Bill, Do you know if we have a cost estimate for the set-up of real-time audio calls? I think we might need that information in order to consider the motion. Thanks, Caroline. -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of William Drake Sent: 15 June 2010 10:03 To: GNSO Council List Subject: [council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings Hello, In light of the bit of conversation over the past couple days concerning the relationship between Council members and their SGs, the ATRT process and our pending meeting with them, and internal discussions in NCSG, I hear by make the following motion. MOTION ON ENHANCING THE TRANSPARENCY OF GNSO COUNCIL MEETINGS WHEREAS the Affirmation of Commitments mandates that ICANN processes be made as transparent as possible; WHEREAS the GNSO Council seeks to promote broad community awareness of and engagement in GNSO activities; WHEREAS the GNSO Council is a management team whose elected members represent their respective Stakeholder Groups in a manner determined by those Stakeholder Groups; WHEREAS this representation function would be enhanced if Stakeholder Group members were able to listen in real time to Council meetings; and WHEREAS it would be impractical to open the GNSO Council meeting teleconference facility to Stakeholder Group members; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT: RESOLVED that beginning in July 2010, all GNSO Council teleconference meetings will be audiocast (in addition to being recorded) so that members of the community can listen in real time. *********************************************************** William J. Drake Senior Associate Centre for International Governance Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html www.linkedin.com/in/williamjdrake ***********************************************************