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Summary for New gTLDs Workshop at ICANN LA Meeting
by Denise Michel Nov. 22, 2007

Nov. 22, 2007

Attached is a summary of the GNSO's Final Report on the Introduction of New Top-Level Domains for GNSO participants' consideration and use at the GNSO's New gTLD Workshop in Los Angeles on Monday, 29 October, 13:00 - 19:00. This document summarizes the recommendations contained in the Report and notes other work under way to facilitate the introduction of new gTLDs in an orderly and transparent way. Where particularly applicable, it also attempts to briefly provide information about various issues considered by the GNSO Committee and the rationale behind the final wording of principles, recommendations and implementation guidelines. (The Report, which was approved by the GNSO Council last month and is being sent to ICANN's Board for consideration, can be found at <http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm>). This document is meant to provide a concise and easy to read summary of the key elements of the Report, and is organized to correspond with the Workshop sessions. GNSO constituency members are encouraged to consider the summary, and the Report, and submit questions in advance that they would like the Workshop panelists to address on the 29th. *Questions should be emailed to <new-gtlds-workshop(a)icann.org> or submitted via the on line comment form found on the Workshop web page at <http://losangeles2007.icann.org/node/45>.* Questions will be publicly posted and provided to the Workshop moderator and panelists. As previously noted, GNSO constituencies are encouraged to attend the special, interactive workshop at ICANN's Los Angeles meeting focused on the GNSO Council's final report on the introduction of new gTLDs. The workshop will feature extensive opportunities for audience comments and questions and Council responses. We look forward to seeing you in LA. Regards, Denise Michel Vice President, Policy Development denise.michel(a)icann.org

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GNSO Council resolutions 31 October 2007
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

