January 2008 - council - lists.icann.org

GNSO Elections for ICANN Board Director seat 14
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear Council members, The nomination period for ICANN Board director seat 14 is officially closed. One candidate, Rita Rodin was nominated, seconded and accepted her nomination. http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-nominations/ B. VOTING PROCEDURE Since there is only one candidate, there will be one round of voting by secret electronic ballot. C. PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR THE VOTING Friday 29 February 2008, 15:00 UTC - Friday 7 March 2008, 15:00 UTC D. GNSO COUNCIL MEMBERS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE: All GNSO Council members are eligible to vote, that is, 3 representatives from each constituency, Registrars, gTLD registries, Commercial and Business Users (CBUC), Non Commercial Users (NCUC), Intellectual Property (IPC), and Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers (ISPCP) and the 3 Nominating Committee appointees. Liaisons from the ALAC and the GAC do not vote. E. COUNTING OF VOTES: As provided in the ICANN bylaws, http://www.icann.org/general/archive-bylaws/bylaws-28feb06.htm, Article X, section 5.2. each GNSO Council member representing either the registrars constituency or the gTLD registries constituency will be entitled to cast two votes in each round, and all other members (including those selected by the Nominating Committee) shall be entitled to cast one vote. There will be a total of 27 votes cast and the winning candidate must receive at least 14 affirmative votes. F. VOTING Voting will take place by secret e-mail ballot. 1. Ballots will be sent out individually to each GNSO Council members' e-mail address. 2. Ballots should be filled out and returned to the e-mail address stated in the ballot. They should not be copied to any e-mail list. 3. At the scheduled time, the Secretariat will announce the result of by sending a message to the <gnso-elections(a)icann.org mailing list>. The announcement will include: a. The number of votes the candidate received; b. The names of the GNSO Council members from whom ballots were received; and c. The confidential code number of each ballot . Item 3(c) will allow each GNSO Council member to double-check that his or her ballot was properly understood, but will not allow others to determine how the member voted. 4. In exceptional cases where a GNSO Council member has no Internet access during the voting period, a voice vote may be registered with the GNSO Secretariat personally during the voting period, before the vote is closed. G. DISCLOSURE OF THE VOTING The Secretariat will announce the outcome of the voting at the close of the voting period. The GNSO Council will confirm the results of the voting at a Council meeting. Once that occurs, the GNSO Secretariat will prepare and post a full record of all voting, including how each member voted in each round. H. DISCUSSION MAILING LIST DURING ELECTIONS 1. In accordance with a decision as noted in: http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20030325.GNSOrio-captioning.html http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20030325.GNSOrio-minutes.html http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc12ch/msg00247.html Public archiving of the GNSO Council list will not be stopped. A separate archive and mailing list will be created for the purpose of managing elections going forward. This list will (a) exclude those Council members who are candidates; but include (b) any liaisons from the ALAC or GAC to the GNSO Council; and (c) the GNSO Secretariat. The list recipients and archiving will be concluded at the end of the process. This list name is gnso-elections(a)icann.org and archives will be posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-elections/ following the conclusion of the election. 2. Messages posted to the list should be treated as confidential until the end of the elections. The GNSO Secretariat may, however, disclose them to the General Counsel's office to the extent appropriate to obtain advice about how to handle procedural problems that arise during the voting process. The Council list should continue to be used for normal policy development work. Please note that no ICANN staff, except the GNSO secretariat will be recipients of the special election mailing list during this period, and they should be contacted separately with any enquiries. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Perfect time for the ICANN meeting
by Alan Greenberg 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Last weekend there was a major fire at the Grand Hotel - one of the few ICANN hotels, and now two of the three undersea cables serving India has apparently been cut! http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2008/gb20080131_575929.htm… Cable Snafu Cuts Internet Access in India Cuts to two subsea cables in the Mediterranean disrupted internet and voice services in India and the Middle East. The two cables are the prime direct links between Europe, the Middle East, and south Asia Cuts to two subsea cables in the Mediterranean have severely disrupted internet and voice services in India and the Middle East. Damage to the Flag Europe-Asia and the SeaMeWe-4 cables have left only the older SeaMeWe-3 system to provide service between Europe and the Middle East, research firm TeleGeography said. The two cables, with 620 Gbps in capacity, are the prime direct links between Europe, the Middle East and south Asia. Until service is restored, many carriers in Egypt and the Middle East must now route their European traffic around the globe, through South East Asia and across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, TeleGeography said. It is not clear what caused the cable breaks, which occurred on the morning of January 30

