Dear SCI members, The Consensus Call ended COB Monday, 25 April. As no objections were received the proposed revisions are deemed accepted by full consensus. The next step is for the proposed revisions to be put out for Public Comment. However, as discussed during the SCI call on 21 April as there may be further revisions relating to the Chair/Vice Chair election procedures it was recommended that one Public Comment period could be held for both sets of revisions, which will reduce the amount of time required for comment. Once the Public Comment period has ended and changes, if any, are considered, the final proposed revisions will be sent to the GNSO Council for consideration along with a draft motion for approval. Kind regards, Julie Julie Hedlund, Policy Director From: <owner-gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@icann.org> Date: Monday, April 25, 2016 at 5:23 PM To: "gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" <gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org> Subject: [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] REMINDER DEADLINE EXTENDED: Consensus Call: Current Practice in Relation to Motions Dear SCI members, As agreed at the SCI meeting last week the deadline on this consensus call is extended through TODAY Monday, 25 April. As agreed on the SCI call on 07 April, the attached document, CONSENSUS CALL-GNSO Operating Procedures Proposed Revision Relating to Motions & Amendments 07 April 2016, is being circulated for a formal Consensus Call. The document is the proposed revision to the GNSO Operating Procedures to include the new text on submitting, seconding, and amending motions. Background: On 05 March 2015 the SCI submitted to the GNSO Council a Review Request (see attached) concerning the fact that there are currently no formal procedures on (i) whether, how and by whom a properly submitted motion is to be seconded, and (ii) treatment of proposed amendments to such motions as either “friendly” or “unfriendly”. The Review Request was one of two that the Council approved at its meeting on 16 April 2015. In the attached Review Request the GNSO Council asked that the SCI codify the existing customary practices of the GNSO Council and consider new processes to govern the seconding of motions and amendments to motions. On 09 October 2015 the SCI agreed on a documentation of the Current Practice Relating to Motions and sent a letter (attached) along with the original Review Request and the documentation to Jonathan Robinson, GNSO Council Chair. In December 2015 the SCI established a Sub Team A — Sara Bockey, Angie Graves, Wolf-Ulrich Knoben, and Lawrence Olawale-Roberts, and Rudi Vansnick — to review the current practice and the Sub Team submitted its recommendations to the SCI on 02 March 2016. The SCI discussed the recommendations in Marrakech on 05 March and asked staff to draft revisions to the GNSO Operating Procedures per the recommendations. On 07 April the SCI discussed the draft revisions and asked staff to submit them to the SCI for a Consensus Call. If there are no objections by Monday, 25 April (deadline extended from 21 April), the language will be presumed to be accepted by Full Consensus. Best regards, Julie Julie Hedlund, Policy Director