Dear Council Members, Ahead of the complete minutes, please find the resolutions that were passed by the GNSO Council Open Meeting in LA on Wednesday 31 October 2007. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen -------------------------------------------------------------- GNSO Council Open Meeting in LA agenda http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-31oct07.shtml also see: http://losangeles2007.icann.org/node/61 Resolution 1 Whereas, the Council has previously requested and received both the 15 June 2007 "GNSO Issues Report on Dispute Handling for IGO Names and Abbreviations" http://gnso.icann.org/issues/igo-names/issues-report-igo-drp-15jun07.pdf and the 28 September 2007 "Staff Report on Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure;" http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-igo-drp-report-v2-28sep07.pdf and Whereas, the Council believes that further work on the draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure is appropriate before voting on whether to initiate a policy development process on this issue; and Whereas, the Intellectual Property Constituency is willing to lead a small ad hoc group to review and consider a proposed draft dispute resolution procedure, Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Council authorizes the creation of a small ad hoc group of interested informed and representative stakeholders and members of the GAC to review, consider and propose as appropriate revisions to the Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure set forth in the Staff Report, and instructs the ad hoc group to report to the Council with its recommendations not later than 15 February 2008. Resolution 2. Whereas the issues report on Domain Tasting http://gnso.icann.org/issues/domain-tasting/gnso-domain-tasting-report-14ju… has been released and discussed and Whereas, the GNSO Council acknowledges the Final Outcomes Report of the ad hoc group on Domain Tasting, http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-domain-tasting-adhoc-outcomes-report-fina… the Council hereby initiates a Policy Development Process, and pursuant to Sections 4 and 8 of Annex A of the Bylaws, The GNSO council resolves to initiate a PDP to address the issues set forth in the Issues Report by Staff and in the Outcomes Report of the ad hoc group and encourages staff to apply ICANN's fee collections to names registered and subsequently deregistered during the add-grace period. Resolution 3. Whereas, the GNSO Council has resolved to initiate a Policy Development Process on Domain Tasting, and pursuant to Sections 4 and 8 of Annex A of the Bylaws, resolves as follows: 1. To request that each constituency appoint a representative to solicit the constituency's views on the issues presented in the Issues Report by Staff and in the Outcomes Report of the ad hoc group. Each such representative is asked to submit a Constituency Statement to the ICANN staff manager within thirty-five (35) calendar days of this resolution. 2. To request that ICANN Staff take all Constituency Statements, the two prior reports, and other information and compile (and post on the Comment Site) an Initial Report within fifty (50) calendar days of this resolution. 3. Thereafter, the PDP shall follow the provisions of Item 9 of Annex A of the Bylaws, in creating a Final Report for Council. Resolution 4. WHEREAS; 1. The GNSO Council has recently received the Whois Working Group final report http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-whois-wg-report-final-1-9.pdf and; 2. The GNSO Council acknowledges that the broad range of stakeholders with interests in this issue has lead to a wide range of views of what the policy issues are and how to best address those policy issues with solutions that can be supported by the consensus of the community, and; 3. The GNSO Council observes that the Working Group failed to reach agreement on several of the key issues identified in the charter of the Working Group, http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-wg/whois-working-group-cha… and; 4. That broadly, the scope of the issues in this area have evolved substantially over the term of this Policy Development Process since it was originally chartered, and; 5. A comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key factual issues regarding the gTLD Whois system will benefit future GNSO policy development efforts, and; 6. The rights and requirements of natural persons, the legal and business communities, anti-crime and law enforcement and registrars in the areas of privacy, access, enforcement, investigation, consumer protection and research would benefit from future policy development by the GNSO. THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the GNSO Council; 1. Sincerely thanks all of the volunteers, advisors, consultants, staff, stakeholders, observers and constituency participants who have contributed to the GNSO's examination of Whois policy over the last four years, and; 2. Formally ends the Policy Development Process on gTLD Whois without making any recommendations for specific policy changes to ICANN’s Board of Directors, and; 3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development including, but not limited to, ensuring appropriate privacy safeguards for natural persons, lawful access to data for rights enforcement, consumer protection, law enforcement and anti-crime purposes and will immediately initiate the following sequential actions: 1) Council shall provide additional definition regarding the potential data gathering and study requirements 2) staff shall provide the Council with rough cost estimates for various components of data gathering and studies no later than February 15th, 2008;; 3) the Council will decide what data gathering and studies would be pursued; and 4) staff will perform the resulting data gathering and studies and report the results back to the Council . 4. May initiate policy development activities in this area, as supported by the findings of the data-gathering and study activities upon their completion. Resolution 5 Whereas Dr Liz Williams, as Senior Policy Counselor for ICANN, has been the ICANN Staff Manager assigned to support the GNSO's Policy Development Process (PDP) on new gTLDs, since December 2005. Whereas this PDP trialled a number of new approaches in GNSO policy development, including the use of inter-sessional face-to-face meetings, calls for formal papers with the ability for the authors to present those papers and have dialog with the committee, and the use of working groups to analyse topics such as IDNs, reserved names, and protecting the rights of others. The success of the working groups became the foundation of the Board Governance Committee's GNSO Review Working Group recommendations on using working groups as the main approach for policy development. Whereas Liz worked tirelessly to secure support for many of these initiatives, and pull together a huge amount of public input, meeting transcripts, and GNSO constituency contributions into a final set of principles, recommendations, and guidelines, along with a large range of supporting material that will assist the ICANN staff in implementing the policy. Whereas Liz completed the final report on the policy for new gTLDs in August 2007, finished her term of office with ICANN in September 2007. It is resolved that the GNSO expresses its sincere gratitude for her service to the ICANN community and wishes her every success in her next endeavours. -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Text regarding Council Report to the Board on WHOIS
by Bruce Tonkin Oct. 31, 2007

Oct. 31, 2007

Hello All, Just to provide a reference: From: http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#AnnexA "If a Supermajority Vote was not reached, a clear statement of all positions held by Council members. Each statement should clearly indicate (i) the reasons underlying each position and (ii) the constituency(ies) that held the position;" Council members or constituencies should provide any statements to the staff so that they can complete the "Board Report". Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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Possible wording for resolve #3
by Gomes, Chuck Oct. 31, 2007

Oct. 31, 2007

3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development [including, but not limited to, ensuring appropriate privacy safeguards for natural persons, appropriate access to data for rights enforcement, consumer protection, law enforcement and anti-crime purposes] and will immediately initiate the following sequential actions: 1) Council shall provide additional definition regarding the potential data gathering and study requirements; 2) staff shall provide the Council with rough cost estimates for various components of data gathering and studies; 3) the Council will decide what data gathering and studies would be pursued; and 4) staff will perform the resulting data gathering and studies and report the results back to the Council. Chuck Gomes "This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized use, distribution, or disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify sender immediately and destroy/delete the original transmission."

