[NA-Discuss] RAA Amendments Package Rejected

[Alan Greenberg]

I actually posted the results (before the meeting had even ended), 
but on reading your note, I realized that I had sent it to At-Large 
STAFF instead of the At-Large list (auto-complete is convenient 
sometimes, but other times a pain in the butt).

The vote has not yet concluded, as there is the option for some 
e-mail votes. So it is not clear if it will pass or fail at the 50% 
level. I think there is a 3-day period for the remaining e-mail votes.

However, based on the vote so far (12 yes, 7 no, 4 abstain out of a 
total of 27 votes if I got it correct), the motion cannot achieve the 
66% vote required to be considered a consensus policy under the RAA 
rules.  It is unclear what the next steps are.  I would expect to 
hear something from ICANN legal counsel or Kurt Pritz in the next while.

There were some other interesting twists during the discussion that I 
will present in my GNSO Liaison report in the next day or so.

Alan

At 08/01/2009 11:14 PM, Danny Younger wrote:
>The GNSO Secretariat has posted a list of resolutions passed at 
>today's GNSO Council session.  The motion to accept the package of 
>RAA amendments was not cited, so apparently it did not pass the 
>required 2/3 threshold.
>Perhaps Alan can fill us in on the vote tally, and whatever steps 
>the Council next plans to take...
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