Dear ALAC members, Based upon the email sent out by Cheryl this morning, you will shortly receive the voting credentials for the two ALAC votes that started at 1200 UTC today. Unlike the last vote, there are two separate links for the votes. You will therefore receive two different emails that point you to two different votes. The questions to be put will be: 1. Do you believe that the Overview Report on the ALAC Review accurately reflects the various opinions held within At-Large on the ALAC Review Final Report? 2. Do you believe that the Statement on GNSO Restructuring should be ratified by the ALAC? (the document can be reviewed here: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?alac_response_to_gnso_restructuring _questions_al_alac_st_0908_1) Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org On 22/09/2008 11:30, "Cheryl Langdon-Orr" <cheryl@hovtek.com.au> wrote:
Dear Committee Members and Staff:
As you know, a vote was arranged (ending tomorrow) that covered two subjects: 1. Do you believe that the Overview Report on the ALAC Review accurately reflects the various opinions held within At-Large on the ALAC Review Final Report? 2. Do you believe that the Statement on GNSO Restructuring ( https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?alac_response_to_gnso_restructuring _questions_al_alac_st_0908_1 ) should be ratified by the ALAC?
The second questions was premature - you'll remember that there was a few follow up emails relating to this.
As a result, I believe that the result of the vote as a whole is in doubt... So as provided in Rule 20.3 of our Rules of Procedure. Since a roll-call as provided in that Rule is not possible outside of a meeting, and the result of the vote is needed as the matter in question is to be discussed by the Board of Directors at its 30th September meeting, as provided in Rule 20.2, electronic voting shall be used... and therefore that as provided in Rule 26.3, in order to finalise the decision of the ALAC on this matter in time for the Board meeting,
I therefore declare that the vote shall be from 1200 UTC today to 1800 UTC on 26th September 2008 and direct the Staff to administer the voting via the BigPulse tool. The voting shall be held on the same TWO Questions as were put in the original vote... But will be as two separated polls...
I also note that Denise Michel has been provided with the statement related to the second Question on the understanding that voting is underway on ratification of the statement. To facilitate our discussion on these additional question I will also request that an ad-hoc call be set up to allow greater community input into our WG's efforts, to that end I would like Staff to set up a Doodle to identify our best opportunity in the next week or so (perhaps before or after our next briefing call)
CLO