Below is a link to the audio of today's GNSO Council Meeting.  It was a (rare) great discussion on the harmful implications to ICANN's community-led bottom-up policy development process if the ICANN Board adopts the decision of the Board Governance Committee (really lawyers at Jones Day) that said that ICANN staff may over-rule the GNSO Council at its own discretion.   The decision is huge power grab by ICANN staff and lawyers to take policy development out of the hands of the community and put it in the hands of an unaccountable staff with no checks to curb abuse.  During the meeting Jeff Neuman, NCSG's GNSO Councilors, and several other councilors raised concerns about the terrible repercussions if this decision is allowed to set a precedent as intended.   Although IPC's Councilor got emotional and had difficulty grasping the concepts being discussed.  Its well worth a listen.

Here's a link to just the part of the council discussion on the BGC decision on NCSG's Recon Request: 
  http://tinyurl.com/m8q7k58

Best,
Robin


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> From: Glen de Saint Géry <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [liaison6c] MP3 recording and Adobe chat transcript GNSO Council teleconference, Thursday, 13 June 2013
> Date: June 13, 2013 10:20:27 AM PDT
> To: liaison6c <[log in to unmask]>
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>  
> Dear All,
>  
> Please find the MP3 recording of the GNSO Council teleconference, held on Thursday, 13 June 2013 at:
> http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-20130613-en.mp3
>  
> on page
> http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#jun
>  
> The Adobe Connect chat transcript may be viewed on page:
> http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#jun
> http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-13jun13-en.pdf
>  
> Kind regards,
> Glen
>  
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat
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> http://gnso.icann.org
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