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Links to relevant documents for the GNSO Council meeting 31 January at 21:00 UTC
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Dear All, In preparation for the Council meeting in a couple of hours please find the relevant links to documents that will be discussed. Please note that the GNSO Comments in Response to the ccNSO-GAC Issues Report on IDN Issues Final Draft – Last Revised 31 January 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/ccnso-gac-issues-report-idn-cctlds-31jan08.pdf has just been posted on the website. Item 1: Update any statements of interest (5 mins) Kristina Rosette http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rosette-soi-29jan08.shtml Mike Rodenbaugh http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rodenbaugh-soi-30jan08.shtml Item 2: Review/amend agenda (5 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-31jan08.shtml Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes of 3 January 2008 (5 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04457.html Item 4: Vote for GNSO Council vice chair (5 mins) Results of GNSO Council Vice Chair elections http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04507.html Item 7: Report of draft of Council response to Board resolution on IDN ccTLDs rework team (30 mins) GNSO Comments in Response to the ccNSO-GAC Issues Report on IDN Issues Final Draft – Last Revised 31 January 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/ccnso-gac-issues-report-idn-cctlds-31jan08.pdf Item 8: Discuss feedback from Board relating to GNSO message (15 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04406.html Item 9: Decision on absentee voting (20 mins) GNSO Council Request to the Board to enable full enfranchisement of the GNSO Council's voting responsibilities v5 http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/vote-enfranchisement-17jan08.pdf Item 10: Final plans for New Delhi meetings (10 mins) proposed schedule attached with time zone chart Item 11: Action Item Review (5 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Fwd: set up jabber conference room for gnso council meeting, Jan.30
by Avri Doria 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, A Jabber conference room has ben set up by the staff. Thanks. I received these instructions from Yan Sun who is helping us with our technical tools and issues. Begin forwarded message: > First, confirmed by our system engineer, to use the jabber room > we set up for you, every user needs to have a gmail or jabber > account. The easier way we suggest is to register a gmail account > with google, and download one of the jabber client (you can see a > list of popular clients,http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml). > > After you get them (gmail account and jabber client is > installed), open the jabber client, login with you gmail account > (i.e.: To use Adium in Mac, choose “Google talk” as the account type). > > Next, in the jabber client, join the jabber room (i.e. In Adium, > under “File”, choose “Join Group Chat”) by specifying the conference > room as “gnso-council”, server as “conference.jabber.icann.org”, and > use the password we give you. (p.s. For Adium, give any Nickname you > like for yourself as the “Handle”.) The room name and password will be sent separately on the notify list. a.

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FW: [ipf] SSAC advisory on fast flux hosting and DNS
by Mike Rodenbaugh 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025.pdf Fyi there is a recent report from SSAC, which recommends that the community examine steps to mitigate the criminal effects of fast flux hosting. The rise of fast flux hosting has had severely negative effects on law enforcement (private and governmental) efforts to deal with e-crime. Moreover, fast flux hosting appears to have no legitimate purpose, and can be effectively mitigated by certain steps adopted by some registries and registrars already. SSAC has done great background work here, and now I think it is time for the GNSO to take lead on this issue. I would like to have preliminary discussion at a Council meeting in the near future, please. I also copy the Business Constituency for comments back to me or the BC List please. Thanks, Mike Rodenbaugh -----Original Message----- From: Dave Piscitello [mailto:dave.piscitello@icann.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:53 AM To: ipf(a)antiphishing.kavi.com Subject: [ipf] SSAC advisory on fast flux hosting and DNS Is now published at http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025.pdf Many of you deserve our thanks for providing valuable insights. You will undoubtedly note these as you read. I've also alluded to or referenced APWG activities and reports in the Advisory. Think of this Advisory as first in a series of efforts. Most of the ICANN community is at best vaguely familiar with criminal activities and how criminals are pursued. Hopefully this Advisory provides much-needed education and awareness. We also enumerate current and possible countermeasures. We hope that a broader and more uniform set of practices emerges from our findings and recommendations. SSAC doesn't dictate or write policy. We only advise ICANN, its BoD, and the community. We can make recommendations, but it's up to ICANN, the registries and registrars, and other affected and influencing parties to act on our recommendations.

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Agenda Item "Decision on absentee voting"
by Avri Doria 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi While we should have a discussion on this today in the meeting, I am not sure that we are ready for a decision on it. As far as I can tell we still need to: - reach agreement on any wording changes to the absentee voting proposal. - get feedback from legal counsel on the proposal We also do not have any motions pending on this for today's meeting. thanks a.

