[council] RE: Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting 18 November 2010 at 11:00 UTC

[Olga Cavalli]

Hi,

I agree with Adrei, for those of us who have English as second language it
is easier if native speakers use neutral expressions that have the same
meaning but that we can all understand.
Many regards
Olga

2010/11/16 Andrei Kolesnikov <andrei at cctld.ru>

> Dear councilors, would you please use “easy language”, some of us may not
>  know what is “tortured verbiage”.  This is not related to this particular
> post, but for council texts and speeches in general.
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> Thank you for understanding,
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> --andrei
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> *From:* owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
> *On Behalf Of *William Drake
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:59 PM
> *To:* Caroline Greer
> *Cc:* Rosette, Kristina; GNSO Council
> *Subject:* Re: [council] RE: Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting 18 November
> 2010 at 11:00 UTC
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> Hi Caroline
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> On Nov 15, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Caroline Greer wrote:
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> We had two quality candidates and as a group, we felt unable to choose
> between them Kristina.
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> It is our understanding that nothing prevents us from forwarding two names.
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> It's true that the drafting team for the RT endorsement process didn't
> specify modalities for replacing people; it was pretty clear that addressing
> multiple circumstances would involve additional politics and tortured
> verbiage.  Nevertheless, one would think that the intention of the core
> principle, "Each stakeholder group may endorse one applicant to serve as a
> representative in a given review team" is pretty clear and applies to
> replacements as well.  As you know, neither the DT nor the Council ever
> discussed the possibility of SGs getting to put forward more names than
> their counterparts in any context, the whole point was uniformity and
> parity, so it's a bit hard to see the absence of a specific prohibition as a
> mandate.
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> Whatever….Hopefully someone will not cite this down the road as a precedent
> for endorsing multiple names at the front end etc.
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> Cheers,
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> Bill
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