Dear Councillors, Ahead of the formal meeting minutes, the GNSO Council, at its meeting on Thursday, 9 July 2009 passed the resolution noted below. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards Glen By-Law Changes Motion proposed by Avri Doria and seconded by Chuck Gomes Whereas On 28 August 2008 the ICANN Board of Directors approved the BGC plan to restructuring of the GNSO; and http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-28aug08.htm On 27 March 2009 the ICANN Policy Staff introduced a draft of proposed by-law changes related to the restructuring of the GNSO; and http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-bylaws-changes-re-gnso-27mar09.pdf Subsequent to receiving the changes suggested by the ICANN Policy Staff, the GNSO Council decided to create a Committee of the Whole to work on a proposed set of changes to the By-laws which committee was open to council members as well as substitutes from the constituencies and to representatives of applicant constituencies; and On 8 June 2009 the Structural Improvements Committee of the Board Directors gave a set of clarification to questions posed by the GNSO Committee of the Whole; and http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/transcript-restructure-08jun09.pdf On 12 June 2009, the ICANN legal counsel gave a set of recommend edits to the GNSO Committee of the whole. http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/by-laws-legal-12jun09.pdf Resolved The GNSO recommends to the ICANN Board of Directors that the By-laws related to the GNSO council be amended to read as documented in: http://www.icann.org/en/general/proposed-gnso-council-bylaws-amendment-clean... The Motion passed. 12 Votes in favour: Adrian Kinderis, Tim Ruiz (Registrar constituency), Jordi Iparraguirre, Edmon Chung, Chuck Gomes (gTLD Registries constituency) (two votes each) Avri Doria, Olga Cavalli (Nominating Committee Appointees)(one vote each) 3 Abstentions: William Drake, Carlos Souza (Non-Commercial Users Constituency), Kristina Rosette (Intellectual Property Constituency). 1 Vote against: Cyril Chua (Intellectual Property Constituency). Absent Council members: Philip Sheppard, Mike Rodenbaugh, Zahid Jamil (Commercial and Business Users Constituency), Ute Decker (Intellectual Property Constituency), Tony Holmes, Tony Harris, Greg Ruth (Internet Service and Connectivity Providers Constituency), Mary Wong (Non-Commercial Users Constituency), Terry Davis (Nominating Committee Appointees), Stéphane van Gelder (Registrar constituency). Kristina Rosette: Reason for abstention: It is inappropriate for there to be a vote on the by-laws until we have a resolution of the allocation of Board seats 13 and 14 as well as the absence of language pertaining to the temporary transitional allocation of the six seats in the NCSG. Bill Drake: Reason for abstention Reason for abstention: I abstain because the document is not done and we are waiting for clarification of some closely linked issues that will affect our participation in the new GNSO Carlos Souza: Reason for abstaining: I understand that the wording regarding the NCSG seats have been changed and we do not have the blank space at the end of the clause as it was presented in Sydney. However, there are some issues that require further input and the document as today is still incomplete on that regard. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org