Dear Jonathan,

I write to follow up on the SCI update to the GNSO that took place on Saturday, during the GNSO’s weekend sessions here in London. I wanted to make sure that the SCI’s request for clarification was sufficiently clear so as to enable the Council to provide us with the guidance we seek.

The following were the “action items” that the SCI had identified as outstanding tasks for which we are seeking Council clarification:

• The SCI may propose that E-Voting is to be permissible only in cases where a motion has already been properly submitted for a regular Council meeting but for various reasons cannot be voted on at that meeting. QUESTION FOR GNSO COUNCIL: IS THIS UNDERSTANDING CORRECT?

• The SCI notes that the Council’s original request to the SCI mentioned the need for speedy Council action as there is at present no mechanism by which the Council could vote outside a regularly scheduled Council meeting. Although it had initially proceeded on the basis/assumption that the proposed new mechanism of E-Voting was not intended to extend the time or provide an additional voting mechanism for those specific Council actions that, at present, are eligible for Absentee Voting (which takes place 72 hours after a regularly scheduled Council meeting and applies only to certain listed actions such as initiating a PDP), the SCI seeks clarification one way or the other from the Council on this point. - QUESTION FOR COUNCIL: IS THIS UNDERSTANDING CORRECT?

Thank you for your kind attention.

Kind regards,

RA

Ron Andruff

ONR Consulting, Inc.

www.ICANNSherpa.com