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Item under 'ND meeting schedule' discussion for council meeting.
by Avri Doria 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, I have currently tentatively schedule: ------ Saturday 9-1030 DNT 11- 1230 IRT lunch 1400 - 1530 GNSO Improvements 1600 - 1700 Staff update on new gTLD implementation plans 1700 - 1800 AOB Sunday 9 - 1230 IDN responses lunch 1400-1530 Prep for meeting with ccNSO council 1600-1730 Prep for Open Council meeting ----- But we could reverse the Saturday and the Sunday morning schedules so that we do IDN repsonse on Saturday and DNT and IRT on Sunday. The advantage of shifting the schedule is that it allows any council member who is arriving too late on Saturday for the DNT and IRT meetings to attend those meeting, though they will miss the IDN discussion. It also allows us to have the IDN discussion on answers to the GAC/ccNSO question one day, let it settle in our minds and then discuss our approach to the joint meeting, the following day. The disadvantage is that it excludes not only the ALAC Liaison from the DNT discussion, but it also exclude ALACs members from attending an open meting on the subject they brought to the table. Any thoughts? I would like to close this subject during the meeting tomorrow. thanks a.

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Final Draft GNSO Response to the ccNSO/GAC Issues Paper on IDN ccTLDs
by Gomes, Chuck 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Here is the final draft of the proposed response to the ccNSO/GAC Issues Paper on IDN ccTLDs. This will also be posted on the website before today's Council call. Please note that we will be spending about 30 minutes in today's meeting briefly going over this so if you are able to view it during the meeting that would be helpful. I fully understand that most people will not have time to read the full document before the meeting and I want to make clear that that is not expected. The plan for today's call is simply to familiarize everyone with the document and not to discuss content; we will discuss content in detail in New Delhi. For ease of reference line numbers were added to the document. In MS Word you can see them in Print Preview. They will make it easy to reference sections of the document and hopefully will facilitate the overview we do today as well as the thorough review in New Delhi. 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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Proposed schedule for New delhi meetings and related time zones
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Dear Council members, Attached please find the revised schedule with proposed times for Saturday and Sunday meetings, as well as a chart indicating the local time in relation to other time zones for those who wish to participate remotely. This will be sent out to the constituencies after the Council meeting. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Updated statements of interest from K. Rosette and M. Rodenbaugh
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Dear Council members, Kristina Rosette and Mike Rodenbaugh have updated their statements of interest as may be viewed at: http://www.gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rosette-soi-29jan08.shtml http://www.gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rodenbaugh-statement.htm Kristina Rosette North America representative, Intellectual Property Constituency Updated January 29, 2008 I am employed as a Special Counsel by Covington & Burling LLP Covington), a general practice law firm with over 600 lawyers in five offices in three countries. I am resident in Covington’s Washington, DC office and am a member of the District of Columbia bar. I specialize in Internet and trademark matters, and represent trademark owner clients in connection with such matters. Among my responsibilities, I develop and implement offensive and defensive domain name registration, Internet monitoring, and enforcement strategies; reclaim domain names through negotiation, arbitration (under the UDRP, .biz STOP, and .mobi Sunrise Challenge policies, thus far), and litigation; and advise clients on the use of keywords and sponsored links. In connection with advising firm clients of generally noteworthy trademark- or Internet-related developments, I have also provided information and updates on domain name system developments (e.g., posting of reports for public comment, announcements of new policies such as the Domain Name Transfer Policy, .eu Sunrise requirements). All such communications have been, and will continue to be, based solely on publicly available information and documents. From time to time, I register or acquire in my own name domain names for firm clients. I am currently the registrant of several domain names, both on behalf of firm clients and in an individual capacity. From time to time and as circumstances warrant, I have completed and submitted Whois Data Problem Reports on behalf of firm clients. I have been a member of the Registration Practice and DNS Administration Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association's Internet Committee since 2004, and chair the Subcommittee for the 2008-2009 term. I have determined that Covington does not represent ICANN and does not represent any clients in matters in which ICANN is an adverse party. Covington did represent the International Cooperative Alliance in connection with the formation and establishment of DotCooperation LLC, the .coop registry operator, but that matter has been closed for some time. I have also determined that Covington neither represents any gTLD or sTLD registry operator in matters relating to its capacity as a registry operator nor represents any client in matters adverse to such registry operators as registry operators. Based on the responses to my inquiries, Covington does not represent any ccTLD registry operator in its capacity as a registry operator nor does it represent any client in matters adverse to any ccTLD registry operators as registry operators. To the best of my knowledge, Covington does not represent any ICANN-accredited registrar in its capacity as a registrar nor does it represent any firm client in a matter adverse to a registrar as registrar. From time to time, Covington has represented firm clients in intellectual property matters adverse to registrars, and it is likely to do so periodically in the future. I have not been directly involved in such matters. A firm client is an ICANN-accredited registrar, but Covington does not represent it in such matters. It is possible that other firm clients may be ICANN-accredited registrars, but, if so, Covington does not represent them in such matters. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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