July 29, 2015
9:38 a.m.
Hi Chris, All, Another very good example of scenario, so I Cc Hillary. Le 29/07/2015 07:24, Chris Disspain a écrit : > However, we should also be very clear that the community powers we are > considering putting in place will also provide the power to block > policy arising from one of the SOs especially where the policy > concerned requires there to be a by-law change. The GNSO could > complete a PDP and recommend POLICY X and the Board decide to proceed > to change the by-laws BUT all of that would be trumped if the by-law > change were blocked by 'the community'. And whether the GNSO could > ‘block' the block depends entirely on the voting thresholds we put in > place. So, for example, with 20 votes and 75% required to vote to > block, the gNSO cannot, alone, block the block. As you rightly point out Chris, two cumulative conditions are needed for a gNSO policy proposal to get blocked with the new powers : 1) that the policy proposal requires a Bylaw change 2) (in the scenario described earlier) that 2/3 of the community reject the Bylaw change. In the scenario you described (4x5 votes), that means 14 votes against out of 20, while 5 votes come from the gNSO. Once again, it's useful (but subjective) to ask whether that's a useful safeguard or an undue interference with the policy making role of the gNSO. -- ***************************** Mathieu WEILL AFNIC - directeur général Tél: +33 1 39 30 83 06 mathieu.weill@afnic.fr Twitter : @mathieuweill *****************************