March 2017 - Gnso-bylaws-dt

Updated documents for your review
by Marika Konings April 6, 2017

April 6, 2017

Dear All, In preparation for our call next week, staff has updated the attached two documents. First of all, you’ll find attached the Staff Report with some of the clarifications provided by the DT as well as some of the additions requested in the executive summary. The idea is that at the end of the process we’ll be able to publish this document in conjunction with the revised Bylaws and GNSO Operating Procedures to serve as the background to the proposed changes. We’ve also updated the input table so that can be used for the next DT discussion, including the Bylaw language for the remaining items as requested. Please note that we have only 4 more items to discuss, although the document takes many pages to display the bylaws text for the remaining 4 items: 37 (Petition Process) 44 (Nominating Director Committee Removal Process) 45 (SO/AC Director Removal Process) 46 (Board Recall Process) Feel free to share any input you may want to provide on these items with the mailing list ahead of the meeting which has been scheduled for Thursday 6 April at 14.00 UTC. Best regards, Marika Marika Konings Vice President, Policy Development Support – GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: marika.konings(a)icann.org<mailto:marika.konings@icann.org> Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO Find out more about the GNSO by taking our interactive courses<http://learn.icann.org/courses/gnso> and visiting the GNSO Newcomer pages<http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-…>.

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New Doodle poll: Meeting next week GNSO Bylaws Drafting Team
by Nathalie Peregrine March 27, 2017

March 27, 2017

Dear all, Given the difficulty to find slots this week in which both members and supporting staff were available, please find below a new Doodle poll for next week, commencing on the 3rd April 2017. Doodle poll: https://icannorg.doodle.com/poll/tqvspudcb7h4q3xw Kind regards, Nathalie Nathalie Peregrine Specialist, SOAC Support (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: nathalie.peregrine(a)icann.org <nathalie.peregrine(a)icann.org%20> Skype: nathalie.peregrine.icann Find out more about the GNSO by taking our interactive courses<applewebdata://EB3A6F47-9760-400D-A39B-A7EFFC56B467/learn.icann.org/courses…> and visiting the GNSO Newcomer pages<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_sites_gn…>

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Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] [gnso-secs] URGENT: Second Update:Doodle poll: call next week GNSO Bylaws Drafting Team
by Nathalie Peregrine March 24, 2017

March 24, 2017

Dear all, Given the difficulty to find a convenient meeting time for all next week, please find the below Doodle poll with added slots. https://icannorg.doodle.com/poll/3n2688xtffyupdb5[icannorg.doodle.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__icannorg.doodle.com_po…> For those of you who have already entered your choices, please go back in and see if the added slots are more convenient for you. Kind regards Nathalie

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Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] [Ext] Re: For your review - Staff Report Bylaws & GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revisions & Legal Review
by Marika Konings March 15, 2017

