[ALAC] [Fwd: Bylaw-based conflict between your position on the GNSO Council and ALAC Board Liaison overlapping - ACTION NEEDED]

[At-Large Staff]

Dear Wendy:

Thank you very much for your prompt reply. 

After consultations internally, we can confirm that there is no procedural
or Bylaw-related impediment to proceeding as you suggest. However, it will
be necessary for you to inform the GNSO Council of your situation and that,
in particular, you will not be participating in any vote the Council takes
until you take your seat after the close of the Seoul meeting. 

We've been asked to suggest to you that you also inform the NCUC of the
situation if you have not already done so, though we are not aware of an
obligation for you to do so.


-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:wendy at seltzer.com] 
Sent: 19 October 2009 14:26
To: John Jeffrey; Daniel Halloran; Nick Ashton-Hart; Diane Schroeder
Subject: [Fwd: Bylaw-based conflict between your position on the GNSO
Council and ALAC Board Liaison overlapping - ACTION NEEDED]

I will defer my start on the GNSO Council until after the conclusion of
the Seoul meeting.


--Wendy

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Bylaw-based conflict between your position on the GNSO Council
and ALAC Board Liaison overlapping - ACTION NEEDED
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:28:37 +0200
From: At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org>
Reply-To: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org>
To: <wendy at seltzer.com>
CC: <vanda at uol.com.br>, "'cheryl langdon-orr,'"
<alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Daniel Halloran
<daniel.halloran at icann.org>,	ICANN At-Large Staff
<staff at atlarge.icann.org>, Diane Schroeder	<diane.schroeder at icann.org>

Dear Wendy,

cc: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Vanda Scartezini, ALAC Members, Daniel Halloran
Esq., At-Large Secretariat

I hope this finds you well.

As you know, you have accepted a position on the incoming GNSO Council,
which will be seated on Wednesday 28th October. At the same time, your term
as ALAC Board Liaison doesn't end until 30th October.

With regret, it is my duty to inform you that the Bylaws prohibit a member
of the Board, including liaisons, from serving on any other AC or SO council
at the same time. For further information, you may consult Article VI,
s4,(2) at http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm#VI.

You will therefore need to notify the General Counsel's office of your
resignation as ALAC Board Liaison, with effect on or before the time the
GNSO Council meeting opens on Wednesday 28th October.

As a related matter, you may wish to let the members of ALAC know which
meeting you will attend, the Board or the GNSO, should Board meetings and
GNSO Council meetings conflict before your GNSO Council term begins, between
Saturday 24th October and the end of Tuesday, 27th.

---

Regards,



Nick Ashton-Hart

Director for At-Large

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-- 
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
phone: +1.914.374.0613
Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center at University of Colorado Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
https://www.torproject.org/