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