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Hi,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28-Jan-15 09:57, Amr Elsadr wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:85BD18C5-DE58-466B-A3DA-785F30D10FAD@egyptig.org"
type="cite">Again…, for the record, I’m also fine picking up the
task of formalising procedures for friendly amendments as soon as
we can, and as soon as the GNSO council deems it
appropriate/practical. There is no mention of how friendly
amendments are used in the GNSO operating procedures, but they are
used quite frequently, and often become problematic.</blockquote>
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This one is thorny. Friendly amendments are not defined anywhere.
In fact, Roberts Rules, specifically ricules the possiblity of such
things being valid. The ordinary claim is that once a motion is
made it no longer belongs to the person who made the motion but
belongs to the group, in this case the council, itself.<br>
<br>
I tried to open this issue for discussion when I first became chair
of the GNSO, but was quickly convinced that as new chair who had to
tread carefully, this was not a subject the GNSO or its council was
ready to deal with. It was a trusted practice, and I learned to
leave it alone.<br>
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Perhaps now, though, almost a decade later, the GNSO may be ready to
deal with this issue. I think it is a very intersting issue for the
SCI to work on.<br>
<br>
One change that has been made in the internal process, since my
first time in the council, is that now not only the motioner has to
approve the friendly, but the seconder is asked to as well. Not
sure when this change was made or how it came into practice, but it
seems to be the practice now.<br>
<br>
avri<br>
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