MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016
Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording for the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team- call held on Monday 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3 The recordings and transcriptions of the calls areposted on the GNSO Master Calendar page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_calendar_&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=ZcYHF2QGlCtABZDiDObwcQHmpsb90P4iF2vFgdLqjz8&e=> Attendees: Amr Elsadr Darcy Southwell Edward Morris Farzaneh Badii Steve Delbianco Steve Metalitz Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Apologies: None ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Marika Konings Glen de Saint Géry Terri Agnew Yeşim Nazlar ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Mailing list archive: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/ DT wikispace: https://community.icann.org/x/yhCsAw<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_x_yhCsAw&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=JPXAw6D9RvnMu8tWdiLoAiQ_rBKW2_ypVhMMfcWO4ZM&e=> Thank you. Kind regards, Yeşim Adobe Chat Transcript for Monday, 10 October 2016 Yesim Nazlar: Welcome to the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Call held on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC Yesim Nazlar: Wiki Agenda Page: https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw Terri Agnew: Wolf -Ullrich joined on telephone Terri Agnew: and now on Adobe Connect Terri Agnew: Welcome Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Hi all Edward Morris: Hi Wolf-Ulrich Marika Konings: but the provision does include "pursuant to each such organizations’ procedures" - simple majority is defined as simple majority of each house, no? matthew shears: do we have to make a recommendaiton? I think we could note the "discrepancy" in the bylaws in the report matthew shears: agree Steve Marika Konings: and I think that is how it was interpreted for the last vote on the CSC membership (simple majority of each house) Julie Hedlund: @Steve: Staff didn't add anything -- just excerpted the language from the Bylaws to show how the language is consistent in the two sections. Marika Konings: I just checked the Bylaws and Operating Procedures and there is no other definition of simple majority than simple majority of each house, so factoring in 'pursuant to each organizations procedures' doesn't that provide sufficient guidance that it relates to simple majority of each house, which as such would not require any further clarification of the Bylaws? Edward Morris: I'm fine with that Steve D. Amr Elsadr: @Marika: Good point. Agree. matthew shears: agree steve metalitz: The Operating Procedures do not repeal laws of mathematics under which a majority of GNSO Council does not equal a majority of council members. Amr Elsadr: Agree Steve. Marika Konings: My point is that it would be currently interpreted as defined as simple majority of each house as that is the only definition in existence Marika Konings: if it would need to mean different than that, it would need to be defined. Apologies if I wasn't clear. Marika Konings: for the last vote on CSC, I do believe it was interpreted as simple majority of each house, but if that was in error, it would be important to point that out. Amr Elsadr: @Steve: I understand what you're saying. Easier for the GNSO to clarify this in the OP rather than ask for the bylaws to be changed. I'm fine calling it the chicken's way out, but it is more practical and allows for flexibility. It shouldn't be confusing either. Steve DelBianco: not an error, Marika. The Council used it's Default Rule to pass a resoultion unrelated to policy. Edward Morris: Agreed Amr Elsadr: No objection. Darcy Southwell: Agreed. Edward Morris: Yes Amr Elsadr: SM is a good threshold for these two decisions, I believe. matthew shears: OK Amr Elsadr: Whoops. SM = Super Majority. :) steve metalitz: agree with supermajority on 25.2 matthew shears: agree also Amr Elsadr: Also agree with super M. on 26a. matthew shears: on 26a Farzaneh Badii: agree with super maj on 26a Amr Elsadr: I beleive that full consensus in the OP = the absence of any objecting or dissenting opinion. Amr Elsadr: But need to check. Marika Konings: From the GNSO OP: Full consensus - when no one in the group speaks against the recommendation in its last readings. This is also sometimes referred to as Unanimous Consensus steve metalitz: Just to complete the record re "simple majority," note the following from comments filed by COA on 9/12/15 on CCWG Accountability 2d Draft Proposal: And even assuming that the GNSO Council is the appropriate body to vote on, e.g.,petitioning to remove a director appointed by the Nominating Committee (p. 59), a function that seems far removed from “management of the policy development process,” each House always votes separately and votes are tallied separately; so it will need to be specified whether a “simple majority” of the Council means a “simple majority” of each of the two Houses. steve metalitz: My point is that this issue was raised to CCWG Accountability. We cannot assume that their use of "simple majority" was a mistake. Darcy Southwell: Agree on 1.3(a). Amr Elsadr: @Darcy: +1 matthew shears: agree also Darcy Southwell: Agree. Amr Elsadr: Simple majority again. Amr Elsadr: I mean for 2.3(h). Darcy Southwell: I think 2.3(h) should be majority of each house. Amr Elsadr: Shouldn't the decision to reject and resolve the issue be the same? Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I'd stay with majority Amr Elsadr: Agree with Ed, WUK and Darcy. matthew shears: + 1 Amr Elsadr: @Steve: Right. :) Farzaneh Badii: majority of each house on 2.3(h) is fine . Amr Elsadr: I prefer a simple majority, not super. Amr Elsadr: For spilling the Board. Edward Morris: correct Amr Elsadr: Correct Steve. matthew shears: I good with that asl well Marika Konings: he GNSO shall nominate by written ballot or by action at a meeting individuals to fill Seats 13 and 14 on the Board. Each of the two voting Houses of the GNSO, as described in Section 11.3(h), shall make a nomination to fill one of two Board seats, as outlined below; any such nomination must have affirmative votes compromising sixty percent (60%) of all the respective voting House members: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: So e.g. an ASO rep could not request a removal of a GNSO board member? Amr Elsadr: Yes. We're talking about directors who rep Houses within the GNSO. steve metalitz: The last sentence of 3.2 states: the Applicable Decisional Participant shall inform the EC Administration as to whether the Decisional Participant has support for the SO/AC Director Removal Petition of a three-quarters majority as determined pursuant to the internal procedures of the Applicable Decisional Participant. steve metalitz: How do we define "three-quarters majoirty"? Amr Elsadr: @SteveDB: I don't recollect a 3/4s threshold for anything either. Amr Elsadr: An easy way to set this up would be a new threshold of 3/4s of each House would be required to vote in favor of removing the director. Amr Elsadr: This threshold does not exist, but as we noted in the first couple of weeks of this DT, we can always recommend new thresholds that do not currently exist. Amr Elsadr: Doesn't 3/4 of the House not meet the bylaw threshold? Edward Morris: I don't like it but we have the bylaws limitation Amr Elsadr: Ah. Interesting point Steve. Darcy Southwell: Ed +1 steve metalitz: 3/4 of council but recognize this coudl lead to bad results. Amr Elsadr: I would like to add my agreement to 3/4s of the House. Amr Elsadr: Please add me along with Darcy and Ed to "Single House". matthew shears: please add me also to majority of single house with Amr Ed and Darcy Farzaneh Badii: I agree to 3/4 of the single house too. Please note this in the notes. thanks matthew shears: 3/4 I meant as Farzi matthew shears: please add in notes Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I've doubts whether a single house vote could be sufficient since board members are representing the community, not a house. matthew shears: fair point Farzaneh Badii: I will be happy if you put the recommendations on the first or second page Steve and then go into details of how we came up with the recommendations. Darcy Southwell: Agree that putitng the recommendsations up front and place the explanations in the following pages steve metalitz: +1 Darcy, which supports Steve D's proposal Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Amr Elsadr: David is not on the call to indicate his position as well. It may be helpful to take the consensus of this on-list. Edward Morris: +1 Amr Edward Morris: Yes Farzaneh Badii: yeah Steve DelBianco: staff -- would you please load the 11.3 section I drafted? Amr Elsadr: Thanks. Amr Elsadr: It's actually shorter than most WG reports. Edward Morris: Agreed. Julie Hedlund: unsynced matthew shears: I have some sympathy with Wolf-Ulrich's view that board members represent the community and that should be taken into account Edward Morris: Thanks to staff. Good approach Steve, thank you. steve metalitz: Thank you Steve! Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Thanks very much Steve! matthew shears: thanks all Amr Elsadr: Thanks Steve and all. Great work on this in a short timeframe. Farzaneh Badii: Thanks Steve for all your work Farzaneh Badii: bye Julie Hedlund: Thanks everyone! Amr Elsadr: Bye.
Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages. Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table. Working on the revised report now… From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org<mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:30 PM To: "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording for the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team- call held on Monday 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3 The recordings and transcriptions of the calls areposted on the GNSO Master Calendar page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_calendar_&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=ZcYHF2QGlCtABZDiDObwcQHmpsb90P4iF2vFgdLqjz8&e=> Attendees: Amr Elsadr Darcy Southwell Edward Morris Farzaneh Badii Steve Delbianco Steve Metalitz Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Apologies: None ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Marika Konings Glen de Saint Géry Terri Agnew Yeşim Nazlar ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Mailing list archive: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/ DT wikispace: https://community.icann.org/x/yhCsAw<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_x_yhCsAw&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=JPXAw6D9RvnMu8tWdiLoAiQ_rBKW2_ypVhMMfcWO4ZM&e=> Thank you. Kind regards, Yeşim Adobe Chat Transcript for Monday, 10 October 2016 Yesim Nazlar: Welcome to the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Call held on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC Yesim Nazlar: Wiki Agenda Page: https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw Terri Agnew: Wolf -Ullrich joined on telephone Terri Agnew: and now on Adobe Connect Terri Agnew: Welcome Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Hi all Edward Morris: Hi Wolf-Ulrich Marika Konings: but the provision does include "pursuant to each such organizations’ procedures" - simple majority is defined as simple majority of each house, no? matthew shears: do we have to make a recommendaiton? I think we could note the "discrepancy" in the bylaws in the report matthew shears: agree Steve Marika Konings: and I think that is how it was interpreted for the last vote on the CSC membership (simple majority of each house) Julie Hedlund: @Steve: Staff didn't add anything -- just excerpted the language from the Bylaws to show how the language is consistent in the two sections. Marika Konings: I just checked the Bylaws and Operating Procedures and there is no other definition of simple majority than simple majority of each house, so factoring in 'pursuant to each organizations procedures' doesn't that provide sufficient guidance that it relates to simple majority of each house, which as such would not require any further clarification of the Bylaws? Edward Morris: I'm fine with that Steve D. Amr Elsadr: @Marika: Good point. Agree. matthew shears: agree steve metalitz: The Operating Procedures do not repeal laws of mathematics under which a majority of GNSO Council does not equal a majority of council members. Amr Elsadr: Agree Steve. Marika Konings: My point is that it would be currently interpreted as defined as simple majority of each house as that is the only definition in existence Marika Konings: if it would need to mean different than that, it would need to be defined. Apologies if I wasn't clear. Marika Konings: for the last vote on CSC, I do believe it was interpreted as simple majority of each house, but if that was in error, it would be important to point that out. Amr Elsadr: @Steve: I understand what you're saying. Easier for the GNSO to clarify this in the OP rather than ask for the bylaws to be changed. I'm fine calling it the chicken's way out, but it is more practical and allows for flexibility. It shouldn't be confusing either. Steve DelBianco: not an error, Marika. The Council used it's Default Rule to pass a resoultion unrelated to policy. Edward Morris: Agreed Amr Elsadr: No objection. Darcy Southwell: Agreed. Edward Morris: Yes Amr Elsadr: SM is a good threshold for these two decisions, I believe. matthew shears: OK Amr Elsadr: Whoops. SM = Super Majority. :) steve metalitz: agree with supermajority on 25.2 matthew shears: agree also Amr Elsadr: Also agree with super M. on 26a. matthew shears: on 26a Farzaneh Badii: agree with super maj on 26a Amr Elsadr: I beleive that full consensus in the OP = the absence of any objecting or dissenting opinion. Amr Elsadr: But need to check. Marika Konings: From the GNSO OP: Full consensus - when no one in the group speaks against the recommendation in its last readings. This is also sometimes referred to as Unanimous Consensus steve metalitz: Just to complete the record re "simple majority," note the following from comments filed by COA on 9/12/15 on CCWG Accountability 2d Draft Proposal: And even assuming that the GNSO Council is the appropriate body to vote on, e.g.,petitioning to remove a director appointed by the Nominating Committee (p. 59), a function that seems far removed from “management of the policy development process,” each House always votes separately and votes are tallied separately; so it will need to be specified whether a “simple majority” of the Council means a “simple majority” of each of the two Houses. steve metalitz: My point is that this issue was raised to CCWG Accountability. We cannot assume that their use of "simple majority" was a mistake. Darcy Southwell: Agree on 1.3(a). Amr Elsadr: @Darcy: +1 matthew shears: agree also Darcy Southwell: Agree. Amr Elsadr: Simple majority again. Amr Elsadr: I mean for 2.3(h). Darcy Southwell: I think 2.3(h) should be majority of each house. Amr Elsadr: Shouldn't the decision to reject and resolve the issue be the same? Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I'd stay with majority Amr Elsadr: Agree with Ed, WUK and Darcy. matthew shears: + 1 Amr Elsadr: @Steve: Right. :) Farzaneh Badii: majority of each house on 2.3(h) is fine . Amr Elsadr: I prefer a simple majority, not super. Amr Elsadr: For spilling the Board. Edward Morris: correct Amr Elsadr: Correct Steve. matthew shears: I good with that asl well Marika Konings: he GNSO shall nominate by written ballot or by action at a meeting individuals to fill Seats 13 and 14 on the Board. Each of the two voting Houses of the GNSO, as described in Section 11.3(h), shall make a nomination to fill one of two Board seats, as outlined below; any such nomination must have affirmative votes compromising sixty percent (60%) of all the respective voting House members: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: So e.g. an ASO rep could not request a removal of a GNSO board member? Amr Elsadr: Yes. We're talking about directors who rep Houses within the GNSO. steve metalitz: The last sentence of 3.2 states: theApplicable DecisionalParticipant shallinform theEC Administrationas towhether theDecisional Participanthas supportfor theSO/AC DirectorRemoval Petitionof athree-quarters majority asdetermined pursuantto theinternal proceduresof theApplicable DecisionalParticipant. steve metalitz: How do we define "three-quarters majoirty"? Amr Elsadr: @SteveDB: I don't recollect a 3/4s threshold for anything either. Amr Elsadr: An easy way to set this up would be a new threshold of 3/4s of each House would be required to vote in favor of removing the director. Amr Elsadr: This threshold does not exist, but as we noted in the first couple of weeks of this DT, we can always recommend new thresholds that do not currently exist. Amr Elsadr: Doesn't 3/4 of the House not meet the bylaw threshold? Edward Morris: I don't like it but we have the bylaws limitation Amr Elsadr: Ah. Interesting point Steve. Darcy Southwell: Ed +1 steve metalitz: 3/4 of council but recognize this coudl lead to bad results. Amr Elsadr: I would like to add my agreement to 3/4s of the House. Amr Elsadr: Please add me along with Darcy and Ed to "Single House". matthew shears: please add me also to majority of single house with Amr Ed and Darcy Farzaneh Badii: I agree to 3/4 of the single house too. Please note this in the notes. thanks matthew shears: 3/4 I meant as Farzi matthew shears: please add in notes Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I've doubts whether a single house vote could be sufficient since board members are representing the community, not a house. matthew shears: fair point Farzaneh Badii: I will be happy if you put the recommendations on the first or second page Steve and then go into details of how we came up with the recommendations. Darcy Southwell: Agree that putitng the recommendsations up front and place the explanations in the following pages steve metalitz: +1 Darcy, which supports Steve D's proposal Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Amr Elsadr: David is not on the call to indicate his position as well. It may be helpful to take the consensus of this on-list. Edward Morris: +1 Amr Edward Morris: Yes Farzaneh Badii: yeah Steve DelBianco: staff -- would you please load the 11.3 section I drafted? Amr Elsadr: Thanks. Amr Elsadr: It's actually shorter than most WG reports. Edward Morris: Agreed. Julie Hedlund: unsynced matthew shears: I have some sympathy with Wolf-Ulrich's view that board members represent the community and that should be taken into account Edward Morris: Thanks to staff. Good approach Steve, thank you. steve metalitz: Thank you Steve! Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Thanks very much Steve! matthew shears: thanks all Amr Elsadr: Thanks Steve and all. Great work on this in a short timeframe. Farzaneh Badii: Thanks Steve for all your work Farzaneh Badii: bye Julie Hedlund: Thanks everyone! Amr Elsadr: Bye.
Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column. In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column. Steve Metalitz [image001] Steven J. 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From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve DelBianco Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:33 PM To: Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages. Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table. Working on the revised report now… From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org<mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:30 PM To: "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording for the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team- call held on Monday 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3<http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3> The recordings and transcriptions of the calls areposted on the GNSO Master Calendar page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_calendar_&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=ZcYHF2QGlCtABZDiDObwcQHmpsb90P4iF2vFgdLqjz8&e=> Attendees: Amr Elsadr Darcy Southwell Edward Morris Farzaneh Badii Steve Delbianco Steve Metalitz Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Apologies: None ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Marika Konings Glen de Saint Géry Terri Agnew Yeşim Nazlar ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Mailing list archive: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/> DT wikispace: https://community.icann.org/x/yhCsAw<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_x_yhCsAw&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=JPXAw6D9RvnMu8tWdiLoAiQ_rBKW2_ypVhMMfcWO4ZM&e=> Thank you. Kind regards, Yeşim Adobe Chat Transcript for Monday, 10 October 2016 Yesim Nazlar: Welcome to the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Call held on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC Yesim Nazlar: Wiki Agenda Page: https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw<https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw> Terri Agnew: Wolf -Ullrich joined on telephone Terri Agnew: and now on Adobe Connect Terri Agnew: Welcome Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Hi all Edward Morris: Hi Wolf-Ulrich Marika Konings: but the provision does include "pursuant to each such organizations’ procedures" - simple majority is defined as simple majority of each house, no? matthew shears: do we have to make a recommendaiton? I think we could note the "discrepancy" in the bylaws in the report matthew shears: agree Steve Marika Konings: and I think that is how it was interpreted for the last vote on the CSC membership (simple majority of each house) Julie Hedlund: @Steve: Staff didn't add anything -- just excerpted the language from the Bylaws to show how the language is consistent in the two sections. Marika Konings: I just checked the Bylaws and Operating Procedures and there is no other definition of simple majority than simple majority of each house, so factoring in 'pursuant to each organizations procedures' doesn't that provide sufficient guidance that it relates to simple majority of each house, which as such would not require any further clarification of the Bylaws? Edward Morris: I'm fine with that Steve D. Amr Elsadr: @Marika: Good point. Agree. matthew shears: agree steve metalitz: The Operating Procedures do not repeal laws of mathematics under which a majority of GNSO Council does not equal a majority of council members. Amr Elsadr: Agree Steve. Marika Konings: My point is that it would be currently interpreted as defined as simple majority of each house as that is the only definition in existence Marika Konings: if it would need to mean different than that, it would need to be defined. Apologies if I wasn't clear. Marika Konings: for the last vote on CSC, I do believe it was interpreted as simple majority of each house, but if that was in error, it would be important to point that out. Amr Elsadr: @Steve: I understand what you're saying. Easier for the GNSO to clarify this in the OP rather than ask for the bylaws to be changed. I'm fine calling it the chicken's way out, but it is more practical and allows for flexibility. It shouldn't be confusing either. Steve DelBianco: not an error, Marika. The Council used it's Default Rule to pass a resoultion unrelated to policy. Edward Morris: Agreed Amr Elsadr: No objection. Darcy Southwell: Agreed. Edward Morris: Yes Amr Elsadr: SM is a good threshold for these two decisions, I believe. matthew shears: OK Amr Elsadr: Whoops. SM = Super Majority. :) steve metalitz: agree with supermajority on 25.2 matthew shears: agree also Amr Elsadr: Also agree with super M. on 26a. matthew shears: on 26a Farzaneh Badii: agree with super maj on 26a Amr Elsadr: I beleive that full consensus in the OP = the absence of any objecting or dissenting opinion. Amr Elsadr: But need to check. Marika Konings: From the GNSO OP: Full consensus - when no one in the group speaks against the recommendation in its last readings. This is also sometimes referred to as Unanimous Consensus steve metalitz: Just to complete the record re "simple majority," note the following from comments filed by COA on 9/12/15 on CCWG Accountability 2d Draft Proposal: And even assuming that the GNSO Council is the appropriate body to vote on, e.g.,petitioning to remove a director appointed by the Nominating Committee (p. 59), a function that seems far removed from “management of the policy development process,” each House always votes separately and votes are tallied separately; so it will need to be specified whether a “simple majority” of the Council means a “simple majority” of each of the two Houses. steve metalitz: My point is that this issue was raised to CCWG Accountability. We cannot assume that their use of "simple majority" was a mistake. Darcy Southwell: Agree on 1.3(a). Amr Elsadr: @Darcy: +1 matthew shears: agree also Darcy Southwell: Agree. Amr Elsadr: Simple majority again. Amr Elsadr: I mean for 2.3(h). Darcy Southwell: I think 2.3(h) should be majority of each house. Amr Elsadr: Shouldn't the decision to reject and resolve the issue be the same? Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I'd stay with majority Amr Elsadr: Agree with Ed, WUK and Darcy. matthew shears: + 1 Amr Elsadr: @Steve: Right. :) Farzaneh Badii: majority of each house on 2.3(h) is fine . Amr Elsadr: I prefer a simple majority, not super. Amr Elsadr: For spilling the Board. Edward Morris: correct Amr Elsadr: Correct Steve. matthew shears: I good with that asl well Marika Konings: he GNSO shall nominate by written ballot or by action at a meeting individuals to fill Seats 13 and 14 on the Board. Each of the two voting Houses of the GNSO, as described in Section 11.3(h), shall make a nomination to fill one of two Board seats, as outlined below; any such nomination must have affirmative votes compromising sixty percent (60%) of all the respective voting House members: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: So e.g. an ASO rep could not request a removal of a GNSO board member? Amr Elsadr: Yes. We're talking about directors who rep Houses within the GNSO. steve metalitz: The last sentence of 3.2 states: theApplicable DecisionalParticipant shallinform theEC Administrationas towhether theDecisional Participanthas supportfor theSO/AC DirectorRemoval Petitionof athree-quarters majority asdetermined pursuantto theinternal proceduresof theApplicable DecisionalParticipant. steve metalitz: How do we define "three-quarters majoirty"? Amr Elsadr: @SteveDB: I don't recollect a 3/4s threshold for anything either. Amr Elsadr: An easy way to set this up would be a new threshold of 3/4s of each House would be required to vote in favor of removing the director. Amr Elsadr: This threshold does not exist, but as we noted in the first couple of weeks of this DT, we can always recommend new thresholds that do not currently exist. Amr Elsadr: Doesn't 3/4 of the House not meet the bylaw threshold? Edward Morris: I don't like it but we have the bylaws limitation Amr Elsadr: Ah. Interesting point Steve. Darcy Southwell: Ed +1 steve metalitz: 3/4 of council but recognize this coudl lead to bad results. Amr Elsadr: I would like to add my agreement to 3/4s of the House. Amr Elsadr: Please add me along with Darcy and Ed to "Single House". matthew shears: please add me also to majority of single house with Amr Ed and Darcy Farzaneh Badii: I agree to 3/4 of the single house too. Please note this in the notes. thanks matthew shears: 3/4 I meant as Farzi matthew shears: please add in notes Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I've doubts whether a single house vote could be sufficient since board members are representing the community, not a house. matthew shears: fair point Farzaneh Badii: I will be happy if you put the recommendations on the first or second page Steve and then go into details of how we came up with the recommendations. Darcy Southwell: Agree that putitng the recommendsations up front and place the explanations in the following pages steve metalitz: +1 Darcy, which supports Steve D's proposal Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Amr Elsadr: David is not on the call to indicate his position as well. It may be helpful to take the consensus of this on-list. Edward Morris: +1 Amr Edward Morris: Yes Farzaneh Badii: yeah Steve DelBianco: staff -- would you please load the 11.3 section I drafted? Amr Elsadr: Thanks. Amr Elsadr: It's actually shorter than most WG reports. Edward Morris: Agreed. Julie Hedlund: unsynced matthew shears: I have some sympathy with Wolf-Ulrich's view that board members represent the community and that should be taken into account Edward Morris: Thanks to staff. Good approach Steve, thank you. steve metalitz: Thank you Steve! Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Thanks very much Steve! matthew shears: thanks all Amr Elsadr: Thanks Steve and all. Great work on this in a short timeframe. Farzaneh Badii: Thanks Steve for all your work Farzaneh Badii: bye Julie Hedlund: Thanks everyone! Amr Elsadr: Bye.
