<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Hello everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to Julie’s notes it may be useful to bear in mind,for workload purposes, the amount of work and current focus on the IANA stewardship transition and accountability (e.g. many GNSO Councilors and community members are involved in one or both of the cross community working groups and the upcoming deadline of end-January for the names community’s proposal to be submitted to the IANA Coordination Group) as well as the fact that we are currently awaiting Westlake Governance’s first report on the GNSO review (expected in January 2015). The upcoming Singapore meeting is also going to largely focus on the transition and accountability discussions, with consequently fewer session slots available for individual WG or committee meetings. The SCI may therefore want to consider these factors in its evaluation of whether, when and what might be the most helpful to furthering the GNSO’s work for 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Mary</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Mary Wong</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Senior Policy Director</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Telephone: +1 603 574 4892</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Email: mary.wong@icann.org</font></font></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><br></div><br></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, 19 December 2014 08:09<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "Aikman-Scalese, Anne" <<a href="mailto:AAikman@lrrlaw.com">AAikman@lrrlaw.com</a>>, 'Amr Elsadr' <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org">aelsadr@egyptig.org</a>>, "<<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Fwd: [council] Notification of voting outside a Council meeting: Council reply comment Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi Anne,</div><div><br></div><div>I've attached Ron's slides from LA. Please also see the wiki on the Work Completed/In Progress at: <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=49350790">https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=49350790</a>. Staff will update it to reflect the items recently approved by the Council.</div><div><br></div><div>If the SCI wants to give the Council time to consider a letter at their meeting on the 15th as a courtesy you might want to have it to the Council by January 5th, which is the deadline for motions and documents. However, this may not be possible since it wouldn't allow time for SCI members to discuss a letter during a call, and members also are likely to be out during the next two weeks for holidays so they may not be able to make much progress on the list. In addition, the ICANN offices are closed beginning at Noon on 24 December through Friday, 2 January 2015. They will reopen on 5 January. We can certainly schedule a meeting at the usual time on the 6th to kick things off. Let us know if you would like us to schedule a meeting on the 6th. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Julie</div><div><br></div><div>Julie Hedlund, Director, SSAC Support</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <Aikman-Scalese>, Anne <<a href="mailto:AAikman@lrrlaw.com">AAikman@lrrlaw.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:38 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> 'Amr Elsadr' <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org">aelsadr@egyptig.org</a>>, "<<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> RE: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Fwd: [council] Notification of voting outside a Council meeting: Council reply comment Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks Amr. This new provision looks quite useful in these circumstances. Nice to know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’ll be out of the office all next week but am looking at the correspondence between you and Greg.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Amr Elsadr<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Fwd: [council] Notification of voting outside a Council meeting: Council reply comment Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Just thought that it’d be interesting for folks here to know that one of our recent projects is being put to use. :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Amr<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: </span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: [council] Notification of voting outside a Council meeting: Council reply comment Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 17, 2014 at 9:28:01 PM GMT+1</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: </span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Council GNSO <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dear Councillors</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Council approved at the meeting on 11 December 2014, Voting Outside a Meeting, as described in Section 4.10 in the revised<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-13nov14-en.pdf"><span style="color:purple">GNSO
Operating Procedures</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Council’s reply comment on the Nominating Committee Recommendations from the Board Working Group.<br><br>
The proposed timeline for this vote is:</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">31 December 2014 23:59 UTC Final
Council reply comment</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on the Nominating Committee Recommendations from
the Board Working Group submitted to the Council mailing list.<br><b>Tony Holmes</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to hold the pen on refining the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/council-comment-nomcom-recommendations-02dec14-en.pdf"><span style="color:purple">comment</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>up
to 31 December 2014.</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Voting by electronic ballot<span style="color:#1F497D">:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><br></span><b>Voting Opens Saturday, 3 January 2015</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><b>Voting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D">C</span>loses on Tuesday 6 January 2015 at 23:59 UTC</b>.<br>
If you foresee any connectivity issues during this period, please let me know so that alternate arrangements can be made.</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">9 January 2015 Comments submitted
to the public comment<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en"><span style="color:windowtext">forum</span></a></span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-left:.5in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">4.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All
Council members, except the non-voting Nominating Committee Appointee are eligible to vote.</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-13nov14-en.pdf"><span style="color:purple">4. 10. 2</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Determination;
Notice. Voting outside a meeting may only occur when all of the following conditions are met:</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="margin-left:.5in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">a.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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;</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 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;</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> c. No Councilor objects to the vote being taken outside a regularly scheduled Council meeting; and</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 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.</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-13nov14-en.pdf"><span style="color:purple">4. 10.3.1</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Guidelines
for Voting Outside a Meeting</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As with votes taken during a regularly scheduled GNSO Council meeting, all votes taken outside a meeting will:</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">a. Be open (i.e., not by secret ballot);</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">b. Allow for the inclusion of voting statements in accordance with Section 4.3.2 of these Operating Procedures; and</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">c. Have their outcomes published and recorded, with accompanying voter statements, if any, as minutes for purposes of formal record keeping. These items</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.<br><br>
Please let me know if you have any questions.</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thank you.</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kind regards,</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Glen</span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Glen de Saint Géry<br>
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