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FW: [council] Proposed Amendment to Motion #2
by Rosette, Kristina Oct. 31, 2007

Oct. 31, 2007

All, I would like to amend my amendment to read "legal and business communities", which more accurately reflects my intended meaning. Kristina -----Original Message----- From: Rosette, Kristina Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:30 AM To: 'Ross Rader'; GNSO Council Subject: RE: [council] Proposed Amendment to Motion #2 All, Subject to one minor amendment, I am happy too accept Rross's proposal as a friendly amendment. The minor amendment is to include the phrase "legal community" in clause 6 after "anti-crime". Kristina -----Original Message----- From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Ross Rader Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:56 AM To: GNSO Council Subject: [council] Proposed Amendment to Motion #2 Kristina, fellow councillors; After consultation with the registrar community, I would like to offer the following language as an amendment to motion #2 on Whois. The purpose of these amendments is two-fold; a) to conclude the policy development work of the GNSO on the issue of Whois until such time that we have identified specific issues that we can break down into discrete policy development activities. I do not believe that we attempt again a broad reform of Whois but rather, focus on smaller, narrower sets of issues in the field that we can deal with in short periods of time while still achieving meaningful results, and; b) to focus the study work required to line up against specific policy areas where we need further information in order to understand the scope of issues or work required. A broad study of Whois will probably be as effective and useful as a broad PDP on Whois. However, narrower more focused study - or several of them even - will likely bring us much closer to understanding the issues we need to properly consider our policy work. If anyone has any questions regarding these amendments, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this amendment. --- WHEREAS; 1. The GNSO Council has recently received the Whois Working Group final report and; 2. The GNSO Council acknowledges that the broad range of stakeholders with interests in this issue has lead to a wide range of views of what the policy issues are and how to best address those policy issues with solutions that can be supported by the consensus of the community, and; 3. The GNSO Council observes that the Working Group failed to reach agreement on several of the key issues identified in the charter of the Working Group, and; 4. That broadly, the scope of the issues in this area have evolved substantially over the term of this Policy Development Process since it was originally chartered, and; 5. A comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key factual issues regarding the gTLD Whois system will benefit future GNSO policy development efforts, and; 6. The rights and requirements of natural persons, anti-crime and law enforcement, registries and registrars in the areas of privacy, access, enforcement, investigation, consumer protection and research would benefit from future policy development by the GNSO. THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the GNSO Council; 1. Sincerely thanks all of the volunteers, advisors, consultants, staff, stakeholders, observers and constituency participants who have contributed to the GNSO's examination of Whois policy over the last four years, and; 2. Formally ends the Policy Development Process on gTLD Whois without making any recommendations for specific policy changes to ICANN's Board of Directors, and; 3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development in several key areas and will immediately undertake to identify what specific policy development work is required and create a data-gathering and study plan to support this policy development no later than February 15th, 2008. 4. May initiate policy development activities in this area, as supported by the findings of the data-gathering and study activities upon their completion. --- Thank you in advance for considering these amendments. Ross Rader Director, Retail Services t. 416.538.5492 c. 416.828.8783 http://www.domaindirect.com "To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow." - Erik Nupponen

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Proposed Motion
by Rosette, Kristina Oct. 31, 2007

