Re: [council] RE: Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting 18 November 2010 at 11:00 UTC

[William Drake <william.drake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Caroline

On Nov 15, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Caroline Greer wrote:

> We had two quality candidates and as a group, we felt unable to choose 
> between them Kristina.
>  
> It is our understanding that nothing prevents us from forwarding two names.

It's true that the drafting team for the RT endorsement process didn't specify 
modalities for replacing people; it was pretty clear that addressing multiple 
circumstances would involve additional politics and tortured verbiage.  
Nevertheless, one would think that the intention of the core principle, "Each 
stakeholder group may endorse one applicant to serve as a representative in a 
given review team" is pretty clear and applies to replacements as well.  As you 
know, neither the DT nor the Council ever discussed the possibility of SGs 
getting to put forward more names than their counterparts in any context, the 
whole point was uniformity and parity, so it's a bit hard to see the absence of 
a specific prohibition as a mandate.

Whatever….Hopefully someone will not cite this down the road as a precedent for 
endorsing multiple names at the front end etc.

Cheers,

Bill