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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">I like Alternative 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org [mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mary.Wong@law.unh.edu<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 07, 2013 5:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NCUC-DISCUSS] Input requested by GNSO Standing Committee on Improvements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">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!</span>
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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: <a href="mailto:mary.wong@law.unh.edu">mary.wong@law.unh.edu</a> <br>
Phone: 1-603-513-5143 <br>
Webpage: <a href="http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php">http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">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.</span>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">Alternative #</span>1. Leave up to discretion of the Chair
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">Alternative #</span>2. <span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">Comply with ALL the following criteria, in this order:</span>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">(</span>1) <span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">Re-submitting Councilor must provide reasoning to justify the resubmission of a motion, no later than
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">(</span>2) <span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">The text of the re-submitted motion must be published, no later than the usual deadline for submitting
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">(</span>3) <span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">The 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.</span>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">(</span>4) <span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">Any 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</span>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Mary W S Wong<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Professor of Law<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Faculty Chair, Global IP Partnerships<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Chair, Graduate IP Programs<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Two White Street<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Concord, NH 03301<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>USA<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Email: <a href="mailto:mary.wong@law.unh.edu">mary.wong@law.unh.edu</a><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Phone: 1-603-513-5143<span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span>Webpage: <a href="http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php">http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php</a><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
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