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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Hi all - I thought I had sent the request below but cannot seem to locate it so I apologize if I did not. The GNSO's Standing Committee on GNSO Improvements (SCI) is requesting SG and constituency feedback on a proposal for dealing with whether, when and how a motion may be re-submitted for re-voting to the GNSO Council. The proposal follows, as does a brief explanation of why this is an issue.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Alternative #</font>1. Leave up to discretion of the Chair </div>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">OR</font><br> </div>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Alternative #</font>2. <font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Comply with ALL the following criteria, in this order</font><font face="Lucida Grande">:</font> </div>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">(</font>1) <font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Re-submitting Councilor must provide </font><font face="Lucida Grande">reasoning to justify the resubmission of a motion, no later than the usual deadline for submitting an original motion -- 8 days prior to the next GNSO Council meeting.</font> </div>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">(</font>2) <font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">T</font><font face="Lucida Grande">he text of the re-submitted motion must be published, no later than the usual deadline for submitting an original motion -- 8 days prior to the next GNSO Council meeting.</font> </div>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">(</font>3) <font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">T</font><font face="Lucida Grande">he re-submitted motion must have a seconder from each house as a prerequisite for placing the issue of whether the Council will even accept a re-submission on the consent agenda at the next GNSO Council meeting.</font> </div>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">(</font>4) <font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Any</font><font face="Lucida Grande"> Councilor can ask for the acceptance of re-submission to be taken off the consent agenda -- in which case the question whether or not the re-submission should even be accepted goes automatically to a Council vote on whether to accept the re-submission.NOTE: all this is just to decide if the act of re-submission itself is accepted -- the actual substance of the motion does not get discussed, or put to a vote, until such acceptance has taken place.CONTEXT:At a recent Council meeting, a motion was voted on and defeated because two Councilors abstained without realizing that an abstention under the GNSO Council rules is automatically deemed to be a No vote. The question then became whether the motion could be re-submitted and re-voted on, at which point it became clear that the GNSO Council rules and procedures do NOT currently have a process in place to deal with the question. The SCI was therefore asked to look at the issue and recommend such a process.Thanks and cheersMary</font> </div>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><br>Mary W S Wong
<BR>Professor of Law
<BR>Faculty Chair, Global IP Partnerships
<BR>Chair, Graduate IP Programs
<BR>UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
<BR>Two White Street
<BR>Concord, NH 03301
<BR>USA
<BR>Email: mary.wong@law.unh.edu
<BR>Phone: 1-603-513-5143
<BR>Webpage: <a href="http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
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