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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Dear NCUC members,</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">I'm resending the email below, as the Standing Committee on Improvements (SCI) would like to complete its work on this issue and send its recommendation on to the GNSO Council for their approval. Please let me know if you have comments or questions by 21 April. Thanks!</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Mary</font><br><br><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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Mary Wong </p>
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NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu </p>
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3/20/2013 11:47 PM </p>
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Input requested by GNSO Standing Committee on Improvements </p>
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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 </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">OR</font><br> </p>
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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> </p>
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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> </p>
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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> </p>
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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> </p>
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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> </p>
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Mary W S Wong<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Professor of Law<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Faculty Chair, Global IP Partnerships<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Chair, Graduate IP Programs<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Two White Street<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Concord, NH 03301<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">USA<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Email: mary.wong@law.unh.edu<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Phone: 1-603-513-5143<br style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lucida Grande">Webpage: <a href="http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
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