RE: [council] Updated Agenda for the GNSO Council Meeting 7 June 2012 at 20:00 UTC

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

All,

 

A minor rework of the text.  I trust that it is considered helpful but not
sufficiently material in nature to derail the item from remaining on the
consent agenda.

 

Best wishes,

 

 

Jonathan

 

From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Stéphane Van Gelder
Sent: 07 June 2012 11:08
To: William Drake
Cc: GNSO Council List
Subject: Re: [council] Updated Agenda for the GNSO Council Meeting 7 June
2012 at 20:00 UTC

 

*rant warning*

 

Bill, it would be nice if people just made a small effort to read the stuff
that's posted to this list!

 

After the last Council meeting, I followed-up with a note to the Council
listing the action items. One of them was this. I drafted an initial
proposal and sent it to the Council list. There was a very small number of
comments and then nothing.

 

Understanding that everyone is very busy, and not wishing for anyone to be
blindsided by this, I went to the trouble of sending a reminder to the
Council on June 4. In that reminder, I had wrote the following:

 

On the IOC/RC, I have not seen any further comments following the initial
draft message that Thomas had sent to the Council list, of which I attach a
copy to this message for reference. As such, this item will be considered as
part of our consent agenda for the June 7 meeting. I will be asking the
Council to approve me sending the note (as drafted by Thomas or as amended
during the June 7 teleconference if there are some comments made then) to
the GAC.

 

And I attached the draft once again to that email (attached here once again
for reference)!

 

I'm sure therefore that you can understand my frustration, at seeing you now
imply that the letter has not been seen before and that this has not been
discussed before. That's just the situation I was trying to avoid: us
getting to the consent agenda without having first discussed and agreed
something.

 

We are all very busy. My job as Chair is to try and move us forward on some
of the live projects we have on. Please help me do that.

 

Thanks,

Attachment: IOC RC GAC Letter draft.docx
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