Dear Colleagues, During the call today, we found a common way forward on the ST18 recommendation, based on joint inputs from Denmark and Keith Drazek. This is intended to clarify the actual text that will be presented as our proposal on the Draft Report. Thank you all of you for your contributions to this significant step forward. Best and happy thanksgiving to all our US friends, Mathieu De : Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org] Envoyé : jeudi 26 novembre 2015 17:03 À : ACCT-Staff; Thomas Rickert; Mathieu Weill; León Felipe Sánchez Ambía; Cheryl Langdon-Orr; Becky Burr; Jordan Carter Objet : ST18 breathrough text Here’s what we need in the 3rd report: Article XI, Section 2, Item 1 j. The advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee on public policy matters shall be duly taken into account, both in the formulation and adoption of policies. In the event that the ICANN Board determines to take an action that is not consistent with the Governmental Advisory Committee advice, it shall so inform the Committee and state the reasons why it decided not to follow that advice. Any GAC advice approved by a full GAC consensus, understood to mean the practice of adopting decisions by general agreement in the absence of any formal objection, may only be rejected by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the Board. With respect to such advice, the Governmental Advisory Committee and the ICANN Board will try, in good faith and in a timely and efficient manner, to find a mutually acceptable solution. The GAC has the autonomy to refine its Operating Procedures to specify how objections are raised and considered (for example, disallowing a single country to continue an objection on the same issue if no other countries will join in an objection). When transmitting consensus advice to the Board for which the GAC seeks to receive special consideration, the GAC has the obligation to confirm the lack of any formal objection.