RE: [council] ICANN Board Votes to Enhance New gTLDs Competition

Thanks Rosemary and Avri. I knew I had seen that somewhere but didn’t have time to find it yesterday.

Chuck

From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Rosemary Sinclair
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:07 AM
To: Avri Doria; GNSO Council
Subject: RE: [council] ICANN Board Votes to Enhance New gTLDs Competition

Hi folks

Here's a contribution from a question I asked Avri - I thought we had dome something on this but couldn't remember

But thanks to Avri here's some info!

Cheers

Rosemary

Rosemary Sinclair

Managing Director, ATUG

Chairman, INTUG

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-----Original Message-----
From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri@psg.com]
Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2010 5:01 PM
To: Rosemary Sinclair
Subject: Re: [council] ICANN Board Votes to Enhance New gTLDs Competition

Hi,

I do remember that point in advice, and in discussions, but I do not believe it was codified anywhere yet. I be wrong. I had to do some search.

- It is not in the bylaws or the newly propose council guidelines.

- For history the old guidelines (circa 2002 of the council stated (notice the last line):

http://gnso.icann.org/council/new-procedures.shtml

2.3 Each Constituency identified in paragraph 1 of this Section shall maintain its recognition, and thus its ability to select GNSO Council representatives, only so long as it in fact represents the interests globally of the stakeholder communities it purports to represent, and shall operate to the maximum extent feasible in an open and transparent manner and consistent with procedures designed to ensure fairness. No individual or entity shall be excluded from participation in a Constituency merely because of participation in another Constituency.

- however:

In Recommended Common Operating Principles and Participation Guidelines for GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies and Recommendations on a GNSO Database of Community Members For Operations Steering Committee (OSC) Consideration 27 May 2010

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-csg-recommendations-task-27may10-en.pdf

we find

2.1.2 j. No legal or natural person should be entitled to join more than one Group as a voting member.

which it seems you approved as motion 20100805-1

http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201008

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council approves the following CSG-WT deliverable which is organized into two sections as follows:

• Sections 2.1 & 2.2: Recommended Common Operating Principles and Participation Guidelines for GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies, which Staff has incorporated into a new Chapter 7.0 in the above-referenced GNSO Operating Procedures; and

• Section 2.3: Recommendations on a GNSO Database of Community Members.

so putting together the old

No individual or entity shall be excluded from participation in a Constituency merely because of participation in another Constituency.

+ the new

No legal or natural person should be entitled to join more than one Group as a voting member.

You get what you are looking for. sort of.

On 10 Nov 2010, at 23:05, Rosemary Sinclair wrote:

> Hi Avri

> Do you know the answer???

> Cheers

> Rosemary

> Rosemary Sinclair

> Managing Director, ATUG

> Chairman, INTUG

> T: +61 2 94958901 F: +61 2 94193889

> M: +61 413734490

> Email: rosemary.sinclair@atug.org.au

> Skype: rasinclair

> Please visit the ATUG website for Updates and Information www.atug.com.au

> From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg

> Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2010 3:01 PM

> To: Adrian Kinderis; Gomes, Chuck; Council GNSO

> Subject: RE: [council] ICANN Board Votes to Enhance New gTLDs Competition

> Can you point to where the Bylaws (or anything else) say that? Alan

> At 10/11/2010 08:53 PM, Adrian Kinderis wrote:

> Right.

> So you can be a member of each. Just not a voting member.

> Adrian Kinderis

> From: Gomes, Chuck [ mailto:cgomes@verisign.com]

> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:47 AM

> To: Alan Greenberg; Adrian Kinderis; Council GNSO

> Subject: RE: (SCL > 6): [council] ICANN Board Votes to Enhance New gTLDs Competition

> I believe the revised Bylaws GNSO provisions require that someone may not vote in more than one SG or Constituency.

> Chuck

> From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [ mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg

> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:42 PM

> To: Adrian Kinderis; Council GNSO

> Subject: Re: (SCL > 6): [council] ICANN Board Votes to Enhance New gTLDs Competition

> The old Bylaws said that an organization could be a member of more than one Constituency. I would have sworn that the new Bylaws explicitly said that you could not participate in multiple SG and had to choose, but I cannot find that clause there. Is there a rule in either SG charter about multiple memberships??

> Alan

> At 10/11/2010 02:18 AM, Adrian Kinderis wrote:

> Wow!

> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-09nov10-en.htm

> So what happens to the Contracted Party house? Did they think of that? ;)

> Adrian Kinderis