DMDT Adobe Connect Chat Transcript 2012-10-08

  Gisella Gruber-White:Welcome to the DMDT call on Monday 08 October 2012 at 2000 UTC
  Gisella Gruber-White:Agenda: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/oOjuBQ
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:hello, is my first time in this operations
  Yaovi Atohoun:Bonjour  a tous
  Alan Greenberg:1638, or something else since naralo call still on
  Gisella Gruber-White:3535
  Alan Greenberg:thx
  Eduardo diaz:¡Hola a todos (again)!
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:Hello everyone
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:Sorry I missed the earlier call today..
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:NP  Dev
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:it is a stand alone  Doc  that exists  Holly  it needs to be retitled and revised so an Annex
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Holly there are NO new terms  friom this  note
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:hi i am new at this
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:only a need to review  and re-title  an existing one
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:what are we talking about
  Silvia Vivanco:Cannot hear Tijani
  Eduardo diaz:Tijani sounds very faaaaaar
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:Tijani was very faint
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:and you are joining iun at the almost absolute end  @francisco  but please  feel free to contribute to discussion on any point  and  it is still a learning oportunity
  Holly Raiche:Hi CLO.  I did a separate bit of work on definitions/glossary using Alan's work - but I couldn't find it last night.  I'll have a hunt for it today
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:@francisco - this team/working group is to update part of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) bylaws  / Rules of Procedures at it relates to ALAC duties and metrics
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:@Dev Anand Teelucksingh - what does ALAC exactly do_
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:@francisco - the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is responsible for considering and providing advice on ICANN's activities as they relate to the interests of individual Internet users
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:perhaps this section 7 requires a defintion of  members "present and voting" where present and voting is defined as a member a yes or no vote
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:and thus no absentions are allowed
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:this is my first time here
  Holly Raiche:My reasoning on phrasing the requirement as a perentage being a positive vote - so either the 'yes' votes either reaches the requirement - or not.  While that implies that abstentions are no votes - all that is counted in a minimum nymber of positive votes
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:so i have no idea what i am doing here
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:@ Dev Anand Teelucksingh: can you help me
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:a 2/3rds  or Supermajority  in the Affirmative
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:ONLY in this case
  Holly Raiche:That's what I was calling for
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:agree with Cheryl
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:but that way it has parity  with other times  we use this  'majority rules'
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:@francisco - as in what is ALAC, ICANN At-Large ?
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:yes  Holly  as I said  I was for the percentages  but  NOT  to state  an abstention is a No
  Silvia Vivanco:Cannot hear Tijani
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Very hard to hear Tijani  on my line but  I think I got yhe general idea
  Olivier Crepin-Leblond:I gather that you are an observer, Francisco. This WG is re-writing the Rules of Procedure of the ALAC -- so it's pretty technical stuff & hard to understand for a newcomer. Perhaps not the best start for a newcomer. :-)
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Yes we MUST minimise risk of confusion
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:correct  Alan
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:and  10+  is reasonable
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:@ Olivier Crepin-Leblond thanks!!
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Correct  NOT for this  rule
  Holly Raiche:Suggest that what is required is a 2/3 of the ALAC casting a positive vote
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Yes  in the affirmative  2/3rds of the ALAC  eleigable to vote
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:yes with Holly, Cheryl
  Eduardo diaz:@Cheryl:  It will be a good idea to have somebody from staff or otherwise to look at the whole ROP document once  is ready for approval (but previous to approval) to normalized so the writting
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:What text  do you think  SHOULD  go there to meet this idea  Tijani
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Yes  we will do that  @ Eduardo
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:run it through the style monitors ;-)
  Olivier Crepin-Leblond:Indeed, this is something which is unlikely to happen regularly.
  Eduardo diaz:@Cheryl: I hit the send  button before finishing the sentence but you got my drift. Thanks. The docuemnt style has to be normilized since we have four teams working on it.
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:simple  typos  etc.,  will be picked up of course...  we need SUBSTANTIAL issues raised noted
  Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Yes  THANKS  all So much work has been done
  Eduardo diaz:#Alan: Thanks for leading this effort. You have done a great job like always.
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:Thank you Alan
  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:take care all
  Silvia Vivanco:Bye bye all see you in Toronto
  francisco alejandro viana canizalez:bye bye thanks