[council] initial memo on propsed proxy voting change

Happy New Year fellow Council members; The staff recommendations in the note on proxy voting seem sound and consistent with former Names Council practice when we engaged in proxy voting - whether we were supposed to or not. On the item c - participation, I believe current practice whereby we have often extensively talked over an issue before a vote, covers this point. All we need now is to set out the recommendations into a short set of rules and add in a few practicalities such as open proxy and a proxy with direction to vote in a certain way, and we are done. I hope we can move forward on this with due haste. Philip