February 2010 - Bc-gnso - lists.icann.org

Message to GNSO Community Members re. GNSO Endorsement Process for 2010 AoC Accountability and Transparency RT Members
by BC Secretariat Feb. 10, 2010

Feb. 10, 2010

Message to GNSO Community Members re. GNSO Endorsement Process for 2010 AoC Accountability and Transparency RT Members Here is an update regarding the GNSO Endorsement Process for 2010 AoC Accountability and Transparency (A&T) RT Members: a. The GNSO endorsement process is under development and a draft process will be submitted to the GNSO Council on 10 February for consideration by the Council in its meeting on 18 February. The proposed process will be publicly posted on 10 February or as soon as possible thereafter. b. This process will apply only for the first AoC Review, i.e., to the 2010 A&T RT; a longer term process will be developed in the coming months for the other RTs. c. As currently proposed, that process will require AoC review team volunteers for the 2010 Accountability and Transparency Review Team (A&T RT) to submit GNSO requested information in addition to the CV and motivation letter as mentioned in the ICANN request for volunteers posted at <blocked::http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/call-for-applicants-11 jan10-en.pdf> http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/call-for-applicants-11jan10-en.p df . d. Volunteers requesting GNSO endorsement should delay submitting information via the ICANN process until after 18 February when the GNSO Council plans to finalize, approve and communicate the GNSO endorsement process. e. In the meantime, it is strongly encouraged that SGs, Constituencies and other GNSO groups encourage potential volunteers for the 2010 A&T RT to begin preparing their CVs and motivation letters so that they will only have to add the GNSO requested information after 18 February. Please feel free to forward this update. Chuck Gomes, GNSO Council Chair

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Comments from the BC Chair
by Marilyn Cade Feb. 8, 2010

Feb. 8, 2010

Thank you to the members of the BC for your participation in the election. This will be a first of occassional Chair's communications. It is intended to update you on a few items, and ask you to mark your calendars for some working sessions ahead. In general, once we are organized as an Executive Committee, we will have regular scheduled communications. This communication is intended to thank you for participating in the election, to say that I appreciate the opportunity to serve as chair, mention some key events and describe how work is progressing in the transition, and to ask for your help, as we all work together. ========================================================================= Thank you for this opportunity to serve as chair. All of the newly elected officers are already at work, as you would have expected. I have been in touch with all other newly elected officers, and we will be holding informational and transitional discussions next week, so that we can be prepared to put proposals before our membership on various items where we believe the membership should be informed and have a chance to weigh in. You may find that a bit more communications on detail in the early stages of organizing the BC's new ExeComm's work, but please bear with us. For at least through February and into March, we will, as a constituency, need to make some general decisions that will affect our work for this year. After these processes are accepted by members, I expect to have more routinized/scheduled communications processes and meetings/conference calls. I want to thank everyone who stood for election, and recognize the commitment to working on behalf of the memberships that led each candidate to make the commitment to work as hard as I expect us to, as the new Executive Committee (ExeComm) this year. According to the election analysis shared with all of us, 83% of our members voted. That is actually quite excellent turn out. All of us, as BC members, were served well by having candidates who gave thought and work to developing platforms and commitments to work for the Constituency and presented their views to the Constituency. The BC is stronger for having had these elections, and the opportunity for participation and for broadening our membership through recruitment and outreach is before us to build more geographical diversity, and to develop processes that will enable even more of our members to commit to working roles in the BC this year and in years ahead. As a sort of short update for your calendars:There will be some transitional discussions next week, followed by a full ExeComm discussion where we will be developing draft proposals to present to the Members for work programs and processes. In addition, I want to have a full Members call during the last two weeks of February -- depending on when we see an agenda from ICANN [I've checked in with ICANN staff and believe it is going to be posted 2/15]. Our call will be during the last two weeks, but as early as I can make it, so that you have preparation time before the Kenya meeting. That call will address preparation for Kenya ICANN in March, and have a short update from each of the officers. We will have one more preparatory update call before Kenya ICANN. Remote Participation/debrief on Monday and Tuesday, during ICANN meeting: During the ICANN meeting, there will be one hour debriefs for business users/ISPs/IP stakeholders TENTATIVELY scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, as well as remote participation during various meetings, supported by ICANN. As an individual, I have been organizing these special debriefs with help and advice from Sarah Deutsch and Steve Metalitz and Fred Felman with ICANN, and want to mention them to any BC members who are traveling to Kenya, and to those of you who are not. They are open sessions [to which you can invite guests] but are focused on business concerns. This is an effort to ensure communications from Kenya, since the time frame is going to be tough for participation into the meetings, and is focused on the informal sharing of insights and information with colleagues. The actual BC meeting will have remote participation as well. Attendance in Kenya:Please send an email to the Secretariat at secretariat(a)bclist.org to confirm your attendance in Kenya. Please include in your personal email to him your arrival date/time, and which hotel you are at. I would like to ask that you include your email and cell phone. That will enable us to reach you during the ICANN meeting, but that is an optional decision for you. He will compile a private list and will provide that to the officers and councilors. We sometimes set up a private email list for those attending the meeting. I am not inclined to do that for this meeting, given the number of members who are not traveling to the meeting whom we should keep in touch with. We can discuss this on the Members call. Transition Period: February We are fortunate to have Gary Hills, our Secretariat, assisting with the transition period. Gary will leave us at the end of February and his focus during the rest of February will be on transitioning the details of the operational aspects of the BC to Mikey O'Connor, Vice Chair, Operations and Finance. His work is much appreciated and his help in the transition is very important to our smooth transition. Valuing our Members:All BC members are important to the full participation and involvement of the BC in ICANN -- in its policy development in the gNSO; in broader work related to the stability and functioning of the organization itself, and in the legitimacy of the BC within ICANN. We have a lot of work to do in 2010. We need each other, and I look forward to working with you, with my fellow ExeComm members, and with new members whom I am confident we will all work together to bring into the BC. I look forward to our work together. As always, my email and telephone number are available to all of you, should you want to contact me directly. Marilyn CadeChair, Business and Commercial Users Constituency+ 1 202 251 6787marilynscade(a)hotmail.com

