January 2009 - council - lists.icann.org

List etiquette
by Philip Sheppard Jan. 5, 2009

Jan. 5, 2009

A Happy New Year to all. May I make the following request to help improve efficiency? I do this as someone returning from leave and reading (and deleting) many, many e-mails. 1. Please think twice before choosing a reply to sender and a reply to all. To whom are you really communicating? 2. On a list such as this, never reply to all but reply to the list (to avoid duplication). 3. If you want to be polite and thank someone for doing something, then thank them by a reply to sender (but don't copy the whole list). We all know Council members are lovely polite people - we don't need reminding. Stick to these simple rules and our e-mail traffic will reduce by around half as we no longer waste time deleting duplicates and "thank you" e-mails. It will also do wonders for RSI injuries. Philip

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RE: IDN ccTLD Fast Track implementation plan council comments
by Gomes, Chuck Jan. 3, 2009

Jan. 3, 2009

Edmon, Good job. I have just two comments: 1. It seems to me that "Compliance with consensus policies." is not a very good heading for item 4, dealing with security & stability. Would this be better: "Ensuring security and stability'? 2. Is item 5 really a concern in the fast tract if the IDN ccTLD fast track names are restricted to country names as defined by the IDNC? It seems to me that it might not be. Chuck ________________________________ From: Edmon Chung [mailto:edmon@registry.asia] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:35 AM To: gnso-idnc-initial(a)icann.org; 'Council GNSO' Subject: IDN ccTLD Fast Track implementation plan council comments Hi Everyone, Apologies for the delay on this matter, please find attached the draft for the council comments on the Draft IDN ccTLD Fast Track implementation plan. The document is mainly separated into 2 parts: (A) response on Module 7, where 5 open questions were raised (B) reemphasizing some of the issues raised previously For (A) the 5 open questions listed in Module 7 were: 1. Ensuring ongoing compliance with the IDN technical standards, including the IDNA protocol and the IDN Guidelines. 2. Possible establishment of financial contributions. 3. IDN ccTLD operator association to the ICANN community. 4. Compliance with consensus policies 5. Prevention of contention issues with existing TLDs and those under application in the gTLD process. The draft mainly extracted statements from previous documents to respond to the topics, but have also emphasized that we may require much broader input from the community on the issues because they are largely new considerations not specifically discussed previously. In particular, 3 & 4, and some respects 2 & 5. For (B) 3 items were specifically reemphasized: 1. Lack of structure for implementation in the situation where a proposed Fast Track IDN ccTLD string is not listed in the UNGEGN manual (i.e. not in a particular authoritative list) 2. Lack of clarity in the process for linguistic process check and confirmation of a requested string 3. Lack of consideration for avoiding confusingly similar strings Comments/thoughts welcome. Since, the deadline for comments to the draft implementation plan is Jan 9, in view of time, perhaps we can have a discussion on the council list and on our meeting on Jan 8 to finalize our response. Edmon PS. Happy New Year! :-)

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Updated SOI as council member
by Avri Doria Jan. 2, 2009

Jan. 2, 2009

Hi, For accuracy sake I needed to update mine. No real change, however. --- I am an independent research consultant and a part time Adjunct Professor at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden. At LTU I supervise two Ph.D. students on Delay Tolerant Networking Technology (DTN) Technology and am responsible for creating a curriculum in Internet Governance. As a professor I am partially funded by an European Commission FP7 research grant. I have a recurring part-time contract with UN-DESA and the Internet Governance Forum as a consultant on Internet Governance and WSIS follow-up activities. I also have a part-time contract with Iometrix where I am consulting on establishing certification testing programs for VoIP NNI (Network to Network Interconnect). While I am an associate of the Interisle Consulting Group, I am currently inactive and expect to remain so as long as I am involved with ICANN as a volunteer. Specifically, I have no involvement in any contracts Interisle may have with ICANN. As part of my volunteer activities I give advice to various representatives of indigenous nomadic nd semi-nomadic populations and NGOs on Internet topics which include the possibility of obtaining a gTLD. These activities may involve providing assistance in obtaining a TLD including assistance in raising the necessary funding for a TLD, when and if that is an appropriate solution to their goals. I am not, however, currently involved in any such efforts. In terms of the GNSO Council and its various working groups, committees and teams, I currently have no employment, contract, statement of work, financial interest, share ownership or any other business relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars except as a registrant of several domain names. I participate in ICANN as a pro- bono activity because I believe in ICANN's mission as a volunteer/ multistakeholder led organization.

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GNSO Council Agenda 8 January 2009
by Glen de Saint Géry Jan. 1, 2009

Jan. 1, 2009

Dear Councilors, Attached and in plain text below, please find the GNSO Council agenda for the meeting on 8 January 2009 at 19:00 UTC. The agenda is also posted on the Wiki at: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?agenda_08_jan_2009 and the motions are posted on the Wiki at https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 8 January 2009 This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council Coordinated Universal Time19:00 UTC - see below for local times (11:00 Los Angeles, 14:00 Washington DC, 19:00 London, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne next day) Avri Doria and Chuck Gomes will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins. Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members. Item 0: Roll call of Council members Pierre Bonis ccNSO observer http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/bonis-soi-19dec08.shtml Item 1: Update any statements of interest Item 2: Review/amend agenda Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes: (Items 0-3 15 mins) 20 November 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg06026.html Item 4: Confirm GNSO Council Chair election results (Chuck Gomes chairs) (5 mins) Item 5: RAA Discussion and vote (15 mins) Updated redline copy http://www.icann.org/en/topics/raa/redline-2001-raa-25nov08.pdf Updated RAA provisions comparison http://www.icann.org/en/topics/raa/raa-provisions-comparison-16dec08.pdf Current list of proposed RAA amendments - 16 December 2008 http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.p… See proposed motion: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Item 6: New gTLDs Implementation (15 mins) See new gTLD motion 1 on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Next steps regarding draft New gTLD Guidebook issues for which Staff varied significantly from GNSO recommendations (geographic names, single character IDN names, other?) Item 7: IDN Deployment - Discussion and motion (15 mins) See new gTLD motion 2 on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Item 8: GNSO Improvements Operations Steering Committee (OSC) Charter approval (10 mins) See motion on Wiki https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?08_jan_2009_motions Item 9: GNSO comments re IDN ccTLD fast track implementation plan (10 mins) Item 10: Status Updates (15 mins) 10.1 Board Update 10.2 Policy Items 10.2.1 Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery 10.2.3 Travel Policy 10.2.3 Other? 10.3 Drafting Teams 10.3.1 Whois 10.3.2 Registration Abuse Policy 10.3.3 ccTLD response 10.4 Working Groups 10.4.1 Fast Flux 10.4.2 IRTP Part A PDP 10.5 GNSO "Improvements" 10.5.1 PPSC Update 10.5.2 OSC Update 10.6 GNSO Restructuring Item 11: AOB 11.1 GNSO Council Vice Chair elections 11.2 Other ? (11:00 Los Angeles, 08:00 Washington DC, 13:00 London, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne next day) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between October and March, Winter in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 19:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PDT) UTC-8+0DST 11:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EDT) UTC-5+0DST 14:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 16:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-3+0DST 16:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+0DST 19:00 Brussels, Belgium (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 20:00 Paris, France (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 20:00 Barcelona, Spain (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 20:00 Karachi, Pakistan UTC+5+1DST 18:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 03:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 03:00 Melbourne, Australia (EDT) UTC+10+1DST 06:00 (Friday 9 January.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of March 2009, 2:00 or 3:00 local time (with exceptions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2009! Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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