Thanks, Steve. I’ve made your requested changes in the attached “Map”. Also attached is the revised Final Report by our DT. Note that the Background and Recommendations are on page 1. On page 2 we have the “Evolution of these recommendations, including Drafting Team deliberations”. I removed names of DT members in that section. I’ll be traveling over the next 4 hours and will look for DT member reactions/edits by 12 UTC on Tuesday 11-Oct. —Steve From: Steve Metalitz <met@msk.com<mailto:met@msk.com>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:54 PM To: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org<mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org>>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org<mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: RE: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column. In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column. Steve Metalitz [image001] Steven J. 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From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve DelBianco Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:33 PM To: Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages. Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table. Working on the revised report now… From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org<mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:30 PM To: "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording for the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team- call held on Monday 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3 The recordings and transcriptions of the calls areposted on the GNSO Master Calendar page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_calendar_&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=ZcYHF2QGlCtABZDiDObwcQHmpsb90P4iF2vFgdLqjz8&e=> Attendees: Amr Elsadr Darcy Southwell Edward Morris Farzaneh Badii Steve Delbianco Steve Metalitz Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Apologies: None ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Marika Konings Glen de Saint Géry Terri Agnew Yeşim Nazlar ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Mailing list archive: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/ DT wikispace: https://community.icann.org/x/yhCsAw<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_x_yhCsAw&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=JPXAw6D9RvnMu8tWdiLoAiQ_rBKW2_ypVhMMfcWO4ZM&e=> Thank you. Kind regards, Yeşim Adobe Chat Transcript for Monday, 10 October 2016 Yesim Nazlar: Welcome to the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Call held on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC Yesim Nazlar: Wiki Agenda Page: https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw Terri Agnew: Wolf -Ullrich joined on telephone Terri Agnew: and now on Adobe Connect Terri Agnew: Welcome Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Hi all Edward Morris: Hi Wolf-Ulrich Marika Konings: but the provision does include "pursuant to each such organizations’ procedures" - simple majority is defined as simple majority of each house, no? matthew shears: do we have to make a recommendaiton? I think we could note the "discrepancy" in the bylaws in the report matthew shears: agree Steve Marika Konings: and I think that is how it was interpreted for the last vote on the CSC membership (simple majority of each house) Julie Hedlund: @Steve: Staff didn't add anything -- just excerpted the language from the Bylaws to show how the language is consistent in the two sections. Marika Konings: I just checked the Bylaws and Operating Procedures and there is no other definition of simple majority than simple majority of each house, so factoring in 'pursuant to each organizations procedures' doesn't that provide sufficient guidance that it relates to simple majority of each house, which as such would not require any further clarification of the Bylaws? Edward Morris: I'm fine with that Steve D. Amr Elsadr: @Marika: Good point. Agree. matthew shears: agree steve metalitz: The Operating Procedures do not repeal laws of mathematics under which a majority of GNSO Council does not equal a majority of council members. Amr Elsadr: Agree Steve. Marika Konings: My point is that it would be currently interpreted as defined as simple majority of each house as that is the only definition in existence Marika Konings: if it would need to mean different than that, it would need to be defined. Apologies if I wasn't clear. Marika Konings: for the last vote on CSC, I do believe it was interpreted as simple majority of each house, but if that was in error, it would be important to point that out. Amr Elsadr: @Steve: I understand what you're saying. Easier for the GNSO to clarify this in the OP rather than ask for the bylaws to be changed. I'm fine calling it the chicken's way out, but it is more practical and allows for flexibility. It shouldn't be confusing either. Steve DelBianco: not an error, Marika. The Council used it's Default Rule to pass a resoultion unrelated to policy. Edward Morris: Agreed Amr Elsadr: No objection. Darcy Southwell: Agreed. Edward Morris: Yes Amr Elsadr: SM is a good threshold for these two decisions, I believe. matthew shears: OK Amr Elsadr: Whoops. SM = Super Majority. :) steve metalitz: agree with supermajority on 25.2 matthew shears: agree also Amr Elsadr: Also agree with super M. on 26a. matthew shears: on 26a Farzaneh Badii: agree with super maj on 26a Amr Elsadr: I beleive that full consensus in the OP = the absence of any objecting or dissenting opinion. Amr Elsadr: But need to check. Marika Konings: From the GNSO OP: Full consensus - when no one in the group speaks against the recommendation in its last readings. This is also sometimes referred to as Unanimous Consensus steve metalitz: Just to complete the record re "simple majority," note the following from comments filed by COA on 9/12/15 on CCWG Accountability 2d Draft Proposal: And even assuming that the GNSO Council is the appropriate body to vote on, e.g.,petitioning to remove a director appointed by the Nominating Committee (p. 59), a function that seems far removed from “management of the policy development process,” each House always votes separately and votes are tallied separately; so it will need to be specified whether a “simple majority” of the Council means a “simple majority” of each of the two Houses. steve metalitz: My point is that this issue was raised to CCWG Accountability. We cannot assume that their use of "simple majority" was a mistake. Darcy Southwell: Agree on 1.3(a). Amr Elsadr: @Darcy: +1 matthew shears: agree also Darcy Southwell: Agree. Amr Elsadr: Simple majority again. Amr Elsadr: I mean for 2.3(h). Darcy Southwell: I think 2.3(h) should be majority of each house. Amr Elsadr: Shouldn't the decision to reject and resolve the issue be the same? Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I'd stay with majority Amr Elsadr: Agree with Ed, WUK and Darcy. matthew shears: + 1 Amr Elsadr: @Steve: Right. :) Farzaneh Badii: majority of each house on 2.3(h) is fine . Amr Elsadr: I prefer a simple majority, not super. Amr Elsadr: For spilling the Board. Edward Morris: correct Amr Elsadr: Correct Steve. matthew shears: I good with that asl well Marika Konings: he GNSO shall nominate by written ballot or by action at a meeting individuals to fill Seats 13 and 14 on the Board. Each of the two voting Houses of the GNSO, as described in Section 11.3(h), shall make a nomination to fill one of two Board seats, as outlined below; any such nomination must have affirmative votes compromising sixty percent (60%) of all the respective voting House members: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: So e.g. an ASO rep could not request a removal of a GNSO board member? Amr Elsadr: Yes. We're talking about directors who rep Houses within the GNSO. steve metalitz: The last sentence of 3.2 states: theApplicable DecisionalParticipant shallinform theEC Administrationas towhether theDecisional Participanthas supportfor theSO/AC DirectorRemoval Petitionof athree-quarters majorityasdetermined pursuantto theinternal proceduresof theApplicable DecisionalParticipant. steve metalitz: How do we define "three-quarters majoirty"? Amr Elsadr: @SteveDB: I don't recollect a 3/4s threshold for anything either. Amr Elsadr: An easy way to set this up would be a new threshold of 3/4s of each House would be required to vote in favor of removing the director. Amr Elsadr: This threshold does not exist, but as we noted in the first couple of weeks of this DT, we can always recommend new thresholds that do not currently exist. Amr Elsadr: Doesn't 3/4 of the House not meet the bylaw threshold? Edward Morris: I don't like it but we have the bylaws limitation Amr Elsadr: Ah. Interesting point Steve. Darcy Southwell: Ed +1 steve metalitz: 3/4 of council but recognize this coudl lead to bad results. Amr Elsadr: I would like to add my agreement to 3/4s of the House. Amr Elsadr: Please add me along with Darcy and Ed to "Single House". matthew shears: please add me also to majority of single house with Amr Ed and Darcy Farzaneh Badii: I agree to 3/4 of the single house too. Please note this in the notes. thanks matthew shears: 3/4 I meant as Farzi matthew shears: please add in notes Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I've doubts whether a single house vote could be sufficient since board members are representing the community, not a house. matthew shears: fair point Farzaneh Badii: I will be happy if you put the recommendations on the first or second page Steve and then go into details of how we came up with the recommendations. Darcy Southwell: Agree that putitng the recommendsations up front and place the explanations in the following pages steve metalitz: +1 Darcy, which supports Steve D's proposal Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Amr Elsadr: David is not on the call to indicate his position as well. It may be helpful to take the consensus of this on-list. Edward Morris: +1 Amr Edward Morris: Yes Farzaneh Badii: yeah Steve DelBianco: staff -- would you please load the 11.3 section I drafted? Amr Elsadr: Thanks. Amr Elsadr: It's actually shorter than most WG reports. Edward Morris: Agreed. Julie Hedlund: unsynced matthew shears: I have some sympathy with Wolf-Ulrich's view that board members represent the community and that should be taken into account Edward Morris: Thanks to staff. Good approach Steve, thank you. steve metalitz: Thank you Steve! Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Thanks very much Steve! matthew shears: thanks all Amr Elsadr: Thanks Steve and all. Great work on this in a short timeframe. Farzaneh Badii: Thanks Steve for all your work Farzaneh Badii: bye Julie Hedlund: Thanks everyone! Amr Elsadr: Bye.
