[council] Consent agenda issue :IGO-INGO Report to board

[Mike O'Connor]

hi all,

forgive me — is there a place i should routinely go look for the reports and documents that are included in the Consent Agenda?  i couldn’t figure out where to go download the report.

thanks,

mikey


On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Mary Wong <mary.wong at icann.org> wrote:

> Since Avri's suggestion does not alter the content or nature of the Board
> report, staff can prepare the table as suggested and append it to the
> report. We should be able to send the Council a copy of the proposed
> appendix later today so that the report being considered as part of the
> consent agenda for Thursday will include it.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Mary Wong
> Senior Policy Director
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)
> Telephone: +1 603 574 4892
> Email: mary.wong at icann.org
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:02 PM
> To: "council at gnso.icann.org" <council at gnso.icann.org>
> Subject: [council] Consent agenda issue :IGO-INGO Report to board
> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> First, apologies for only reading this report now in preparation for the
>> meeting and not when it first came out.
>> 
>> In reading the report I am troubled by the lack of any real mention of
>> the Minority Statements.  While it is mentioned that there were minority
>> statements, there is little to no mention of the subject of those
>> minority statements.
>> 
>> While it is true that the fully diligent Board member may go looking for
>> these minority statements based on the cross reference, for the most
>> part, I believe that fact will be missed by several at least.
>> 
>> I think that at least one sentence abstract on the subject manner of
>> each of these minority statements should be included in this report,
>> yest another table. I believe this should be a standard practice for all
>> Board reports given the important part minority statements play in ICANN
>> policy processes.
>> 
>> I have just begun to discuss this issue with my fellow council members
>> from the NCSG so at this point am just speaking on my own behalf of my
>> discomfort with this report, in its current state, being on the consent
>> agenda.  I did not wish to wait until they considered this however,
>> because of the tardiness with which I am making the request that this be
>> removed from the consent agenda until such time as the report is
>> modified or we have at least discussed the issue.
>> 
>> thanks and renewed apologies
>> 
>> avri
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> avri


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