Philip-
It is
not a good idea for the Council to continuously make up new rules as it goes
along. Doing so undermines our credibility, since we appear to the world
to be driven by momentary political influence, personalities, etc.
Having said that, we should reserve the suspension of our rules for genuinely
important situations where the rules did not foresee an
event.
In
this case, under our existing procedures, the Non-Commercial Constituency was
given a show cause notice, to which they replied. We have been
attempting to schedule a meeting of the Budget Committee to, among other
things, examine the Constituency's response to the show cause notice and we
have, in good faith, been unable to do so. I do not believe that the
Non-Commercial Constituency should bear the burden of our inability to
schedule a meeting of the Committee and I do believe that this is a fairly
important matter.
Under
these circumstances, I agree with your suggestion that we suspend the
Council's procedures in this case until the Council has had some reasonable
time to consider a report from the Budget Committee on the Non-Commercial
Constituency's response to the DNSO's show cause notice.
Roger
Cochetti
Chair
Names
Council Budget Committee
Roger J. Cochetti
Senior Vice-President & Chief Policy Officer
VeriSign
(202) 973-6600
rcochetti@verisign.com
The timetable leading to ultimate vote suspension for the
non-commercial constituency due to non-payment of fees is approaching.
The Budget Committee was scheduled April 24 to give a recommendation to the
NC on a response to the constituency's "show cause" replies.
In view of the enforced re-scheduling of that Budget
Committee meeting I propose to the NC that we agree there will be no
suspension of the non-commercial constituency's voting rights until the
Budget committee holds its next meeting and makes a recommendation to the NC
as a whole.
Please let me know if you disagree with this
proposal.
Philip Sheppard
NC
Chair