Oct. 31, 2007

All, I propose the motion set forth below: Whereas, the Council has previously requested and received both the 15 June 2007 "GNSO Issues Report on Dispute Handling for IGO Names and Abbreviations" and the 28 September 2007 "Staff Report on Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure"; and Whereas, the Council believes that further work on the draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Procedure Resolution Procedure is appropriate before voting on whether to initiate a policy development process on this issue; and Whereas, the Intellectual Property Constituency is willing to create and lead a small ad hoc group to review and consider a proposed draft dispute resolution procedure, Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Council authorizes the IPC to create a small ad hoc group of interested informed stakeholders and members of the GAC to review and consider the Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure set forth in the Staff Report, and instructs the ad hoc group to report to the Council with its recommendations not later than 15 February 2008. Kristina

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Proposed Amendment to Motion #2
by Ross Rader Oct. 31, 2007

Oct. 31, 2007

Kristina, fellow councillors; After consultation with the registrar community, I would like to offer the following language as an amendment to motion #2 on Whois. The purpose of these amendments is two-fold; a) to conclude the policy development work of the GNSO on the issue of Whois until such time that we have identified specific issues that we can break down into discrete policy development activities. I do not believe that we attempt again a broad reform of Whois but rather, focus on smaller, narrower sets of issues in the field that we can deal with in short periods of time while still achieving meaningful results, and; b) to focus the study work required to line up against specific policy areas where we need further information in order to understand the scope of issues or work required. A broad study of Whois will probably be as effective and useful as a broad PDP on Whois. However, narrower more focused study - or several of them even - will likely bring us much closer to understanding the issues we need to properly consider our policy work. If anyone has any questions regarding these amendments, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this amendment. --- WHEREAS; 1. The GNSO Council has recently received the Whois Working Group final report and; 2. The GNSO Council acknowledges that the broad range of stakeholders with interests in this issue has lead to a wide range of views of what the policy issues are and how to best address those policy issues with solutions that can be supported by the consensus of the community, and; 3. The GNSO Council observes that the Working Group failed to reach agreement on several of the key issues identified in the charter of the Working Group, and; 4. That broadly, the scope of the issues in this area have evolved substantially over the term of this Policy Development Process since it was originally chartered, and; 5. A comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key factual issues regarding the gTLD Whois system will benefit future GNSO policy development efforts, and; 6. The rights and requirements of natural persons, anti-crime and law enforcement, registries and registrars in the areas of privacy, access, enforcement, investigation, consumer protection and research would benefit from future policy development by the GNSO. THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the GNSO Council; 1. Sincerely thanks all of the volunteers, advisors, consultants, staff, stakeholders, observers and constituency participants who have contributed to the GNSO's examination of Whois policy over the last four years, and; 2. Formally ends the Policy Development Process on gTLD Whois without making any recommendations for specific policy changes to ICANN’s Board of Directors, and; 3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development in several key areas and will immediately undertake to identify what specific policy development work is required and create a data-gathering and study plan to support this policy development no later than February 15th, 2008. 4. May initiate policy development activities in this area, as supported by the findings of the data-gathering and study activities upon their completion. --- Thank you in advance for considering these amendments. Ross Rader Director, Retail Services t. 416.538.5492 c. 416.828.8783 http://www.domaindirect.com "To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow." - Erik Nupponen

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Motion site
by Avri Doria Oct. 31, 2007

Oct. 31, 2007

Hi, I am told people are having trouble with reaching the web site. this tiny url works for me as well. http://tinyurl.com/2z7mcc it is the same site as always, so if you have it bookmarked, then use the bookmark you have. a.

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Links to the documents for GNSO Council Open meeting 31 Oct.2007
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG Oct. 31, 2007

Oct. 31, 2007

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Background regarding IGO DRP
by Olof Nordling Oct. 30, 2007

Oct. 30, 2007

Dear all, As suggested by Kristina during the IPC meeting today, please note the early background on the subject matter of IGO names and abbreviations, as referenced in the Issues Report p 23, see below. Best regards Olof "The final report of the Joint Working Group (not dated, but presumably from November 2004) is available at: http://www.icann.org/committees/JWGW2/finalreport/ The report notes a wide divergence of views as well as providing an annex with sample of what implementation might look like. This annex was drafted by a GAC representative in the Working Group. The public comments to the Joint Working Groups final report are available at http://www.icann.org/committees/JWGW2/ ."

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