Dear All, The next Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting will be held on Tuesday 3 September 2013 at 1900 UTC. Please find the MP3 recording of the Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting held on Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 19:00UTC. http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-sci-20130806-en.mp3 On page: http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#<http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#oct>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 Mikey O’Connor – ISPCP – Alternate Anne Aikman-Scalese – IPC Primary Avri Doria – Non Commercial SG – Primary – Vice-Chair Edward Morris - NCUC– Primary Nuno Garcia – NCUC - Alternate Ken Bour – guest speaker Apologies: Jennifer Wolfe – NCA primary Amr Elsadr – NCUC Alternate James Bladel – Registrar Stakeholder Group – Primary ICANN Staff: Marika Konings Julie Hedlund Julia Charvolen ** 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, Julia Charvolen For GNSO Secretariat Adobe Connect chat transcript 6 August 2013: Marika Konings:Some WGs have been suffering from holiday fatigue Julie Hedlund:Please see the latest Self Assessment Survey at: http://www.questionpro.com/a/editSurvey.do?surveyID=3582146 Ken Bour:http://scitestwg.questionpro.com<http://scitestwg.questionpro.com/> Julia Charvolen:Please mute your microphones for the echo if you are not speaking Avri Doria:Needs to include NCSG,s not all NCSG are either in NCUC or npoc NC Marika Konings:I am watching ;-) Ken Bour:Thanks, Avri Avri Doria:Just did it.it its ready for wider testing. Ken Bour:I will drop off and start work on the memo. Ron A:Thank you, Ken! Mike O'Connor:James Bladel sends regrets for the call today Julia Charvolen:Thank you Mikey , noted! Marika Konings:The PDP Manual is part of the GNSO Operating Procedures Marika Konings:Like the GNSO Working Group Guidelines Marika Konings:They should be consistent - a lot of work went into those ;-) Marika Konings:@Avri - are you suggesting that supermajority would apply for any changes to the operating procedures? Avri Doria:Currently I think just majority its required for OP procedure changes. Avri Doria:So, buy a majority we could downgrade a superiority condition Marika Konings:yes, simple majority currently applies Marika Konings:@Avri - sorry I misunderstood you. It may be helpful to work your example out as a use case? That may help inform the WG deliberations. Marika Konings:SCI /Council deliberations I mean