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Proposed Agenda for the GNSO Council Public Meeting - San Francisco Silicon Valley 16 March 2011
by Glen de Saint Géry March 5, 2011

March 5, 2011

Proposed Agenda for the GNSO Council Public Meeting - San Francisco Silicon Valley 16 March 2011, Reference to ICANN Schedule http://svsf40.icann.org/node/22187 Note that this agenda may be updated as more information becomes available so interested parties are encouraged to periodically check for the latest updates on the GNSO Council Workspace at: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?proposed_agenda_16_march_2011# As can be seen below, in addition to the Open Microphone at the end of the agenda, as possible throughout the meeting time will be allowed for audience participation. Please be aware that audience opportunities to comment will depend on available time. Meeting Times Coordinated Universal Time:20:30 UTC - see below for local times (13:30 San Francisco, 16:30 Washington DC, 20:30 London, 21:30 Brussels 17 March 2011 01:30 Karachi, 05:30 Tokyo, 07:30 Melbourne This agenda was established according to the GNSO Council Operating Procedures approved 5 August 2010 for the GNSO Council. http://gnso.icann.org/council/gnso-op-procedures-05aug10-en.pdf For convenience: * An excerpt of the ICANN Bylaws defining the voting thresholds is provided in Appendix 1 at the end of this agenda. * An excerpt from the Council Operating Procedures defining the absentee voting procedures is provided in Appendix 2 at the end of this agenda. (Insert links to meeting audio-cast and Adobe connect as applicable.) 1. Administrative Matters (10 minutes) a. Roll call of Council members, noting alternates and proxies (Glen) b. Polling for Disclosures of Interest i. Per the GNSO Operating Procedures, Section 5.4, we are required to poll Councilors regarding "any direct or indirect interests that may affect a Relevant Party's judgment on an issue that is under review, consideration, or discussion" in this meeting. ii. Here is the definition provided in the procedures: "Disclosure of Interest: Relevant to a specific issue at a specific time. A written statement made by a Relevant Party of direct and indirect interests that may be commercial (e.g. monetary payment) or non-commercial (e.g. non-tangible benefit such as publicity, political or academic visibility) and may affect, or be perceived to affect, the Relevant Party's judgment on a specific issue." iii. The main issues for this meeting are: * GNSO Project Decision Making * New gTLD Applicant Guidebook * Joint New gTLD Applicant Support Recommendations * Recommendations re. Registration Abuse Policies * Joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis Working Group Charter * Whois & Internationalized Registration Data * GNSO Improvements b. Update any statements of interest c. Review/amend agenda d. Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meeting per the GNSO Operating Procedures: .24 February 2011 meeting minutes: Scheduled for approval on 11 March 2010 Item 2: Pending Projects - GNSO Toolkit of services (25 minutes) Update on this work. The "toolkit" refers to a list of basic services approved by the GNSO Council 17 Dec 2009 that will be made available to eligible GNSO organizations. Implementation proposals have been discussed and feedback requested by Feb 15, 2011. Refer to GNSO Pending Projects list http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf. 2. 1 Update on work, indication of proposed next steps - Rob Hoggarth, ICANN Staff 2. 2 Discussion * Council * Audience 2. 3 Next steps Item 3: Operations Steering Committee (OSC) (25 minutes) 3.1 Updating OSC Recommendation for Proxies in the GNSO Operating Procedures. Group of volunteers to work on proposed alternative text to existing OSC recommendations <insert link> before submitting text to OSC. * Bill Drake has volunteered to lead * Update and proposed text * Next steps Item 4: PPSC Proposed GNSO Working Group Guidelines (25minutes) * Refer to: resolution 13 Jan meeting http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201101 * See public comments received (http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-wg-guidelines/) as well as summary & analysis provided by staff * Refer to Council discussion during Feb 24 meeting. PPSC Chair has relayed comments received on the report back to the PPSC with a goal of finalizing the report so the Council can vote to approve it in San Francisco. 4.1 Refer to motion https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?16_march_motions 4.2 Discussion * Council * Audience 4.3 Vote Item 5: Cartagena Board Resolution on Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation (30 minutes) Refer to Board resolution: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-10dec10-en.htm#6 Rosemary Sinclair has volunteered to lead. A proposed response has been drafted to send to the Board. 5.1 Update from Rosemary Sinclair and analysis of proposed response. 5. 2 Discussion * Council * Audience 5. 