[council] Taking the Council's Temperature on Procedures for Consideration of 3rd Accountability Proposal

Stephanie Perrin stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca
Thu Dec 3 23:36:51 UTC 2015


+1!
Stephanie Perrin

On 2015-12-03 13:53, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez wrote:
> Dear Phil,
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> I support any motion that brings us closer to a reasonable, 40 day 
> comment period of the TRANSLATED draft.
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> Thank you very much
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> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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>> On Dec 3, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Phil Corwin <psc at vlaw-dc.com 
>> <mailto:psc at vlaw-dc.com>> wrote:
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>> Fellow Councilors:
>> This morning the BC held its regular members’ call, and we got into 
>> some discussion in regard to background information I had circulated 
>> prior to the call (below). However, there was insufficient 
>> participation to reach a BC consensus, and we shall continue the 
>> discussion on the BC email list.
>> It was decided on the call that I would reach out to other Councilors 
>> to get an initial impression of whether we are aiming to discuss and 
>> vote on a Resolution of approval or disapproval in two weeks, on our 
>> call of December 17^th , or whether we wish to bring that question to 
>> a vote on our first call of January 2016.
>> If we are targeting the 17^th then we have a great deal of work to 
>> do, including getting consensus feedback from those we represent and 
>> preparing a draft Resolution. If we are looking toward January then I 
>> would strongly suggest that we schedule that call for January 14^th , 
>> and not the 21^st which is only one day prior to the target delivery 
>> date to the Board.
>> What are your views on this most important matter?
>> Very best regards,
>> Philip
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>> BC members, please note that the second item in item #2, following 
>> Steve’s review of the Policy calendar, is:
>> ·*Discussion of final Accountability proposal #3– Comments close 
>> December 21- procedure for BC input into CSG, and then GNSO, for 
>> Chartering Organization decision*
>> The third Accountability proposal was published on Monday, November 
>> 30 for a comment period closing on December 21. The target date for 
>> delivering the Proposal to the Board for its consideration is January 
>> 22, 2016.
>> _While public comment is being solicited, we are now at the stage 
>> where the primary objective is to get the Chartering Organizations to 
>> indicate whether they approve or disapprove of the Proposal_– and, if 
>> they disapprove, what changes would be required for approval.
>> The GNSO is the relevant Chartering organization for the BC. The next 
>> meeting of the GNSO Council is scheduled for December 17, two weeks 
>> from today and four days before the close of the public comment 
>> period._Susan and I will be looking to BC members to provide a 
>> consensus view of the proposal that we can convey to the rest of the 
>> CSG, as well as the NCSG and the full Council._
>> The first meeting of the Council in 2016 will be held on either 
>> January 14 or 21. If Council does not approve a Resolution of 
>> approval or disapproval on December 17 then I think it is a sure bet 
>> that the next call will be on January 14, eight days prior to the 
>> scheduled Board delivery date.
>> _With all of that as background, the guidance your Councilors are 
>> looking for on today’s call is whether BC members believe they will 
>> be able to convey a consensus view on the proposal prior to the 
>> December 17 Council meeting, or whether we should be targeting 
>> January 14 for that Council decision._If you are planning to be on 
>> today’s call please be prepared to share your view on that question, 
>> and if you are not on the call please provide your view on the 
>> BC-Private list.
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