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<div>I will add the next meeting to my calendar, but note that I will be attending the Rr/RySG GDD Summit and may not be able to attend.</div>
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<div>Thank you,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org">owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 2:18 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<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>[gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Actions: SCI Meeting 05 May 2016<br>
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<div>Dear SCI members,</div>
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<div>Please see below the actions captured from the SCI meeting held on 05 May. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments. The GNSO Secretariat also will send a notice for a call in two weeks on Thursday, 19 May at the usual time of 1800 UTC.</div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
<div>Julie</div>
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<div>Julie Hedlund, Policy Director</div>
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<div><b>Actions from 05 May SCI Meeting:</b></div>
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<li>Staff will produce a revision of Section 2.2 of the GNSO Operating Procedures (Officer Elections: Chair/Vice-Chair Elections) based on the final proposed language below. </li><li>SCI members will review the revision on the list and finalize it no later than at the 19 May meeting. </li><li>Staff will submit the final revision for a Consensus Call for two weeks (19 May to 02 June). </li><li>Once the Consensus Call is completed Amr Elsadr, as the SCI Liaison to the GNSO Council, will send an update to the Council on its list for possible discussion in Helsinki.</li></ol>
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<div>SCI members should review and discuss on the list whether to initiate a 40-day public comment period only on the revisions to the GNSO Operating Procedures relating to motions and amendments, but to wait to submit a
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">complete</span> set of revisions for GNSO Council approval once a separate 40-day public comment process on revisions relating to Chair/Vice Chair elections is completed. Staff notes that until the revised version of the
GNSO Operating Procedures is published, the GNSO Council will follow their current informal process relating to motions and amendments. The only change from the current process in the revision to the Operating Procedures is that discussion and voting on the
motion at the Council meeting cannot proceed without a second (current informal process allows for discussion, but not voting, on a motion without a second).</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">See Section 2.2(b), which provides that a candidate for GNSO Chair “does not need to be a member of a house, but must be a member of the GNSO Council.” With the ICANN Bylaws prescribing that a Council member’s term begins and
ends at the conclusion of an ICANN annual general meeting, Section 2.2(b) as phrased would seem to limit candidates for the Chair to only incumbent, continuing Council members.</div>
<div><font color="#0000ff">Final Proposed Language: "A candidate for GNSO Council Chair does not need to be a member of a house, but must be a [continuing or incoming] member of the GNSO Council." (Change to the GNSO Operating Procedures in brackets.)</font></div>
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<font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Final Proposed Language</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">: “In the case where one of Vice-Chair's terms on the Council ends at the
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