[council] Proposed Motion concerning Council communication to ICANN BoD regarding lack of Whois consensus
Ross Rader
ross at tucows.com
Wed Sep 12 11:11:27 UTC 2007
Philip Sheppard wrote:
>
> While we are on the subject of procedures for Council...
>
> a. It is bizarre to lay down now motions that reference a hypothetical outcome of a future
> GNSO vote.
> Please Avri check with legal services on the good sense and by-law compatibility of this.
Save yourself the trouble Avri, the bylaw cover neither the "bizarre"
nor "good sense". C'mon Philip, surely you can do better.
The *only* reason this motion has been tabled at this time is to provide
my fellow councillors with the opportunity to review a motion before I
table it at a council meeting. This is the process that we all agreed to
and I'm simply following it.
>
> b. A motion that proposes an outcome to a PDP that is 100% unconnected with the PDP terms of
> reference and any discussion (to wit Ross's motion) must be out of order.
> At best it relates by title only to the same issue.
> Avri, please check this out with legal services also.
>
The motion does not propose any outcome to the PDP. It is a proposal
regarding how we will react to a possible outcome and make a
communication to the board describing that possible outcome.
> A Councillor may propose any nonsense they want at any time: Council is not obliged to
> indulge it.
> As a long standing member, I would prefer to see us act with common sense, propriety and
> rationality.
Why start now Philip? Again with your rhetoric. If you are looking to
act with common sense, you might want to start by rethinking these sorts
of statements. Objecting to a motion on emotional terms? Really.
-ross
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