Thanks Steve. I have no edits to propose to the revised final report. Thank you for all your leadership in driving the Drafting Team to complete our assignment. Steve Metalitz [image001] Steven J. Metalitz | Partner, through his professional corporation T: 202.355.7902 | met@msk.com<mailto:met@msk.com> Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP | www.msk.com<http://www.msk.com/> 1818 N Street NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20036 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE DESIGNATED RECIPIENTS. THIS MESSAGE MAY BE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION, AND AS SUCH IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT AN INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, FORWARDING OR COPYING OF THIS MESSAGE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY E-MAIL OR TELEPHONE, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE AND ALL ATTACHMENTS FROM YOUR SYSTEM. THANK YOU. From: Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 3:43 PM To: Metalitz, Steven; Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks, Steve. I’ve made your requested changes in the attached “Map”. Also attached is the revised Final Report by our DT. Note that the Background and Recommendations are on page 1. On page 2 we have the “Evolution of these recommendations, including Drafting Team deliberations”. I removed names of DT members in that section. I’ll be traveling over the next 4 hours and will look for DT member reactions/edits by 12 UTC on Tuesday 11-Oct. —Steve From: Steve Metalitz <met@msk.com<mailto:met@msk.com>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:54 PM To: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org<mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org>>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org<mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: RE: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column. In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column. Steve Metalitz [image001] Steven J. Metalitz |Partner, through his professional corporation T: 202.355.7902 |met@msk.com<mailto:met@msk.com> Mitchell Silberberg & KnuppLLP|www.msk.com<http://www.msk.com/> 1818 N Street NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20036 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE DESIGNATED RECIPIENTS. THIS MESSAGE MAY BE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION, AND AS SUCH IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT AN INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, FORWARDING OR COPYING OF THIS MESSAGE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY E-MAIL OR TELEPHONE, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE AND ALL ATTACHMENTS FROM YOUR SYSTEM. THANK YOU. From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve DelBianco Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:33 PM To: Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages. Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table. Working on the revised report now… From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org<mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:30 PM To: "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording for the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team- call held on Monday 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3<http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3> The recordings and transcriptions of the calls areposted on the GNSO Master Calendar page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_calendar_&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=ZcYHF2QGlCtABZDiDObwcQHmpsb90P4iF2vFgdLqjz8&e=> Attendees: Amr Elsadr Darcy Southwell Edward Morris Farzaneh Badii Steve Delbianco Steve Metalitz Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Apologies: None ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Marika Konings Glen de Saint Géry Terri Agnew Yeşim Nazlar ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Mailing list archive: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/> DT wikispace: https://community.icann.org/x/yhCsAw<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_x_yhCsAw&d=DQMFAg&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=Ieo54FEqmqp5ajC5B6v9q461tWEDyEVcdGkTki7PbXA&s=JPXAw6D9RvnMu8tWdiLoAiQ_rBKW2_ypVhMMfcWO4ZM&e=> Thank you. Kind regards, Yeşim Adobe Chat Transcript for Monday, 10 October 2016 Yesim Nazlar: Welcome to the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Call held on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC Yesim Nazlar: Wiki Agenda Page: https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw<https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw> Terri Agnew: Wolf -Ullrich joined on telephone Terri Agnew: and now on Adobe Connect Terri Agnew: Welcome Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Hi all Edward Morris: Hi Wolf-Ulrich Marika Konings: but the provision does include "pursuant to each such organizations’ procedures" - simple majority is defined as simple majority of each house, no? matthew shears: do we have to make a recommendaiton? I think we could note the "discrepancy" in the bylaws in the report matthew shears: agree Steve Marika Konings: and I think that is how it was interpreted for the last vote on the CSC membership (simple majority of each house) Julie Hedlund: @Steve: Staff didn't add anything -- just excerpted the language from the Bylaws to show how the language is consistent in the two sections. Marika Konings: I just checked the Bylaws and Operating Procedures and there is no other definition of simple majority than simple majority of each house, so factoring in 'pursuant to each organizations procedures' doesn't that provide sufficient guidance that it relates to simple majority of each house, which as such would not require any further clarification of the Bylaws? Edward Morris: I'm fine with that Steve D. Amr Elsadr: @Marika: Good point. Agree. matthew shears: agree steve metalitz: The Operating Procedures do not repeal laws of mathematics under which a majority of GNSO Council does not equal a majority of council members. Amr Elsadr: Agree Steve. Marika Konings: My point is that it would be currently interpreted as defined as simple majority of each house as that is the only definition in existence Marika Konings: if it would need to mean different than that, it would need to be defined. Apologies if I wasn't clear. Marika Konings: for the last vote on CSC, I do believe it was interpreted as simple majority of each house, but if that was in error, it would be important to point that out. Amr Elsadr: @Steve: I understand what you're saying. Easier for the GNSO to clarify this in the OP rather than ask for the bylaws to be changed. I'm fine calling it the chicken's way out, but it is more practical and allows for flexibility. It shouldn't be confusing either. Steve DelBianco: not an error, Marika. The Council used it's Default Rule to pass a resoultion unrelated to policy. Edward Morris: Agreed Amr Elsadr: No objection. Darcy Southwell: Agreed. Edward Morris: Yes Amr Elsadr: SM is a good threshold for these two decisions, I believe. matthew shears: OK Amr Elsadr: Whoops. SM = Super Majority. :) steve metalitz: agree with supermajority on 25.2 matthew shears: agree also Amr Elsadr: Also agree with super M. on 26a. matthew shears: on 26a Farzaneh Badii: agree with super maj on 26a Amr Elsadr: I beleive that full consensus in the OP = the absence of any objecting or dissenting opinion. Amr Elsadr: But need to check. Marika Konings: From the GNSO OP: Full consensus - when no one in the group speaks against the recommendation in its last readings. This is also sometimes referred to as Unanimous Consensus steve metalitz: Just to complete the record re "simple majority," note the following from comments filed by COA on 9/12/15 on CCWG Accountability 2d Draft Proposal: And even assuming that the GNSO Council is the appropriate body to vote on, e.g.,petitioning to remove a director appointed by the Nominating Committee (p. 59), a function that seems far removed from “management of the policy development process,” each House always votes separately and votes are tallied separately; so it will need to be specified whether a “simple majority” of the Council means a “simple majority” of each of the two Houses. steve metalitz: My point is that this issue was raised to CCWG Accountability. We cannot assume that their use of "simple majority" was a mistake. Darcy Southwell: Agree on 1.3(a). Amr Elsadr: @Darcy: +1 matthew shears: agree also Darcy Southwell: Agree. Amr Elsadr: Simple majority again. Amr Elsadr: I mean for 2.3(h). Darcy Southwell: I think 2.3(h) should be majority of each house. Amr Elsadr: Shouldn't the decision to reject and resolve the issue be the same? Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I'd stay with majority Amr Elsadr: Agree with Ed, WUK and Darcy. matthew shears: + 1 Amr Elsadr: @Steve: Right. :) Farzaneh Badii: majority of each house on 2.3(h) is fine . Amr Elsadr: I prefer a simple majority, not super. Amr Elsadr: For spilling the Board. Edward Morris: correct Amr Elsadr: Correct Steve. matthew shears: I good with that asl well Marika Konings: he GNSO shall nominate by written ballot or by action at a meeting individuals to fill Seats 13 and 14 on the Board. Each of the two voting Houses of the GNSO, as described in Section 11.3(h), shall make a nomination to fill one of two Board seats, as outlined below; any such nomination must have affirmative votes compromising sixty percent (60%) of all the respective voting House members: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: So e.g. an ASO rep could not request a removal of a GNSO board member? Amr Elsadr: Yes. We're talking about directors who rep Houses within the GNSO. steve metalitz: The last sentence of 3.2 states: theApplicable DecisionalParticipant shallinform theEC Administrationas towhether theDecisional Participanthas supportfor theSO/AC DirectorRemoval Petitionof athree-quarters majorityasdetermined pursuantto theinternal proceduresof theApplicable DecisionalParticipant. steve metalitz: How do we define "three-quarters majoirty"? Amr Elsadr: @SteveDB: I don't recollect a 3/4s threshold for anything either. Amr Elsadr: An easy way to set this up would be a new threshold of 3/4s of each House would be required to vote in favor of removing the director. Amr Elsadr: This threshold does not exist, but as we noted in the first couple of weeks of this DT, we can always recommend new thresholds that do not currently exist. Amr Elsadr: Doesn't 3/4 of the House not meet the bylaw threshold? Edward Morris: I don't like it but we have the bylaws limitation Amr Elsadr: Ah. Interesting point Steve. Darcy Southwell: Ed +1 steve metalitz: 3/4 of council but recognize this coudl lead to bad results. Amr Elsadr: I would like to add my agreement to 3/4s of the House. Amr Elsadr: Please add me along with Darcy and Ed to "Single House". matthew shears: please add me also to majority of single house with Amr Ed and Darcy Farzaneh Badii: I agree to 3/4 of the single house too. Please note this in the notes. thanks matthew shears: 3/4 I meant as Farzi matthew shears: please add in notes Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I've doubts whether a single house vote could be sufficient since board members are representing the community, not a house. matthew shears: fair point Farzaneh Badii: I will be happy if you put the recommendations on the first or second page Steve and then go into details of how we came up with the recommendations. Darcy Southwell: Agree that putitng the recommendsations up front and place the explanations in the following pages steve metalitz: +1 Darcy, which supports Steve D's proposal Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Amr Elsadr: David is not on the call to indicate his position as well. It may be helpful to take the consensus of this on-list. Edward Morris: +1 Amr Edward Morris: Yes Farzaneh Badii: yeah Steve DelBianco: staff -- would you please load the 11.3 section I drafted? Amr Elsadr: Thanks. Amr Elsadr: It's actually shorter than most WG reports. Edward Morris: Agreed. Julie Hedlund: unsynced matthew shears: I have some sympathy with Wolf-Ulrich's view that board members represent the community and that should be taken into account Edward Morris: Thanks to staff. Good approach Steve, thank you. steve metalitz: Thank you Steve! Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Thanks very much Steve! matthew shears: thanks all Amr Elsadr: Thanks Steve and all. Great work on this in a short timeframe. Farzaneh Badii: Thanks Steve for all your work Farzaneh Badii: bye Julie Hedlund: Thanks everyone! Amr Elsadr: Bye.
