<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m sending this email as an update to some of the ongoing work on the GNSO’s Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation (SCI). One of the ongoing projects the SCI is working on is formalising the procedures to second motions submitted to the GNSO Council, as well as the procedures to suggest friendly amendments. These two items (seconding of motions and suggesting amendments to them) are not codified in the GNSO operating procedures in any way, but should be soon as a result of the work that the SCI was asked to do by the GNSO Council.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was wondering if anybody has any thoughts on this. Feedback would be helpful, particularly from current and former GNSO Councillors. This is a discussion purely on Council procedure (no policy stuff here today), but getting the processes right is important when so many of members are using GNSO processes to further the goals of the non-commercial community within the gTLD policy context.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will notice that this email should have been forwarded to this list two-weeks ago. My fault for the very late delivery, and I ask for forgiveness. I had been offline for quite some time, and have been doing my best to catch up since getting back.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amr<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Consensus Call: Current Practice in Relation to Motions</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April 7, 2016 at 11:26:22 PM GMT+2<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" class="">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear SCI members,</div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As agreed on the SCI call on 07 April, the attached document, <b class=""><i class="">CONSENSUS CALL-GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revision Relating to Motions & Amendments 07 April 2016</i></b>, is being circulated for a formal Consensus Call. The document is the proposed revision to the GNSO Operating Procedures to include the new text on submitting, seconding, and amending motions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Background:</b></div></div></div></span><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">On 05 March 2015 the SCI submitted to the GNSO Council a Review Request (see attached) concerning the fact that there are currently no formal procedures on (i) whether, how and by whom a properly submitted motion is to be seconded, and (ii) treatment of proposed amendments to such motions as either “friendly” or “unfriendly”. The Review Request was one of two that the Council approved at its meeting on 16 April 2015. </font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">In the attached Review Request the GNSO Council asked that the SCI codify the existing customary practices of the GNSO Council and consider new processes to govern the seconding of motions and amendments to motions. </span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">09 October 2015 the SCI agreed on a documentation of the Current Practice Relating to Motions and sent a letter (attached) along with the original Review Request and the documentation to Jonathan Robinson, GNSO Council Chair. </font></li><li class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">In December 2015 the SCI established a Sub Team </font>A — Sara Bockey, Angie Graves, Wolf-Ulrich Knoben, and Lawrence Olawale-Roberts, and Rudi Vansnick — to review the current practice and the Sub Team submitted its recommendations to the SCI on 02 March 2016. The SCI discussed the recommendations in Marrakech on 05 March and asked staff to draft revisions to the GNSO Operating Procedures per the recommendations. </li><li class="">On 07 April the SCI discussed the draft revisions and asked staff to submit them to the SCI for a Consensus Call.</li></ul></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><i class=""><b class="">If there are no objections or changes received in two weeks by <u class="">Thursday 21 April</u>, the language will be presumed to be accepted by Full Consensus.</b></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Julie </div></div></span><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Julie Hedlund, Policy Director</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br class=""></font></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div>
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