RE: [council] Motion deadline per operating procedures

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

 

My guess is,  if we took a survey of Councilors, many would not interpret days 
so literally as you do and I suspect that the GCOT didn’t mean it that 
literally either.  But I will point out that Glen sent a message reminding 
Councilors of the 8-day advance requirement and noted that motions were due by 
30 November.  Glen did that at my request and as you can tell, I have never 
interpreted the requirement as 192 hours.  If it means 192 hours, then I 
suspect that we have missed the deadline many times in the past.

 

Regardless, I still maintain that we should spend our time focusing on the 
issues not the process, especially when we are talking about something where we 
clearly had different understandings regarding the deadline.

 

Chuck

 

From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Tim Ruiz
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:00 PM
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [council] Motion deadline per operating procedures

 

The relevant paragraph in section 3.3 of our operating procedures
clearly states that motions must be submitted "...no later than 8 days
before the GNSO Council meeting." Given that our meeting is scheduled to
begin at 1900 UTC on the 8th, neither of the motions submitted yesterday
by Mary and Kristina met the deadline of 1900 UTC the 30th.

Again, given that ICANN involves one or more days of travel for many of
us, and that any 8 day period also includes at least one weekend, I
think it is crucial that motions are submitted as soon as possible and
the deadline should be strictly observed.

Tim