<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looks good to me too. I will be late to join today’s call, or may possibly miss it altogether (depending on traffic). I’ll try to make it as soon as I can.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amr</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 26, 2016, at 10:31 PM, Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta name="Title" content="" class=""><meta name="Keywords" content="" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)" class=""><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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--></style><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Dear SCI members,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Just a reminder to review the proposed language. We have attached it as version 2 with the changes suggested by staff. The suggested changes in </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">sections 2.2.1(1) and 2.2.1(2) </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">are included in brackets and the words “vacant House” are shown as stricken.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Our next meeting is next week Thursday, 02 June, at the usual time of 1800 UTC.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Kind regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Julie<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Julie Hedlund, Policy Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">From: </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""><<a href="mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date: </b>Monday, May 23, 2016 at 1:36 PM<br class=""><b class="">To: </b>Lawrence Olawale-Roberts <<a href="mailto:icann@microboss.org" class="">icann@microboss.org</a>>, Amr Elsadr <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org" class="">aelsadr@egyptig.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject: </b>Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW(2): Chair/Vice-Chair Procedures<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Hi Lawrence,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Thank you very much for your support of the revised language.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Kind regards,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Julie</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">From: </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Lawrence Olawale-Roberts <<a href="mailto:icann@microboss.org" class="">icann@microboss.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date: </b>Monday, May 23, 2016 at 1:28 PM<br class=""><b class="">To: </b>Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>>, Amr Elsadr <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org" class="">aelsadr@egyptig.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject: </b>RE: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW(2): Chair/Vice-Chair Procedures</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class="">I am in support of the suggested edit by Julie and Mary as it helps to provide further clarity for sections 2.2.1(1) and 2.2.1(2) on the issue of the house with the vacant Vice-Chair position. <br class=""><br class="">I would love that we adopt it.<br class=""><br class="">Warm regards,<br class=""><br class="">Lawrence </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""><a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">Julie Hedlund</a></span><br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Sent: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">5/23/2016 3:08 PM</span><br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">To: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""><a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org" class="">Amr Elsadr</a></span><br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Cc: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""><a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a></span><br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Subject: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW(2): Chair/Vice-Chair Procedures</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi Amr,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thank you very much for your helpful comments. We are glad that you agree the language is an improvement.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Kind regards,<br class=""><br class="">Julie<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">From: Amr Elsadr <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org" class="">aelsadr@egyptig.org</a>><br class="">Date: Monday, May 23, 2016 at 8:48 AM<br class="">To: Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br class="">Cc: "<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW(2): Chair/Vice-Chair Procedures<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">This sounds better to me. I had also considered suggesting this change when I introduced the bracketed text, but didn’t want to confuse anyone, and figured using consistent language at the time was clearer (since “the vacant House” was already in the text at the time).<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Thanks.<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Amr<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>On May 20, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>> wrote:<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Dear SCI members,<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Mary and I have a minor suggested change for your consideration: For the sentences in sections 2.2.1(1) and 2.2.1(2) instead of “the vacant House” we suggest that it might be more clear to say, “the House with the vacant Vice-Chair position”.<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Kind regards,<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Julie<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Julie Hedlund, Policy Director<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">From: <<a href="mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br class="">Date: Friday, May 20, 2016 at 9:42 AM<br class="">To: "<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class="">Subject: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW(2): Chair/Vice-Chair Procedures<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Dear SCI members,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Please see the attached second revision of the Chair/Vice Chair Procedures for your review based on the discussion during yesterday’s SCI call. Per the actions items from the call the second revision contains the following changes:<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>1. Revised the following sentence in sections 2.2.1(1) and 2.2.1(2) to include the bracketed text: “The deadline for the vacant House to designate its Interim Vice Chair is [no later than 23h59 Coordinate Universal Time (UTC)] 14 calendar days following the Council meeting at which no Chair was conclusively elected.”<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>2. Change the title of the table to “Chair Election Timeline” and include the suggested changes from Wolf-Ulrich in the table as follows: The date for the NomCom selectees announcement should also apply for the announcement of new councilors sent by the SGs/Cs. Changed the title of the third column to “time available”, and changed the time available for candidates to submit statements to 12 days.<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Please send any comments or edits to the list and we will hope to finalize these procedures by the next SCI call on 02 June.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Kind regards,<br class=""><br class="">Julie<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Julie Hedlund, Policy Director<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">From: <<a href="mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br class="">Date: Friday, May 20, 2016 at 9:12 AM<br class="">To: WUKnoben <<a href="mailto:wolf-ulrich.knoben@t-online.de" class="">wolf-ulrich.knoben@t-online.de</a>>, "<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW: Chair Vice-Chair Procedures<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Dear Wolf-Ulrich,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thank you very much for your helpful edits. I’ll include them in the revised version of the document that I will send out later today.<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Kind regards,<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Julie<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Julie Hedlund, Policy Director<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>From: <<a href="mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>> on behalf of WUKnoben <<a href="mailto:wolf-ulrich.knoben@t-online.de" class="">wolf-ulrich.knoben@t-online.de</a>><br class="">Reply-To: WUKnoben <<a href="mailto:wolf-ulrich.knoben@t-online.de" class="">wolf-ulrich.knoben@t-online.de</a>><br class="">Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 5:27 PM<br class="">To: Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW: Chair Vice-Chair Procedures<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">All,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">following the SCI call I’ve slightly revised the election table (see attached). I think the date for the NomCom selectees announcement should also apply for the announcement of new councillors sent by the SGs/Cs.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best regards<br class=""><br class="">Wolf-Ulrich<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">From: Julie Hedlund <br class=""><br class="">Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 6:47 PM<br class=""><br class="">To: <a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a> <br class=""><br class="">Subject: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] FOR REVIEW: Chair Vice-Chair Procedures<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Dear SCI members,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Per the action items below from our meeting on 05 May, Mary and I have drafted the attached revised procedures on Chair/Vice-Chair Elections that are proposed to be included in Section 2.2 of the GNSO Operating Procedures. Many thanks to Amr for his suggestion below concerning additional language, which we have included in brackets.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Please provide any comments on the list, and we can also discuss the proposed language during the SCI call on Thursday, 19 May, at our usual time of 1800 UTC.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Kind regards,<br class=""><br class="">Julie<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Julie Hedlund, Policy Director<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">From: <<a href="mailto:owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br class="">Date: Monday, May 9, 2016 at 10:59 AM<br class="">To: Amr Elsadr <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org" class="">aelsadr@egyptig.org</a>><br class="">Cc: "<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Actions: SCI Meeting 05 May 2016<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Hi Amr,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thank you for your helpful comments and the suggested language for Scenarios 2 and 3. When staff send around the revised Operating Procedures with the Section 2.2 new language, we’ll include your suggestion in brackets.<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Kind regards,<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Julie<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>Julie Hedlund, Policy Director<span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span>From: Amr Elsadr <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@egyptig.org" class="">aelsadr@egyptig.org</a>><span style="font-family:MingLiU" class=""><br class=""></span>Date: Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 11:26 AM<br class="">To: Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br class="">Cc: "<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Actions: SCI Meeting 05 May 2016<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On May 5, 2016, at 11:18 PM, Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[SNIP]<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">[The entire original message is not included.]<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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