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FW: [council] Please forward - policy webinar save the date announcement
by Mike Rodenbaugh Feb. 6, 2010

Feb. 6, 2010

fyi Mike Rodenbaugh RODENBAUGH LAW tel/fax: +1 (415) 738-8087 http://rodenbaugh.com <http://rodenbaugh.com/> From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Glen de Saint Géry Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:09 AM To: Council GNSO Subject: [council] Please forward - policy webinar save the date announcement ================ Save the Date: Pre-Meeting Policy Briefing to get you up to speed Whether you plan to participate in the upcoming Nairobi meeting remotely or in person, youre invited to a quick reminder of the background and current status of each major policy issue currently under discussion in ICANN. The Policy Staff will provide a briefing on Thursday, 25 February, summarizing policy issues across the different ICANN Supporting Organizations. Attendees of the previous Policy Update session, held just before Seoul, reported that the session helped them crystallize their thinking on important issues and made them feel more fully informed as they participated in the international meetings. The Policy Staff will provide the upcoming briefing online at two times, to accommodate various timezones. Plan to join us for either of these duplicate sessions: 13.00 UTC (2200pm Seoul, 0000 Sydney, 0500am Marina del Rey, 0800 Washington, D.C.) or 19.00 UTC (0400 Seoul, 0600 Sydney, 1100 Marina del Rey, 1400 Washington, D.C. Full details will be sent later, including how to register in order to receive the Adobe Connect link and dial-in numbers. But for now, save the date!

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Anzaja: resignation
by Liz Williams Feb. 5, 2010

Feb. 5, 2010

Dear colleagues There is little point in being part of an organisation so dominated by US based interests. There is nought to congratulate ourselves about being so clearly dominated by one particular group when there are such broader issues at stake. We have failed substantially to meet our charter obligations and the new executive committee will have a large task on its hands to ensure a fresh and innovative approach to representing business interests across the board. I have asked Gary to remove me from BC membership with immediate effect. Liz

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Executive Committee Elections
by BC Secretariat Feb. 5, 2010

Feb. 5, 2010

Dear Members Voting for the Executive Committee elections closed at midnight yesterday. I can announce that the candidates received the following weighted votes. CHAIR Marilyn Cade 34 votes Phil Lodico 33 votes CSG REPRESENTATIVE Sarah Deutsch 38 votes Liz Williams 31 votes 32 members voted for Chair representing a 76% turnout 32 members voted for CSG representing a 76% turnout A total of 35 members returned ballots representing a 83% turnout. Many thanks to all candidates and to those members who voted in the election. Gary Hills

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Resend: Voting final reminder
by BC Secretariat Feb. 4, 2010