March 15, 2017

To facilitate this process and make the document a bit more manageable, I’ve lifted out the table, grouped the questions and legal assessment together and created a separate column for DT input and a DT response. Of course, if there any other elements that need further consideration, apart from the issues identified in the executive summary, please feel free to add these to the table. Those that have not provided their input yet, please feel free to add to the table or send it to the list. Best regards, Marika From: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco(a)netchoice.org> Date: Monday, March 13, 2017 at 22:06 To: "Metalitz, Steven" <met(a)msk.com>, 'Wolf-Ulrich Knoben' <wolf-ulrich.knoben(a)t-online.de>, "gnso-bylaws-dt(a)icann.org" <gnso-bylaws-dt(a)icann.org> Cc: Marika Konings <marika.konings(a)icann.org> Subject: [Ext] Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] For your review - Staff Report Bylaws & GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revisions & Legal Review DT members: Thanks for looking at this in advance of our Wednesday working session. In the attached, I pasted the ISPCP points sent by Wolf-Ulrich via eat email below. And I added BC’s discussion points. (both in red, on pages 2-5. Glad to have others enter their points in the attached doc, or just send as email text and I will insert. —Steve From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 5:41 AM To: gnso-bylaws-dt(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] For your review - Staff Report Bylaws & GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revisions & Legal Review Steve and all, some short answers/comments: IN 1: yes IN 5: yes IN 15: yes, it should be documented. But Board member selection is done on house level, not SG. IN 37: Is this drafting team the right body to address this (I mean from its composition point of view)? Or shouldn't these procedural items been elaborated by the GNSO RT which took over similar tasks from the SCI? Who's the addressee of a petition in this context? A petition in principle could be filed from anyone within the GNSO community. Criteria should be developed with respect to the specific character of a petition in order to avoid that it just circumvents the GNSO's working process. IN 44-46: Maybe a kind of "PDP" (Petition Development Process): Raising an issue, preleminary evaluation by (legal?) staff, council decision... IN 45 (3/4 threshold): I tend to leave this decision with the body which appointed the board member (house). On the other hand each board member is accountable to the entire (SO?) community. This should be taken into consideration as well. Am 11.03.2017 um 17:07 schrieb Steve DelBianco: Thanks, Marika. When we completed our DT report late last year, we did promise to stay engaged and answer questions like these. So our first step is for each of us to read the draft and think about how to answer the 8 “Questions Identified” in column B, pages 1-4 of our attached doc. If we can each draft some rough answers to your questions, that would be a great setup for the meeting. From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Marika Konings <marika.konings(a)icann.org<mailto:marika.konings@icann.org>> Date: Monday, March 6, 2017 at 3:13 PM To: "gnso-bylaws-dt(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Subject: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] For your review - Staff Report Bylaws & GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revisions & Legal Review Dear Bylaws Drafting Team, As you will recall, on 1 December 2016, the GNSO Council directed ‘ICANN Policy Staff to draft proposed language for any necessary modifications or additions to the GNSO Operating Procedures and, if applicable, those parts of the ICANN Bylaws pertaining to the GNSO. The GNSO Council requests that ICANN Legal evaluate whether the proposed modifications are consistent with the post-transition Bylaws and report their findings to the GNSO Council’. In the analysis of the DT recommendations, staff took a minimalist approach by focusing on the minimum changes needed to implement the DT recommendations. However, in undertaking this work, staff did identify a number of questions and made a number of assumptions that it is requesting the DTs input on before this document and the revised ICANN Bylaws and GNSO Operating Procedures are published for public comment. You will find these questions and assumptions outlined in the attached document (in pdf and word version). To facilitate your review, the main questions have been flagged in the table contained in the executive summary. We realise that there may be little time for you to review this document ahead of ICANN58 but we hope you are available to join us for the session that has been scheduled on Wednesday 15 March from 17.00 – 18.30 local time (see http://sched.co/9nqV[sched.co]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sched.co_9nqV&d=DwMGaQ&…> for further details). This session is intended to walk you through our questions and assumptions as well as answer any questions you may have. The DT can also discuss how to proceed following ICANN58 to develop its input on these questions and assumptions which will then allow staff to finalise the documents for publication for public comment. We look forward to receiving your feedback. Best regards, Marika Marika Konings Vice President, Policy Development Support – GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: marika.konings(a)icann.org<mailto:marika.konings@icann.org> Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO Find out more about the GNSO by taking our interactive courses[learn.icann.org]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__learn.icann.org_courses…> and visiting the GNSO Newcomer pages[gnso.icann.org]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_sites_gn…>. _______________________________________________ Gnso-bylaws-dt mailing list Gnso-bylaws-dt(a)icann.org<mailto:Gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-bylaws-dt -- Am Steinringer Berg 19 53639 Königswinter Tel: 02244 873999 Fax: 02244 873955 Mob: 0151 1452 5867

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For your review - Staff Report Bylaws & GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revisions & Legal Review
by Marika Konings March 13, 2017

March 13, 2017

Dear Bylaws Drafting Team, As you will recall, on 1 December 2016, the GNSO Council directed ‘ICANN Policy Staff to draft proposed language for any necessary modifications or additions to the GNSO Operating Procedures and, if applicable, those parts of the ICANN Bylaws pertaining to the GNSO. The GNSO Council requests that ICANN Legal evaluate whether the proposed modifications are consistent with the post-transition Bylaws and report their findings to the GNSO Council’. In the analysis of the DT recommendations, staff took a minimalist approach by focusing on the minimum changes needed to implement the DT recommendations. However, in undertaking this work, staff did identify a number of questions and made a number of assumptions that it is requesting the DTs input on before this document and the revised ICANN Bylaws and GNSO Operating Procedures are published for public comment. You will find these questions and assumptions outlined in the attached document (in pdf and word version). To facilitate your review, the main questions have been flagged in the table contained in the executive summary. We realise that there may be little time for you to review this document ahead of ICANN58 but we hope you are available to join us for the session that has been scheduled on Wednesday 15 March from 17.00 – 18.30 local time (see http://sched.co/9nqV for further details). This session is intended to walk you through our questions and assumptions as well as answer any questions you may have. The DT can also discuss how to proceed following ICANN58 to develop its input on these questions and assumptions which will then allow staff to finalise the documents for publication for public comment. We look forward to receiving your feedback. Best regards, Marika Marika Konings Vice President, Policy Development Support – GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: marika.konings(a)icann.org<mailto:marika.konings@icann.org> Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO Find out more about the GNSO by taking our interactive courses<http://learn.icann.org/courses/gnso> and visiting the GNSO Newcomer pages<http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-…>.

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