Thank you Mathieu. To put everything in one place, here is the proposal with my friendly amendment: The advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee on public policy matters shall be duly taken into account, both in the formulation and adoption of policies. In the event that the ICANN Board determines to take an action that is not consistent with the Governmental Advisory Committee advice, it shall so inform the Committee and state the reasons why it decided not to follow that advice. Any GAC advice approved by a GAC consensus, understood to mean the practice of adopting decisions by general agreement in the absence of any formal objection, may only be rejected by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the Board. Any advice approved by the GAC with objections from a very small minority of GAC members, but falling short of consensus, may be rejected by a majority vote of the Board. If the Board rejects GAC consensus advice, the Governmental Advisory Committee and the ICANN Board will try, in good faith and in a timely and efficient manner, to find a mutually acceptable solution. Governmental Advisory Committee should ensure that their advice to the Board is clear. The reason for this is that the Board should not be put in the position of negotiating between various GAC members. It should be up to the GAC to present a consensus position before the Board should be required to try, in good faith and in a timely and efficient manner, to find a mutually acceptable solution. Best, Brett ________________________________ ________________________________ Brett Schaefer Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-608-6097 heritage.org<http://heritage.org/> From: s18-bounces@icann.org [mailto:s18-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Weill Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 9:53 AM To: Finn Petersen; s18@icann.org Subject: Re: [S18] Document for ST18 call Nov 20 Many thanks for your proposal Finn. And thanks to all contributors of today’s call, which was very useful in clarifying each party’s conditions and perspectives. As discussed during the call, we encourage consideration of the proposal below, as well as suggested amendments, tobe provided before our next, and last, call on Monday 14 UTC. Invites will be sent out shortly. Monday’s call outcome will be a decision about which option(s) to report to the CCWG. The CCWG will then have to decide which option to include as part of its Draft Report. Best regards, Mathieu Weill De : Finn Petersen [mailto:FinPet@erst.dk] Envoyé : vendredi 20 novembre 2015 14:52 À : 'Mathieu Weill'; s18@icann.org<mailto:s18@icann.org> Objet : SV: Document for ST18 call Nov 20 Building on Bretts suggestion, here is a proposal DK II, as a compromis “The advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee on public policy matters shall be duly taken into account, both in the formulation and adoption of policies. In the event that the ICANN Board determines to take an action that is not consistent with the Governmental Advisory Committee advice, it shall so inform the Committee and state the reasons why it decided not to follow that advice. Any GAC advice approved by a GAC consensus, understood to mean the practice of adopting decisions by general agreement in the absence of any formal objection, may only be rejected by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the Board. Any advice approved by the GAC with objections from a very small minority of GAC members, but falling short of consensus, may be rejected by a majority vote of the Board. In both instances, the Governmental Advisory Committee and the ICANN Board will try, in good faith and in a timely and efficient manner, to find a mutually acceptable solution. Governmental Advisory Committee should ensure that their advice to the Board is clear.” Best, Finn Fra: s18-bounces@icann.org<mailto:s18-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:s18-bounces@icann.org] På vegne af Mathieu Weill Sendt: 20. november 2015 11:47 Til: s18@icann.org<mailto:s18@icann.org> Emne: [S18] Document for ST18 call Nov 20 Dear Colleagues, During our last call we had discussed elaborating on the Denmark proposal. Since then, there has been significant exchange on the list, with interesting new arguments being developed. To facilitate today’s call at 13UTC (planned for 90 minutes this time) you will find attached a document that focuses on proposed edits we have received on the Denmark proposal, as well as, on page 2 a short table summarizing the different options regarding the “staggered Board decision threshold” approaches. We look forward to a fruitful call. -- ***************************** Mathieu WEILL AFNIC - directeur général Tél: +33 1 39 30 83 06 mathieu.weill@afnic.fr<mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr> Twitter : @mathieuweill *****************************