[At-Large] Report to the ICANN Board of Directors from WG on GNSOCouncil Restructuring

[Alan Greenberg]

Dominik, I'm not sure if Cheryl is still up, so let me try to answer below.

I'm not sure when it was posted, but there is now a companion 
background paper that may also make things clear. For those who are 
not very familiar with the GNSO, it should be read  first. It can be 
found via https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?at_large_advisory_committee.


At 29/07/2008 06:00 AM, Dominik Filipp wrote:
>Cheryl,
>
>After having read the last WG output at
>
>https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/alac/attachments/at_large_advisory_
>committee:20080729041513-0-3574/files/FinalReport-GNSO-ImprovementsWG.pd
>f
>
>it seems like the proposed GNSO restructuralization could be as follows
>(Attachment A)
>
>------------------------------
>2 houses - contracted and non-contracted
>            parties/constituencies, 2 parties
>            in each house
>
>House 1 - Contracted party house consists
>           of 2 (registry and registrar) constituencies
>House 2 - Non-contracted party house consists
>           of 2 (commercial and non-commercial)
>           parties/constituencies
>
>that is, 4 parties/constituencies in both the houses collectively.

Yes. The term being used is 4 "Stakeholders Groups"



>The GNSO Council (given that the lowest proposed number of members are
>considered)
>
>House 1
>   Registries     - 3 members
>   Registrars     - 3 members
>
>House 2
>   Commercial     - 5 members
>   Non-commercial - 5 members
>
>and also
>
>Equal number of votes between registries and registrars.
>Equal number of votes between commercial and non-commercial users.
>------------------------------
>
>Do I understand the proposal correctly, Cheryl?

Yes.


>If so, there is a question I could not find an answer to.
>
>Q: What is the proposed number of votes for each of the four GNSO
>Council parties?

The number of votes per Stakeholder group is the number of members 
they have (3 or 5 in your example). All voting is within a house and 
then the percentage of Yes votes in each house is used to decide if a 
motion has passed or not. The actual number of votes in not used, 
except in certain cases where a specific percentage must be reached 
AND a second rule ensures that there is at least one vote in certain houses.

Because percentages are used instead of raw vote counts, the actual 
number of councillors does not need to be the same, and no weighting 
is needed. That is one of the results of the split-voting model.

Hope this helps, Alan


>Thanks
>
>Dominik