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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear All,</span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Please find the MP3 </span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>recording of the <span class=apple-style-span>Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting held on </span><b>Tuesday, 05 August 2014 at 19:00 UTC</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-sci-20140805-en.mp3">http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-sci-20140805-en.mp3</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>On page:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#oct"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#</span></a><u>aug</u><br>(transcripts and recording are found on the calendar page)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Attendees:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Ronald Andruff – Commercial and Business Users Constituency – Primary – Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Angie Graves - Commercial and Business Users Constituency – Alternate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Greg Shatan – IPC - Alternate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Anne Aikman Scalese – IPC - Primary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jennifer Standiford - <span style='background:white'>Registrar Stakeholder Group</span> - Primary<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Amr Elsadr – NCUC Alternate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Avri Doria – NCSG <span style='color:#1F497D'>–</span> Primary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Wolf-Ulrich Knoben – ISPCP - Primary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Apologies: <br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thomas Rickert: NOMCOM - Alternate<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>ICANN Staff:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Julie Hedlund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mary Wong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Nathalie Peregrine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list **<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Nathalie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Adobe Chat Transcript 05 August 2014<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Terri Agnew:Welcome to the SCI Working Group call on the 5th of August 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Ron A:Good afternoon all!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Greg Shatan:Good afternoon!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Ron A:Thanks for getting your comments back to the list in time for this call, Greg.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Greg Shatan:My pleasure....<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Amr Elsadr:Hi all. Dialling in now.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Ron A:Welcome Amr.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Amr Elsadr:On the call now too. :)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Julie Hedlund:Hello everyone!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Amr Elsadr:Hi Julie.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> jennifer standiford:hello<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Ron A:Please note all that you can scroll down on this doc yourself<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Anne:@Mary - are there other provisions in the Operating Procedures that relate to voting outside of meetings - e.g. for PDP approval?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Mary Wong:@Anne, the absentee voting provisions can apply for PDP recs and approval<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:i do not understand that last vote.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Anne:Do we need to refer to the fact that there are other sections dealing with votes outside a meeting?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:that i understood.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Amr Elsadr:Wouldn't "remote voting" also apply to votes conducted during regularly scheduled GNSO Council meetings/calls?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:i guess i had crossed understand of which was choice was a check, and with was a cross.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Anne:I am on a foreign laptop and cannot get the Adobe to mute. Therefore I had to drop off the call.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Greg Shatan:@Anne -- the absentee voting section is referred to in 4.5.3.2 and in 4.5.5.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:electronic is my preference<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> jennifer standiford:electronic is preferred<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Amr Elsadr:+1 to electronic.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Angie Graves:Electronic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Greg Shatan:Agree on electronic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Anne:What was the question form GNSO Council?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Anne:Have lost audio.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Ron A:@ Anne: the Note at the top of the draft was the GNSO Council request<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Ron A:Do you have a copy of Greg's draft?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Anne:Yes - came in over the phone again. Anne<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Amr Elsadr:@Anne: the question from the Council was the text between quotation marks: "whether and how the Council could vote outside of a meeting and under what circumstances."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Mary Wong:The 10-day Motion Waiver Deadline proposal plus this one will both go out together, in clean copy, to the full SCI for a formal Consensus Call.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Nathalie Peregrine:Thomas sends his apology for today's call<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:i think starting up new work during august is probably difficult<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Ron A:Agreed Avri. I'm thinking Sept.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Julie Hedlund:@Mary: That is correct. Yes, might be something coming from the Council.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:Like congress in the US, we should go on summer break<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Julie Hedlund:Charter says: The GNSO Standing Committee on Improvement Implementation (SCI) is responsible for reviewing and assessing the effective functioning of the GNSO Procedures and Working Group guidelines. Its tasks include making recommendations: On request, for those procedures and guidelines that have been identified as presenting immediate problems On a periodic timescale for all procedures and guidelines in order to identify possible issues and/or improvements (subject to a clear definition by the SCI on which procedures and guidelines should be reviewed)The SCI is also responsible for considering requests concerning issues related to the GNSO Council processes and procedures and to Working Group guidelines that have been identified either by the GNSO Council or a group chartered by the GNSO Council as needing discussion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Mary Wong:Thank you all!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Julie Hedlund:Thank you everyone! Enjoy the summer!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Amr Elsadr:Thanks all. Bye.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:thanks bye<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Avri Doria:\<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>