[gnso-improvem-impl-sc] REMINDER Notification re: Consensus Call: Chair & Vice Chair Election Procedures

Mon Jun 20 20:52:47 UTC 2016

Dear SCI members,

During last week’s meeting SCI members agreed with the minor grammatical change suggested by Amr and that this change should be notified to the SCI list.  The change is included in the attached document, for clarity updated with today’s date, as follows:

Change the final sentence in #3 to "Should a House fail to designate an interim Vice-Chair, the Designated Interim Vice-Chair from the other House will serve as an Interim Vice-Chair alone until a new Chair is conclusively elected." Change “the House” to “a House” and strikeout “with the vacant Vice-Chair position”. 

If there are no objections received by TODAY COB Monday, 20 June, this change will be considered to be accepted.

Kind regards,

Julie

Julie Hedlund, Policy Director

From: <owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund at icann.org>
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 3:59 PM
To: "gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org" <gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org>
Subject: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Notification re: Consensus Call: Chair & Vice Chair Election Procedures

Dear SCI members,

During today’s meeting SCI members agreed with the minor grammatical change suggested by Amr and that this change should be notified to the SCI list.  The change is included in the attached document, for clarity updated with today’s date, as follows:

Change the final sentence in #3 to "Should a House fail to designate an interim Vice-Chair, the Designated Interim Vice-Chair from the other House will serve as an Interim Vice-Chair alone until a new Chair is conclusively elected." Change “the House” to “a House” and strikeout “with the vacant Vice-Chair position”. 

If there are no objections received by COB Monday, 20 June, this change will be considered to be accepted.

Kind regards,

Julie

Julie Hedlund, Policy Director

From: <owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund at icann.org>
Date: Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 1:20 PM
To: "gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org" <gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org>
Subject: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Consensus Call Revised: Chair & Vice Chair Election Procedures

Dear SCI members,

As there were no objections to Amr’s suggested text, it has been included in the attached documents.  In the redline version the previous text is shown as stricken and the new text is in brackets.  In the clean document the suggested text replaces the previous text.  I hope this is clear, but please let us know if you have any questions.  The documents are attached in Word and PDF.

Unless otherwise requested, the deadline will continue to be Thursday, 16 June for the close of the Consensus Call.  Note that we also have a meeting at our usual time on that Thursday at 1800 UTC.  If you have not received a calendar invite or notice, please alert the GNSO Secretariat at gnso-secs at icann.org.

Kind regards,

Julie

Julie Hedlund, Director, SSAC Support

From: <owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund at icann.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 11:44 AM
To: Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at egyptig.org>
Cc: "gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org" <gnso-improvem-impl-sc at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Consensus Call: Chair & Vice Chair Election Procedures

Many thanks Amr for this very helpful and constructive suggestion.

Kind regards,

Julie

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 7, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at egyptig.org> wrote:

Hi,

I know this in not exactly standard practice, but I would like to offer what I believe to be a friendly amendment (can’t think of a better term right now) to the language we are asking our SGs/Cs to consider.

Specifically, the last sentence in section 2.2.1 #3 reads:

Should the House with the vacant Vice-Chair position fail to designate an interim Vice-Chair, the Designated Interim Vice-Chair from the other House will serve as an Interim Vice-Chair alone until a new Chair is conclusively elected.

This sentence seems applicable to me in 2.2.1 #2, but not #3. If we’re dealing with scenario 3, then there are already no vice chairs available to serve on an interim basis from either House. I believe this sentence may better serve the purpose we intended if it were something more like this:

“Should one of the Houses fail to designate an interim Vice-Chair, the designated interim Vice-Chair from the other House will serve as an interim Vice-Chair alone until a new Chair is conclusively elected.”

I hope this makes sense to folks. If there is agreement on this, perhaps we can ask for an amended document to circulate to our groups?

Thanks, and apologies for not catching this sooner.

Amr

On Jun 2, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund at icann.org> wrote:

Dear SCI members,

As agreed on the SCI call on 02 June, the attached document, CONSENSUS CALL-GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revision Chair-Vice-Chair Elections 02 June 2016, is being circulated for a formal Consensus Call.  The document is the proposed revision to the GNSO Operating Procedures to include the new text relating to Chair and Vice Chair elections.  The text includes the following suggested changes from today’s SCI call:

1.       In Section 2.2 (2) delete the phrase "within the allotted time period" in the sentence “Should the House with the vacant Vice-Chair position fail to appoint an interim Vice-Chair within the allotted time period, the continuing Vice-Chair from the other House will serve as an Interim Vice-Chair alone until a new Chair is conclusively elected.”  Show the deletion in strikeout.

2.       In Section 2.2 (3) delete the phrase "within the allotted time period" in the sentence “Should the House with the vacant Vice-Chair position fail to designate an interim Vice-Chair within the allotted time period, the Designated Interim Vice-Chair from the other House will serve as an Interim Vice-Chair alone until a new Chair is conclusively elected.”  Show the deletion in strikeout.

3.       In Section 2.2 (4) insert the phrase “within the allotted time period” after “on an interim basis” in the sentence “If both Houses should fail to temporarily fill the role of Vice Chair on an interim basis, the non-voting NCA will be designated the Interim Chair to oversee the Chair election and conduct Council business until such time as a Chair is conclusively elected.”  Show the addition in brackets.

Background:

In its motion approved on 19 November 2015 the GNSO Council requested the SCI:
1. To review Sections 2.2(b), (f) and (g) of the GNSO Operating Procedures with respect to clarifying: (i) the eligibility of incoming Council members to run for the position of GNSO Chair; (ii) the start and end dates and the duration of the Chair and Vice-Chair terms in accordance with the ICANN Bylaws; and (iii) the timing of publication of the election results; and
2. To recommend a general time table for election of the GNSO Council Chair to be approved by the GNSO Council and added to the GNSO Operating Procedures.
In December 2015 the SCI created Subteam B to discuss and draft possible new procedures.  The Subteam members were: Anne Aikman-Scalese, Angie Graves, Wolf-Ulrich Knoben, and Sara Bockey.
The Subteam submitted its recommendations to the SCI to consider at its meeting during ICANN 55 in Marrakech, Morocco on 05 March 2016.
On 02 June the SCI discussed the draft revisions and asked staff to submit them to the SCI for a Consensus Call.
If there are no objections or changes received in two weeks by Thursday 16 June, the language will be presumed to be accepted by Full Consensus.

Best regards,

Julie 

Julie Hedlund, Policy Director

<CONSENSUS CALL-GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revision Chair-Vice-Chair Elections 02 June 2016.docx><CONSENSUS CALL-GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revision Chair-Vice-Chair Elections 02 June 2016.pdf>

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