know so that alternate arrangements can be made.

3.      9 January 2015 Comments submitted to the public comment forum<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en>
4.      All Council members, except the non-voting Nominating Committee Appointee are eligible to vote.

4. 10. 2<http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-13nov14-en.pdf> Determination; Notice. Voting outside a meeting may only occur when all of the following conditions are met:
a.      The GNSO Chair determines, after discussion with Council members, that the issue will have been adequately discussed and sufficient time given to each Stakeholder Group and Constituency to consider the issue by the time the vote is called;
      b.   The GNSO Chair determines, after discussion with Council members, that the Council's regular meeting schedule would make it difficult to resolve the issue without scheduling an extra meeting and this would be impractical in light of the circumstances at that time;
     c.     No Councilor objects to the vote being taken outside a regularly scheduled Council meeting; and
    d.     The GNSO Chair provides at least seven (7) calendar days' advance notice of the vote, along with notice of the beginning and ending day and hour of the voting period (in UTC), which period shall not be less than four (4) calendar days.

4. 10.3.1<http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-13nov14-en.pdf> Guidelines for Voting Outside a Meeting
As with votes taken during a regularly scheduled GNSO Council meeting, all votes taken outside a meeting will:
a. Be open (i.e., not by secret ballot);
b. Allow for the inclusion of voting statements in accordance with Section 4.3.2 of these Operating Procedures; and
c. Have their outcomes published and recorded, with accompanying voter statements, if any, as minutes for purposes of formal record keeping. These items
are to be prepared and approved in accordance with Section 3.5 of these Operating Procedures, except that the relevant time period shall commence with the ending of the voting period.
4.10.3.2 Voting outside a meeting should normally be by electronic means. Methods used to transmit and record votes taken outside of meetings shall be authenticated and verifiable using the same criteria and applying the same standards as those used for absentee ballots under Section 4.4.3 of these Operating Procedures.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen

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

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