[council] initial memo on propsed proxy voting change

["Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@xxxxxx>]

Happy New Year fellow Council members;

The staff recommendations in the note on proxy voting seem sound and consistent 
with former
Names Council practice when we engaged in proxy voting - whether we were 
supposed to or not.
On the item c - participation, I believe current practice whereby we have often 
extensively
talked over an issue before a vote, covers this point.
All we need now is to set out the recommendations into a short set of rules and 
add in a few
practicalities such as open proxy and a proxy with direction to vote in a 
certain way, and
we are done.

I hope we can move forward on this with due haste.
Philip