Dear All, Please find the MP3 recording of the Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting held on Tuesday, 05 August 2014 at 19:00 UTC. http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-sci-20140805-en.mp3 On page: <http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#oct> http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#aug (transcripts and recording are found on the calendar page) Attendees: Ronald Andruff - Commercial and Business Users Constituency - Primary - Chair Angie Graves - Commercial and Business Users Constituency - Alternate Greg Shatan - IPC - Alternate Anne Aikman Scalese - IPC - Primary Jennifer Standiford - Registrar Stakeholder Group - Primary Amr Elsadr - NCUC Alternate Avri Doria - NCSG - Primary Wolf-Ulrich Knoben - ISPCP - Primary Apologies: Thomas Rickert: NOMCOM - Alternate ICANN Staff: Julie Hedlund Mary Wong Nathalie Peregrine ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list ** Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Nathalie Adobe Chat Transcript 05 August 2014 Terri Agnew:Welcome to the SCI Working Group call on the 5th of August 2014 Ron A:Good afternoon all! Greg Shatan:Good afternoon! Ron A:Thanks for getting your comments back to the list in time for this call, Greg. Greg Shatan:My pleasure.... Amr Elsadr:Hi all. Dialling in now. Ron A:Welcome Amr. Amr Elsadr:On the call now too. :) Julie Hedlund:Hello everyone! Amr Elsadr:Hi Julie. jennifer standiford:hello Ron A:Please note all that you can scroll down on this doc yourself Anne:@Mary - are there other provisions in the Operating Procedures that relate to voting outside of meetings - e.g. for PDP approval? Mary Wong:@Anne, the absentee voting provisions can apply for PDP recs and approval Avri Doria:i do not understand that last vote. Anne:Do we need to refer to the fact that there are other sections dealing with votes outside a meeting? Avri Doria:that i understood. Amr Elsadr:Wouldn't "remote voting" also apply to votes conducted during regularly scheduled GNSO Council meetings/calls? Avri Doria:i guess i had crossed understand of which was choice was a check, and with was a cross. Anne:I am on a foreign laptop and cannot get the Adobe to mute. Therefore I had to drop off the call. Greg Shatan:@Anne -- the absentee voting section is referred to in 4.5.3.2 and in 4.5.5. Avri Doria:electronic is my preference jennifer standiford:electronic is preferred Amr Elsadr:+1 to electronic. Angie Graves:Electronic Greg Shatan:Agree on electronic Anne:What was the question form GNSO Council? Anne:Have lost audio. Ron A:@ Anne: the Note at the top of the draft was the GNSO Council request Ron A:Do you have a copy of Greg's draft? Anne:Yes - came in over the phone again. Anne Amr Elsadr:@Anne: the question from the Council was the text between quotation marks: "whether and how the Council could vote outside of a meeting and under what circumstances." Mary Wong:The 10-day Motion Waiver Deadline proposal plus this one will both go out together, in clean copy, to the full SCI for a formal Consensus Call. Nathalie Peregrine:Thomas sends his apology for today's call Avri Doria:i think starting up new work during august is probably difficult Ron A:Agreed Avri. I'm thinking Sept. Julie Hedlund:@Mary: That is correct. Yes, might be something coming from the Council. Avri Doria:Like congress in the US, we should go on summer break Julie Hedlund:Charter says: The GNSO Standing Committee on Improvement Implementation (SCI) is responsible for reviewing and assessing the effective functioning of the GNSO Procedures and Working Group guidelines. Its tasks include making recommendations: On request, for those procedures and guidelines that have been identified as presenting immediate problems On a periodic timescale for all procedures and guidelines in order to identify possible issues and/or improvements (subject to a clear definition by the SCI on which procedures and guidelines should be reviewed)The SCI is also responsible for considering requests concerning issues related to the GNSO Council processes and procedures and to Working Group guidelines that have been identified either by the GNSO Council or a group chartered by the GNSO Council as needing discussion. Mary Wong:Thank you all! Julie Hedlund:Thank you everyone! Enjoy the summer! Amr Elsadr:Thanks all. Bye. Avri Doria:thanks bye Avri Doria:\