RE: [council] Changes to GNSO Operating Procedures

["Jonathan Robinson" <jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I am in support of Wendy's wording (with a minor tweak) as follows:

Reports and motions should be submitted to the GNSO Council for inclusion on
the agenda as soon as possible, but no later than 23:59 UTC on the day, 8
calendar days before the GNSO Council meeting.

Any concerns or objections, please raise ASAP otherwise I suggest we post
for public comment.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 18 April 2013 14:55
To: Marika Konings; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [council] Changes to GNSO Operating Procedures


On 04/18/2013 08:30 AM, Marika Konings wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Per our discussion during the wrap up session, I can confirm that the 
> Bylaws require that any changes to the GNSO Operating Procedures are 
> subject to a minimum 21 day public comment period ('The GNSO Operating 
> Procedures shall be effective upon the expiration of a twenty-one (21) 
> day public comment period, and shall be subject to Board oversight and 
> review' - see article X, section 3, item 4,
http://www.icann.org/en/about/governance/bylaws#X).
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Marika

Thanks Marika,

The current language of our Operating Procedures is: "Reports and motions
should be submitted to the GNSO Council for inclusion on the agenda as soon
as possible, but no later than 8 business days before the GNSO Council
meeting."

To provide precision and uniformity, I propose we amend it to: ..."no later
than 23:59 UTC on the day 8 calendar days before the GNSO Council meeting."

--Wendy


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