As you may remember, RAA amendment package that has been discussed needed to be approved by a 66% majority of the GNSO to allow the Board to put the changes in place. For a variety of reasons, when the GNSO voted on this, it did not receive a sufficient majority. There has been a discussion of various next-step motions. The following motion has just been circulated to the GNSO Council. As you will see, it is a cooperative effort of several constituencies. You will notice that a Registrant Bill of Rights, with a tight time-line, has a prominent place in this proposal, and the ALAC is explicitly included in the process. Your comments are welcome before the Wednesday morning GNSO meeting when it will be discussed, and potentially voted on. Alan
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:43:04 -0700 From: Tim Ruiz <tim@godaddy.com> Subject: [council] Revised RAA amendment/motion To: council@gnso.icann.org Cc: Mike Rodenbaugh <icann@rodenbaugh.com>
This is the revised amendment/motion drafted by a drafting team comprised of representatives from the NCUC, IPC, and RrC. We tried to address most of the concerns that have been raised. Let us know your thoughts.
Whereas, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) has not been amended since May 2001, and ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative process related to amending the RAA, including several public comment periods and consultations;
Whereas, the proposed changes to the RAA include important compliance and enforcement tools for ICANN; The Council wishes to approve the set of proposed amendments as quickly as possible so that the ICANN Board may review them, and if approved then implement them as quickly as possible; and
Whereas,
The Council would like to proceed on the drafting of a charter identifying registrant rights that registrars would be obliged to link to, as contemplated in the set of amendments;
The Council would like a specific process and timeline to move forward with additional potential amendments to the RAA; and
The Registrar Constituency is supportive of these efforts and is willing to participate on a good faith basis on anticipated next steps.
Resolved:
The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pd...
and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March 6, 2009;
Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later then July 31; and
Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss the amendments further and identify those that the community believes could be further revised through PDP processes or through additional changes to the RAA that may not fall within scope of a formal PDP process. The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later then July 31, 2009.
Tim