Excerpts from the transcript of the telephone conference:

Male: So what will happen exactly one week from today?

Bret: One week from today... Well, maybe we’ll have 70% approval before that. If not, I think we’re basically asking everyone who has not cast a vote to cast a vote between this call and Tuesday, June 5th. And if they have not cast a vote, I think that the note that we send to them is that we will consider them inactive for purposes of paragraph 15 of the Operating Principles.

Bret: As I’ve been taking notes here, the action items are, in fairly short order we’re going to take a look at the list and find out who hasn’t voted and Nick is going to send follow-up e-mail messages to them reminding them to vote and giving them instructions on how to do so, and we’re going to ask people to vote by a week from today and we’re going to tell them that if they don’t vote, we are going to consider them inactive for purposes of paragraph 15 of the Draft MoU... I mean, of the Draft Operating Principles.

Another action item is to start work on the MoU, try to take account of what we’ve seen from ICANN, what we’ve seen on the list, and what suggestions Luc has made and others may have made, and come up with a revised version or versions on the wiki for the MoU. If we approve the Operating Principles then it will be a consensus approach to determining whether we approve the MoU and we’ll try to figure out some way of humming 1:22:25 or voting or at least making our will known about how we feel about that. It would be wonderful if we can get it out by the end of next week so we could actually get people seated in Puerto Rico. I think that would be a wonderful thing to do but I’m not optimistic that we can get it done in a week, but let’s see where we are.

Is there ANY way that I can be of assistance in this “voting results lag”?  As we can see from the above, this delay is causing further delays in the discussions we need to have around the MOU.

Darlene

Darlene A. Thompson

Community Access Program Administrator

Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP

c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910

Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0

Phone:  (867) 975-6531

Fax:  (867) 979-8870

dthompson@gov.nu.ca