I think there are perhaps two amendments I would suggest to Martin's comments.

1.  Quorum as a concept should probably be more clearly applied only to voting/ultimate decision-making.  In its normal usage it also applies to when a meeting can be held based on attendance of members.
2.  I agree that operational communities have a special role, but also believe that we need to consider all communities.  Is there a way to keep the text as is and address Martin's concern in IV instead?

Joe
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From: Martin.Boyle@nominet.org.uk
To: alissa@cooperw.in, Wolf-Ulrich.Knoben@t-online.de, internal-cg@icann.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 5:08:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] consensus building

Thank you Alissa: this reflects my concerns well. I note that we did this discussion entirely by e-mail, so I can understand how Wolf-Ulrich missed it. I have a couple of other comments - all are in the marked-up draft attached and placed in drop-box. Best Martin -----Original Message----- From: internal-cg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:internal-cg-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Alissa Cooper Sent: 03 September 2014 11:29 To: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben; internal-cg@icann.org Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] consensus building Wolf-Ulrich, Thanks for your work on this. On 9/2/14, 1:19 AM, "WUKnoben" wrote: > >* “small minority”: should further be discussed. I added > the condition that a recommendation is not reached if at least one of >the ICG > communities (according to the list) as a whole is firmly and formally >opposed. > That would mean a formal written objection by the community >leadership on > behalf of their community. > I’m not sure this matches what was being discussed on the list. If we use the text Martin had suggested, I think the third bullet under section 4(b) should read: "After enough time has passed for the ICG to consider and attempt to accommodate objections, the ICG can reach a conclusion if at most a small minority disagrees and their objections have been documented. It is not expected that the representatives of an operational community significantly and directly affected by a conclusion would be overruled in this process.” Alissa _______________________________________________ Internal-cg mailing list Internal-cg@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-cg
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