Feb. 4, 2010

My earlier mail hasn't appeared in the archive, so this is a resend. Please see below Best wishes Gary _____ From: BC Secretariat Sent: 04 February 2010 13:44 To: bc-gnso(a)icann.org Subject: [bc-gnso] Voting final reminder Dear Members A final reminder that voting for the Exective Committee elections ends at midnight in your time zone today, Thursday 4 February. Please ensure that your votes reach me before then. Votes received after this time cannot be counted. Many thanks to those members who have already voted. Best wishes Gary

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Voting final reminder
by BC Secretariat Feb. 4, 2010

Feb. 4, 2010

Dear Members A final reminder that voting for the Exective Committee elections ends at midnight in your time zone today, Thursday 4 February. Please ensure that your votes reach me before then. Votes received after this time cannot be counted. Many thanks to those members who have already voted. Best wishes Gary

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Executive Committee Elections - Chair and CSG
by BC Secretariat Feb. 3, 2010

Feb. 3, 2010

Dear Members A reminder that voting for the the Executive Committee elections closes at midnight tomorrow, Thursday 4 February. Please let me know if you would like me to send you another ballot form. Best wishes Gary

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FW: PDP re Vertical Integration of Registrars & Registries
by Mike Rodenbaugh Feb. 2, 2010

Feb. 2, 2010

The GNSO Council has voted to move forward with a PDP on vertical integration. The Resolution is below. I introduced the original motion, which had been drafted by Margie Milam of Staff. The text voted upon was written by Mary Wong, and was accepted by me as a friendly amendment on the last day. This is consistent with the BC's position on this issue. It is hoped that Staff will agree with our position, that the 'status quo' should remain as in the com/net/org contracts for the new TLD registry contracts, unless and until policy is developed by the Council and adopted by the Board - rather than imposed by Staff. If so, then policy could develop to loosen the restrictions later, or keep them the same. If they loosen the restrictions now, and later policy is developed or desired which would tighten them, then it seemingly would be very difficult to implement. That would be bad precedent, and we won't know for years whether it is bad policy. Notably, the entire Contracted Party House voted against a PDP. I understand that many are happy with the Staff recommendation for newTLDs, and many fear delay to the new TLD program. In our house, the vote was 11-2 in favor. The motion passed because it had more than 66% of votes in our House in favor. (The ISPs were the two votes against.) Because of absentee voting, the vote has just become final. I need to post by the 9th the names of any volunteers to the drafting team that will draft the WG charter. Please send me your name if you're interested. If no other volunteers, then I can work on the charter drafting team, but we really need other volunteers to participate actively in the Working Group that will be chartered to complete its work within sixteen weeks. So, please help if you can. Thanks! -*- Whereas, on 24 September 2009, the GNSO Council requested ICANN Staff to prepare an Issues Report on the topic of vertical integration between registries and registrars; Whereas, on 11 December 2009, the Issues Report on vertical integration between registries and registrars was delivered to the GNSO Council; Whereas, the Issues Report includes recommendations that the GNSO Council delay the initiation of a Policy Development Process (PDP) on the issue for a period of 1-2 years; Whereas, notwithstanding the recommendations in the Issues Report, the GNSO Council has decided to initiate a PDP on vertical integration between registries and registrars; and Whereas, the GNSO Council has decided against initiating a Task Force as defined in the ICANN Bylaws; Now therefore, be it: RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council has reviewed the recommendations contained in the Issues Report, and nonetheless approves the initiation of a PDP on the topic of vertical integration between registries and registrars; FURTHER RESOLVED, that the PDP shall evaluate which policy recommendations, if any, should be developed on the topic of vertical integration between registrars and registries affecting both new gTLDs and existing gTLDs, as may be possible under existing contracts and as allowed under the ICANN Bylaws; FURTHER RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council shall convene a Working Group to fulfill the requirements of the PDP, including a review of ICANN Staff's prior work with respect to vertical integration, and develop recommendations accordingly; and FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Working Group shall deliver its Final Report to the GNSO Council no later than sixteen weeks from the date of this resolution. Mike Rodenbaugh RODENBAUGH LAW tel/fax: +1 (415) 738-8087 http://rodenbaugh.com <http://rodenbaugh.com/>

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ICANN call re Nairobi meeting security
by Marilyn Cade Feb. 1, 2010

Feb. 1, 2010

Just finally found details re one of two calls ICANN is doing re security in Kenya. 3 pm EST. 1 800 550 6865 or 1 213 233 3193/access code 3856 I am personally interested. You may be as well. Marilyn Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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