Thanks, Steve D. You’ve done an excellent job of leading this team and turning these drafts around so timely and so accurately. Attached are a few redlined grammatical changes for consistency sake as well as a couple of notes about organization. Thanks, Darcy From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of "Metalitz, Steven" <met@msk.com> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 6:19 PM To: 'Steve DelBianco' <sdelbianco@netchoice.org>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org" <gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks Steve. I have no edits to propose to the revised final report. Thank you for all your leadership in driving the Drafting Team to complete our assignment. Steve Metalitz Steven J. Metalitz | Partner, through his professional corporation T: 202.355.7902 | met@msk.com Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP | www.msk.com 1818 N Street NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20036 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE DESIGNATED RECIPIENTS. THIS MESSAGE MAY BE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION, AND AS SUCH IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT AN INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, FORWARDING OR COPYING OF THIS MESSAGE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY E-MAIL OR TELEPHONE, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE AND ALL ATTACHMENTS FROM YOUR SYSTEM. THANK YOU. From: Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 3:43 PM To: Metalitz, Steven; Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks, Steve. I’ve made your requested changes in the attached “Map”. Also attached is the revised Final Report by our DT. Note that the Background and Recommendations are on page 1. On page 2 we have the “Evolution of these recommendations, including Drafting Team deliberations”. I removed names of DT members in that section. I’ll be traveling over the next 4 hours and will look for DT member reactions/edits by 12 UTC on Tuesday 11-Oct. —Steve From: Steve Metalitz <met@msk.com> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:54 PM To: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org" <gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: RE: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column. In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column. Steve Metalitz Steven J. Metalitz |Partner, through his professional corporation T: 202.355.7902 |met@msk.com Mitchell Silberberg & KnuppLLP|www.msk.com 1818 N Street NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20036 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE DESIGNATED RECIPIENTS. THIS MESSAGE MAY BE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION, AND AS SUCH IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT AN INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, FORWARDING OR COPYING OF THIS MESSAGE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY E-MAIL OR TELEPHONE, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE AND ALL ATTACHMENTS FROM YOUR SYSTEM. THANK YOU. From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve DelBianco Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:33 PM To: Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages. Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table. Working on the revised report now… From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:30 PM To: "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org" <gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording for the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team- call held on Monday 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3 The recordings and transcriptions of the calls areposted on the GNSO Master Calendar page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/ Attendees: Amr Elsadr Darcy Southwell Edward Morris Farzaneh Badii Steve Delbianco Steve Metalitz Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Apologies: None ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Marika Konings Glen de Saint Géry Terri Agnew Yeşim Nazlar ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Mailing list archive: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/ DT wikispace: https://community.icann.org/x/yhCsAw Thank you. Kind regards, Yeşim Adobe Chat Transcript for Monday, 10 October 2016 Yesim Nazlar: Welcome to the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Call held on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC Yesim Nazlar: Wiki Agenda Page: https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw Terri Agnew: Wolf -Ullrich joined on telephone Terri Agnew: and now on Adobe Connect Terri Agnew: Welcome Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Hi all Edward Morris: Hi Wolf-Ulrich Marika Konings: but the provision does include "pursuant to each such organizations’ procedures" - simple majority is defined as simple majority of each house, no? matthew shears: do we have to make a recommendaiton? I think we could note the "discrepancy" in the bylaws in the report matthew shears: agree Steve Marika Konings: and I think that is how it was interpreted for the last vote on the CSC membership (simple majority of each house) Julie Hedlund: @Steve: Staff didn't add anything -- just excerpted the language from the Bylaws to show how the language is consistent in the two sections. Marika Konings: I just checked the Bylaws and Operating Procedures and there is no other definition of simple majority than simple majority of each house, so factoring in 'pursuant to each organizations procedures' doesn't that provide sufficient guidance that it relates to simple majority of each house, which as such would not require any further clarification of the Bylaws? Edward Morris: I'm fine with that Steve D. Amr Elsadr: @Marika: Good point. Agree. matthew shears: agree steve metalitz: The Operating Procedures do not repeal laws of mathematics under which a majority of GNSO Council does not equal a majority of council members. Amr Elsadr: Agree Steve. Marika Konings: My point is that it would be currently interpreted as defined as simple majority of each house as that is the only definition in existence Marika Konings: if it would need to mean different than that, it would need to be defined. Apologies if I wasn't clear. Marika Konings: for the last vote on CSC, I do believe it was interpreted as simple majority of each house, but if that was in error, it would be important to point that out. Amr Elsadr: @Steve: I understand what you're saying. Easier for the GNSO to clarify this in the OP rather than ask for the bylaws to be changed. I'm fine calling it the chicken's way out, but it is more practical and allows for flexibility. It shouldn't be confusing either. Steve DelBianco: not an error, Marika. The Council used it's Default Rule to pass a resoultion unrelated to policy. Edward Morris: Agreed Amr Elsadr: No objection. Darcy Southwell: Agreed. Edward Morris: Yes Amr Elsadr: SM is a good threshold for these two decisions, I believe. matthew shears: OK Amr Elsadr: Whoops. SM = Super Majority. :) steve metalitz: agree with supermajority on 25.2 matthew shears: agree also Amr Elsadr: Also agree with super M. on 26a. matthew shears: on 26a Farzaneh Badii: agree with super maj on 26a Amr Elsadr: I beleive that full consensus in the OP = the absence of any objecting or dissenting opinion. Amr Elsadr: But need to check. Marika Konings: From the GNSO OP: Full consensus - when no one in the group speaks against the recommendation in its last readings. This is also sometimes referred to as Unanimous Consensus steve metalitz: Just to complete the record re "simple majority," note the following from comments filed by COA on 9/12/15 on CCWG Accountability 2d Draft Proposal: And even assuming that the GNSO Council is the appropriate body to vote on, e.g.,petitioning to remove a director appointed by the Nominating Committee (p. 59), a function that seems far removed from “management of the policy development process,” each House always votes separately and votes are tallied separately; so it will need to be specified whether a “simple majority” of the Council means a “simple majority” of each of the two Houses. steve metalitz: My point is that this issue was raised to CCWG Accountability. We cannot assume that their use of "simple majority" was a mistake. Darcy Southwell: Agree on 1.3(a). Amr Elsadr: @Darcy: +1 matthew shears: agree also Darcy Southwell: Agree. Amr Elsadr: Simple majority again. Amr Elsadr: I mean for 2.3(h). Darcy Southwell: I think 2.3(h) should be majority of each house. Amr Elsadr: Shouldn't the decision to reject and resolve the issue be the same? Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I'd stay with majority Amr Elsadr: Agree with Ed, WUK and Darcy. matthew shears: + 1 Amr Elsadr: @Steve: Right. :) Farzaneh Badii: majority of each house on 2.3(h) is fine . Amr Elsadr: I prefer a simple majority, not super. Amr Elsadr: For spilling the Board. Edward Morris: correct Amr Elsadr: Correct Steve. matthew shears: I good with that asl well Marika Konings: he GNSO shall nominate by written ballot or by action at a meeting individuals to fill Seats 13 and 14 on the Board. Each of the two voting Houses of the GNSO, as described in Section 11.3(h), shall make a nomination to fill one of two Board seats, as outlined below; any such nomination must have affirmative votes compromising sixty percent (60%) of all the respective voting House members: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: So e.g. an ASO rep could not request a removal of a GNSO board member? Amr Elsadr: Yes. We're talking about directors who rep Houses within the GNSO. steve metalitz: The last sentence of 3.2 states: theApplicable DecisionalParticipant shallinform theEC Administrationas towhether theDecisional Participanthas supportfor theSO/AC DirectorRemoval Petitionof athree-quarters majorityasdetermined pursuantto theinternal proceduresof theApplicable DecisionalParticipant. steve metalitz: How do we define "three-quarters majoirty"? Amr Elsadr: @SteveDB: I don't recollect a 3/4s threshold for anything either. Amr Elsadr: An easy way to set this up would be a new threshold of 3/4s of each House would be required to vote in favor of removing the director. Amr Elsadr: This threshold does not exist, but as we noted in the first couple of weeks of this DT, we can always recommend new thresholds that do not currently exist. Amr Elsadr: Doesn't 3/4 of the House not meet the bylaw threshold? Edward Morris: I don't like it but we have the bylaws limitation Amr Elsadr: Ah. Interesting point Steve. Darcy Southwell: Ed +1 steve metalitz: 3/4 of council but recognize this coudl lead to bad results. Amr Elsadr: I would like to add my agreement to 3/4s of the House. Amr Elsadr: Please add me along with Darcy and Ed to "Single House". matthew shears: please add me also to majority of single house with Amr Ed and Darcy Farzaneh Badii: I agree to 3/4 of the single house too. Please note this in the notes. thanks matthew shears: 3/4 I meant as Farzi matthew shears: please add in notes Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I've doubts whether a single house vote could be sufficient since board members are representing the community, not a house. matthew shears: fair point Farzaneh Badii: I will be happy if you put the recommendations on the first or second page Steve and then go into details of how we came up with the recommendations. Darcy Southwell: Agree that putitng the recommendsations up front and place the explanations in the following pages steve metalitz: +1 Darcy, which supports Steve D's proposal Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Amr Elsadr: David is not on the call to indicate his position as well. It may be helpful to take the consensus of this on-list. Edward Morris: +1 Amr Edward Morris: Yes Farzaneh Badii: yeah Steve DelBianco: staff -- would you please load the 11.3 section I drafted? Amr Elsadr: Thanks. Amr Elsadr: It's actually shorter than most WG reports. Edward Morris: Agreed. Julie Hedlund: unsynced matthew shears: I have some sympathy with Wolf-Ulrich's view that board members represent the community and that should be taken into account Edward Morris: Thanks to staff. Good approach Steve, thank you. steve metalitz: Thank you Steve! Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Thanks very much Steve! matthew shears: thanks all Amr Elsadr: Thanks Steve and all. Great work on this in a short timeframe. Farzaneh Badii: Thanks Steve for all your work Farzaneh Badii: bye Julie Hedlund: Thanks everyone! Amr Elsadr: Bye. _______________________________________________ Gnso-bylaws-dt mailing list Gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-bylaws-dt
Hi Steve Some suggested edits and text shifting in the attached. I am a little concerned as to the implications of this comment: /Note: Three DT members (IPC, ISPCP, and BC) abstained from indicating approval of Council voting thresholds, *as they do not support Council exercising any of the new powers by voting within the present House-bound structure*./ Are you suggesting that the GNSO cannot exercise the community powers until the issue of the House structure is addressed? Please elaborate. Thanks. Matthew On 10/10/2016 20:43, Steve DelBianco wrote:
Thanks, Steve. I’ve made your requested changes in the attached “Map”.
