<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 May 2017, at 10:53 am, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Issue 2:</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">IV(G)(5)</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="">Appoint NCUC representatives to the ICANN Nominating Committee by majority vote, with at least four members voting.</span><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">ICANN Staff Comment: There are 8 EC members according to Section IV-B. Does 4 constitute a minimum quorum for ALL EC votes or only for these special appointments? If it is a general constraint, then it should be stipulated earlier in this section and, then, it does not need to be repeated in 5, 6, and 7.</font></blockquote><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="">Our discussion was: there are not however 8 EC members, there are 6 EC members. Considering that we have 6 EC members, should we have a quorum of 4? That aside, If we go with the quorum of 4, I think it should be only applicable to especial appointments as laid out in 4,5,6, 7.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""> Other than this, having a quorum of 4 for voting in every decision making makes decisions more difficult. It also contradicts with this clause "IV(C)(</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">9): Whenever EC votes are required by the charter but inaction by other members of the EC prevents tasks and duties required by the charter to be executed, the Chair is empowered to act to further the interests of the constituency. In the event of a tie vote on the EC, the Chair shall act as a tiebreaker." </font><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">So I suggest either to reduce the quorum to 3 and only applicable to the specific paragraphs mentioned above. ( or we could leave 4 as is)</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I think keep the rule as only applicable to the specific paragraphs as role IV(C)(9) could be very important in many cases. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David</div></body></html>