Also attached is the revised Final Report by our DT. Note that the Background and Recommendations are on page 1. On page 2 we have the “Evolution of these recommendations, including Drafting Team deliberations”. I removed names of DT members in that section.
I’ll be traveling over the next 4 hours and will look for DT member reactions/edits by 12 UTC on Tuesday 11-Oct.
—Steve
From: Steve Metalitz <met@msk.com <mailto:met@msk.com>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:54 PM To: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org <mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org>>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org <mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org <mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org <mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org <mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org <mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: RE: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016
Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column.
In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column.
Steve Metalitz
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Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages.
Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table.
Working on the revised report now…
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Hi, I’ve suggested some edits, and put in comments to the attached document. On page 1: "Note: Three DT members (IPC, ISPCP, and BC) abstained from indicating approval of Council voting thresholds, as they do not support Council exercising any of the new powers by voting within the present House-bound structure.” Not that I object to this, but it isn’t exactly what I recollected. I would appreciate some clarification on it. I put in a comment on this in the document. On Page 3: I’ve made some edits to the arguments against and in favor of Council exercising the new powers on behalf of the GNSO, including a sentence I’ve added to the end of the page that explains the relevance of the DT report’s description of the parts of the GNSO. On Page 4: There’s a sentence at the beginning of the page that needs to be removed. It points out the rationale of the minority view of why Council should not exercise the new powers on behalf of the GNSO, but it is redundant, as this point had already been made earlier in the report. If folks would like to leave it in, then we’ll need to also repeat the arguments in favor here, which would also be redundant. Also I moved "It was also noted by some DT members that there is no provision in the Bylaws for any group, be it Council or the GNSO stakeholder groups and constituencies, to assume these new powers and that there currently does not exist any formal procedure or institutional arrangement for the GNSO stakeholder groups and constituencies to handle these matters.” further down the page to a paragraph, where the following sentence would explain the relevance of this to the DT’s work. On Page 7: I added a sentence that further elaborates the view of why the NCAs should be involved in the Council’s work regarding exercising the new powers. Finally, looking at the 3 recommendations at the beginning of the report, they don’t seem to cover the 3/4 voting threshold required in Annex D 3.2 (a) and (f). Is this somewhere else that I’ve missed? Thanks. Amr
On Oct 11, 2016, at 1:36 PM, matthew shears <mshears@cdt.org> wrote:
Hi Steve
Some suggested edits and text shifting in the attached.
I am a little concerned as to the implications of this comment:
Note: Three DT members (IPC, ISPCP, and BC) abstained from indicating approval of Council voting thresholds, as they do not support Council exercising any of the new powers by voting within the present House-bound structure.
Are you suggesting that the GNSO cannot exercise the community powers until the issue of the House structure is addressed? Please elaborate.
Thanks.
Matthew
On 10/10/2016 20:43, Steve DelBianco wrote:
Thanks, Steve. I’ve made your requested changes in the attached “Map”.
Also attached is the revised Final Report by our DT. Note that the Background and Recommendations are on page 1. On page 2 we have the “Evolution of these recommendations, including Drafting Team deliberations”. I removed names of DT members in that section.
I’ll be traveling over the next 4 hours and will look for DT member reactions/edits by 12 UTC on Tuesday 11-Oct.
—Steve
From: Steve Metalitz <met@msk.com> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:54 PM To: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org" <gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: RE: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016
Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column.
In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column.
Steve Metalitz
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From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve DelBianco Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:33 PM To: Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016
Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages.
Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table.
Working on the revised report now…
-------------- Matthew Shears Global Internet Policy and Human Rights Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) + 44 771 2472987
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In the interest of getting us across the finish line, I won’t object to the additional edits Amr proposes. I would also ask that the reference to the June 2016 public forum on page 4 be changed to June 2014. Apologies for not catching this typo sooner. In response to Amr’s first comment, it is accurate in the case of IPC to say “they do not support Council exercising any of the new powers by voting within the present House-bound structure.” My participation in the discussion of voting thresholds within the House structure (as noted in the following sentence) was clearly subject to this caveat. Steve Metalitz From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Amr Elsadr Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 6:46 AM To: gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Hi, I’ve suggested some edits, and put in comments to the attached document. On page 1: "Note: Three DT members (IPC, ISPCP, and BC) abstained from indicating approval of Council voting thresholds, as they do not support Council exercising any of the new powers by voting within the present House-bound structure.” Not that I object to this, but it isn’t exactly what I recollected. I would appreciate some clarification on it. I put in a comment on this in the document. On Page 3: I’ve made some edits to the arguments against and in favor of Council exercising the new powers on behalf of the GNSO, including a sentence I’ve added to the end of the page that explains the relevance of the DT report’s description of the parts of the GNSO. On Page 4: There’s a sentence at the beginning of the page that needs to be removed. It points out the rationale of the minority view of why Council should not exercise the new powers on behalf of the GNSO, but it is redundant, as this point had already been made earlier in the report. If folks would like to leave it in, then we’ll need to also repeat the arguments in favor here, which would also be redundant. Also I moved "It was also noted by some DT members that there is no provision in the Bylaws for any group, be it Council or the GNSO stakeholder groups and constituencies, to assume these new powers and that there currently does not exist any formal procedure or institutional arrangement for the GNSO stakeholder groups and constituencies to handle these matters.” further down the page to a paragraph, where the following sentence would explain the relevance of this to the DT’s work. On Page 7: I added a sentence that further elaborates the view of why the NCAs should be involved in the Council’s work regarding exercising the new powers. Finally, looking at the 3 recommendations at the beginning of the report, they don’t seem to cover the 3/4 voting threshold required in Annex D 3.2 (a) and (f). Is this somewhere else that I’ve missed? Thanks. Amr
On Oct 11, 2016, at 1:36 PM, matthew shears <mshears@cdt.org<mailto:mshears@cdt.org>> wrote:
Hi Steve
Some suggested edits and text shifting in the attached.
I am a little concerned as to the implications of this comment:
Note: Three DT members (IPC, ISPCP, and BC) abstained from indicating approval of Council voting thresholds, as they do not support Council exercising any of the new powers by voting within the present House-bound structure.
Are you suggesting that the GNSO cannot exercise the community powers until the issue of the House structure is addressed? Please elaborate.
Thanks.
Matthew
On 10/10/2016 20:43, Steve DelBianco wrote:
Thanks, Steve. I’ve made your requested changes in the attached “Map”.
Also attached is the revised Final Report by our DT. Note that the Background and Recommendations are on page 1. On page 2 we have the “Evolution of these recommendations, including Drafting Team deliberations”. I removed names of DT members in that section.
I’ll be traveling over the next 4 hours and will look for DT member reactions/edits by 12 UTC on Tuesday 11-Oct.
—Steve
From: Steve Metalitz <met@msk.com<mailto:met@msk.com>> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:54 PM To: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org<mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org>>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org<mailto:yesim.nazlar@icann.org>>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>" <gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>> Subject: RE: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016
Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column.
In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column.
Steve Metalitz
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From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve DelBianco Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:33 PM To: Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org<mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016
Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages.
Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table.
Working on the revised report now…
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Hi,
On Oct 11, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Metalitz, Steven <met@msk.com> wrote:
[SNIP]
In response to Amr’s first comment, it is accurate in the case of IPC to say “they do not support Council exercising any of the new powers by voting within the present House-bound structure.” My participation in the discussion of voting thresholds within the House structure (as noted in the following sentence) was clearly subject to this caveat.
Yes, thanks Steve. That is now my recollection as well. Farzi dug up and shared a note on this from one of our earlier calls, so please disregard my first comment on Page 1. Thanks again. Amr
I redlined some additional typographical changes in the attached. I think the notes about thresholds accurately reflect our discussions. To Steve M.’s point, it seems as though we should define consensus and use it consistently, reflect majority opinions, or instead use actual voting numbers from the DT members. Darcy From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of "Metalitz, Steven" <met@msk.com> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 11:54 AM To: 'Steve DelBianco' <sdelbianco@netchoice.org>, Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org>, "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org" <gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Please correct spelling of “excerpts” on page 1, and of “Recommendation” on the far right column. In only three instances, two of them dealing with Section 6.1, the recommendations column employs the term “consensus.” In one of these instances, 3 of the 9 DT members oppose what is described as the “consensus” view (GNSO Council speaks for GNSO in all cases). In the other (support required to approve GNSO representative on EC), I believe IPC was the only constituency to oppose the view that a majority of each House is sufficient. In the third instance (section 16.1), I believe the support for the supermajority requirement on amending PTI articles of incorporation was unanimous. It is confusing to use the word “consensus” to describe three different levels of support, especially when none of the other recommendations use the word. So I suggest that “consensus” be dropped from the recommendations column. Steve Metalitz Steven J. 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From: gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve DelBianco Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:33 PM To: Yesim Nazlar; gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Thanks, all. Attached is the final table mapping. To help our GNSO colleagues print this on Letter/A4 paper, I moved staff’s “Additional Comments” into the previous column. This allowed us to reduce the doc to 29 pages. Please LMK quickly if you have any corrections to this table. Working on the revised report now… From: <gnso-bylaws-dt-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Yesim Nazlar <yesim.nazlar@icann.org> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:30 PM To: "gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org" <gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org> Cc: "gnso-secs@icann.org" <gnso-secs@icann.org> Subject: [Gnso-bylaws-dt] MP3 and Attendance - GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team - 10 October 2016 Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording for the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team- call held on Monday 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-bylaws-implementation-10oct16-en.mp3 The recordings and transcriptions of the calls areposted on the GNSO Master Calendar page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/ Attendees: Amr Elsadr Darcy Southwell Edward Morris Farzaneh Badii Steve Delbianco Steve Metalitz Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben Apologies: None ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Marika Konings Glen de Saint Géry Terri Agnew Yeşim Nazlar ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Mailing list archive: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-bylaws-dt/ DT wikispace: https://community.icann.org/x/yhCsAw Thank you. Kind regards, Yeşim Adobe Chat Transcript for Monday, 10 October 2016 Yesim Nazlar: Welcome to the GNSO Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team Call held on Monday, 10 October 2016 at 14:00 UTC Yesim Nazlar: Wiki Agenda Page: https://community.icann.org/x/0hq4Aw Terri Agnew: Wolf -Ullrich joined on telephone Terri Agnew: and now on Adobe Connect Terri Agnew: Welcome Matthew Shears Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Hi all Edward Morris: Hi Wolf-Ulrich Marika Konings: but the provision does include "pursuant to each such organizations’ procedures" - simple majority is defined as simple majority of each house, no? matthew shears: do we have to make a recommendaiton? I think we could note the "discrepancy" in the bylaws in the report matthew shears: agree Steve Marika Konings: and I think that is how it was interpreted for the last vote on the CSC membership (simple majority of each house) Julie Hedlund: @Steve: Staff didn't add anything -- just excerpted the language from the Bylaws to show how the language is consistent in the two sections. Marika Konings: I just checked the Bylaws and Operating Procedures and there is no other definition of simple majority than simple majority of each house, so factoring in 'pursuant to each organizations procedures' doesn't that provide sufficient guidance that it relates to simple majority of each house, which as such would not require any further clarification of the Bylaws? Edward Morris: I'm fine with that Steve D. Amr Elsadr: @Marika: Good point. Agree. matthew shears: agree steve metalitz: The Operating Procedures do not repeal laws of mathematics under which a majority of GNSO Council does not equal a majority of council members. Amr Elsadr: Agree Steve. Marika Konings: My point is that it would be currently interpreted as defined as simple majority of each house as that is the only definition in existence Marika Konings: if it would need to mean different than that, it would need to be defined. Apologies if I wasn't clear. Marika Konings: for the last vote on CSC, I do believe it was interpreted as simple majority of each house, but if that was in error, it would be important to point that out. Amr Elsadr: @Steve: I understand what you're saying. Easier for the GNSO to clarify this in the OP rather than ask for the bylaws to be changed. I'm fine calling it the chicken's way out, but it is more practical and allows for flexibility. It shouldn't be confusing either. Steve DelBianco: not an error, Marika. The Council used it's Default Rule to pass a resoultion unrelated to policy. Edward Morris: Agreed Amr Elsadr: No objection. Darcy Southwell: Agreed. Edward Morris: Yes Amr Elsadr: SM is a good threshold for these two decisions, I believe. matthew shears: OK Amr Elsadr: Whoops. SM = Super Majority. :) steve metalitz: agree with supermajority on 25.2 matthew shears: agree also Amr Elsadr: Also agree with super M. on 26a. matthew shears: on 26a Farzaneh Badii: agree with super maj on 26a Amr Elsadr: I beleive that full consensus in the OP = the absence of any objecting or dissenting opinion. Amr Elsadr: But need to check. Marika Konings: From the GNSO OP: Full consensus - when no one in the group speaks against the recommendation in its last readings. This is also sometimes referred to as Unanimous Consensus steve metalitz: Just to complete the record re "simple majority," note the following from comments filed by COA on 9/12/15 on CCWG Accountability 2d Draft Proposal: And even assuming that the GNSO Council is the appropriate body to vote on, e.g.,petitioning to remove a director appointed by the Nominating Committee (p. 59), a function that seems far removed from “management of the policy development process,” each House always votes separately and votes are tallied separately; so it will need to be specified whether a “simple majority” of the Council means a “simple majority” of each of the two Houses. steve metalitz: My point is that this issue was raised to CCWG Accountability. We cannot assume that their use of "simple majority" was a mistake. Darcy Southwell: Agree on 1.3(a). Amr Elsadr: @Darcy: +1 matthew shears: agree also Darcy Southwell: Agree. Amr Elsadr: Simple majority again. Amr Elsadr: I mean for 2.3(h). Darcy Southwell: I think 2.3(h) should be majority of each house. Amr Elsadr: Shouldn't the decision to reject and resolve the issue be the same? Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I'd stay with majority Amr Elsadr: Agree with Ed, WUK and Darcy. matthew shears: + 1 Amr Elsadr: @Steve: Right. :) Farzaneh Badii: majority of each house on 2.3(h) is fine . Amr Elsadr: I prefer a simple majority, not super. Amr Elsadr: For spilling the Board. Edward Morris: correct Amr Elsadr: Correct Steve. matthew shears: I good with that asl well Marika Konings: he GNSO shall nominate by written ballot or by action at a meeting individuals to fill Seats 13 and 14 on the Board. Each of the two voting Houses of the GNSO, as described in Section 11.3(h), shall make a nomination to fill one of two Board seats, as outlined below; any such nomination must have affirmative votes compromising sixty percent (60%) of all the respective voting House members: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: So e.g. an ASO rep could not request a removal of a GNSO board member? Amr Elsadr: Yes. We're talking about directors who rep Houses within the GNSO. steve metalitz: The last sentence of 3.2 states: theApplicable DecisionalParticipant shallinform theEC Administrationas towhether theDecisional Participanthas supportfor theSO/AC DirectorRemoval Petitionof athree-quarters majority asdetermined pursuantto theinternal proceduresof theApplicable DecisionalParticipant. steve metalitz: How do we define "three-quarters majoirty"? Amr Elsadr: @SteveDB: I don't recollect a 3/4s threshold for anything either. Amr Elsadr: An easy way to set this up would be a new threshold of 3/4s of each House would be required to vote in favor of removing the director. Amr Elsadr: This threshold does not exist, but as we noted in the first couple of weeks of this DT, we can always recommend new thresholds that do not currently exist. Amr Elsadr: Doesn't 3/4 of the House not meet the bylaw threshold? Edward Morris: I don't like it but we have the bylaws limitation Amr Elsadr: Ah. Interesting point Steve. Darcy Southwell: Ed +1 steve metalitz: 3/4 of council but recognize this coudl lead to bad results. Amr Elsadr: I would like to add my agreement to 3/4s of the House. Amr Elsadr: Please add me along with Darcy and Ed to "Single House". matthew shears: please add me also to majority of single house with Amr Ed and Darcy Farzaneh Badii: I agree to 3/4 of the single house too. Please note this in the notes. thanks matthew shears: 3/4 I meant as Farzi matthew shears: please add in notes Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: I've doubts whether a single house vote could be sufficient since board members are representing the community, not a house. matthew shears: fair point Farzaneh Badii: I will be happy if you put the recommendations on the first or second page Steve and then go into details of how we came up with the recommendations. Darcy Southwell: Agree that putitng the recommendsations up front and place the explanations in the following pages steve metalitz: +1 Darcy, which supports Steve D's proposal Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Amr Elsadr: David is not on the call to indicate his position as well. It may be helpful to take the consensus of this on-list. Edward Morris: +1 Amr Edward Morris: Yes Farzaneh Badii: yeah Steve DelBianco: staff -- would you please load the 11.3 section I drafted? Amr Elsadr: Thanks. Amr Elsadr: It's actually shorter than most WG reports. Edward Morris: Agreed. Julie Hedlund: unsynced matthew shears: I have some sympathy with Wolf-Ulrich's view that board members represent the community and that should be taken into account Edward Morris: Thanks to staff. Good approach Steve, thank you. steve metalitz: Thank you Steve! Edward Morris: Thanks Steve Wolf-Ulrich Knoben: Thanks very much Steve! matthew shears: thanks all Amr Elsadr: Thanks Steve and all. Great work on this in a short timeframe. Farzaneh Badii: Thanks Steve for all your work Farzaneh Badii: bye Julie Hedlund: Thanks everyone! Amr Elsadr: Bye. _______________________________________________ Gnso-bylaws-dt mailing list Gnso-bylaws-dt@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-bylaws-dt
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Yesim Nazlar