3 Next steps? Is there consensus on sending the response to the Board as proposed and drafted? Item 6: Joint DNS security and stability analysis working group (DSSA-WG) (25 minutes) At their meetings during the ICANN Brussels meeting ALAC, the ccNSO, the GNSO, the GAC and the NRO acknowledged the need for a better understanding of the security and stability of the global DNS. To this end these SOs and ACs agreed to establish a joint DNS Security and Stability Working Group (DSSA-WG). Refer to DSSA-WG draft charter http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/dssa-draft-charter-12nov10-en.pdf ccNSO has agreed to a maximum of 12 volunteers from the GNSO. Current GNSO volunteers: * Zahid Jamil- (CBUC) * Scott McCormick - (CBUC) * Mikey O'Connor - (CBUC) * Adam Palmer- (CBUC Symantec) * George Asare-Sakyi - (NCSG) * Rafik Dammak - (NCSG) * Matt Serlin - (MarkMonitor, RrSG) * Rick Wilhelm (Networksolutions RrSG) * Greg Aaron- (Afilias, RySG) * Keith Drazek- (Verisign, RySG) * Don Blumenthal - (PIR, RySG) * Mike Rodenbaugh - (IPC) * Chris Wright - (RrSG) * Forest 6.1 Finalise list of volunteers 6.2 Selection of GNSO co-chair for the WG. Item 7: Study Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories (15 minutes) The call for volunteers for this group has now closed. The ccNSO has agreed to a maximum of 8 volunteers from the GNSO. Current GNSO volunteers: Carlos Aguirre - GNSO Nominationg Committee Appointee George Asare-Sakyi - NCSG Ilya Bazlyankov - RrSG Olga Cavalli - GNSO Nominationg Committee Appointee Ching Chiao - RySG - Liaison for GNSO Council Avri Doria - NCSG Jothan Frakes - Volker Greimann - RrSG Jean Guillon - Tony Harris- ISPCP Garth Miller - Krista Papac - RrSG Alexei Sozonov - RrSG 7.1 Update from Liz Gasster 7.2 Discussion * Council * Audience 7.3 Select 8 volunteers to be put forward to ccNSO. Item 8: Follow-up on RAP recommendations (30 minutes) See next step suggestions from previous meetings: * Provide an outline of topics to be addressed in the UDRP Issues paper and the discussion paper on the creation of non-binding best practices to help registrars and registries address the abusive registrations of domain names in accordance with the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Final Report. * Seek input or comments from the Council during the GNSO weekend working sessions. 8.1 Update from Liz Gasster 8.2 Discussion * Council * Audience 8.3 Next steps Item 9: WHOIS Service Requirements Report - Update Liz Gasster (25 minutes) Discussion * Council * Audience Item 10. Other Business (5 minutes) Item 11. Open Microphone (30 minutes) Appendix 1: GNSO Council Voting Thresholds (ICANN Bylaws, Article X, Section 3) 9. Except as otherwise specified in these Bylaws, Annex A hereto, or the GNSO Operating Procedures, the default threshold to pass a GNSO Council motion or other voting action requires a simple majority vote of each House. The voting thresholds described below shall apply to the following GNSO actions: 1. Create an Issues Report: requires an affirmative vote of more than 25% vote of each House or majority of one House; 2. Initiate a Policy Development Process ("PDP") Within Scope (as described in Annex A): requires an affirmative vote of more than 33% of each House or more than 66% of one House; 3. Initiate a PDP Not Within Scope: requires an affirmative vote of more than 75% of one House and a majority of the other House ("GNSO Supermajority"); 4. Approve a PDP Recommendation Without a GNSO Supermajority: requires an affirmative vote of a majority of each House and further requires that one GNSO Council member representative of at least 3 of the 4 Stakeholder Groups supports the Recommendation; 5. Approve a PDP Recommendation With a GNSO Supermajority: requires an affirmative vote of a GNSO Supermajority; and 6. Approve a PDP Recommendation Imposing New Obligations on Certain Contracting Parties: where an ICANN contract provision specifies that "a two-thirds vote of the council" demonstrates the presence of a consensus, the GNSO Supermajority vote threshold will have to be met or exceeded with respect to any contracting party affected by such contract provision. Appendix 2: Absentee Voting Procedures (Council Operating Procedures 4.4) Members that are absent from a meeting at the time of a vote on the following items may vote by absentee ballot: 1. Initiate a policy development process; 2. Forward a policy recommendation to the Board; 3. Recommend amendments to the ICANN Bylaws; 4. Fill a position open for election. The GNSO Secretariat will provide reasonable means for transmitting and authenticating absentee ballots, which could include voting by telephone, e- mail, or web-based interface. Absentee ballots must be submitted within 72 hours following the start of the meeting in which a vote is initiated, except that, in exceptional circumstances announced at the time of the vote, the Chair may reduce this time to 24 hours or extend the time to 7 days. There must be a quorum for the meeting in which the vote is initiated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between October and March, Winter in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 20:30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PST) UTC-8+0DST 13:30 New York/Washington DC, USA (EST) UTC-5+0DST 16:30 Buenos Aires, Argentina (ART) UTC-3+0DST 17:30 Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo Brazil (BRST) UTC-2+1DST 17:30 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+0DST 20:30 Darmstadt, Germany (CET) UTC+1+0DST 21:30 Paris, France (CET) UTC+1+0DST 21:30 Karachi, Pakistan (PKT) UTC+5+0DST 01:30 next day Hong Kong, China (HKT) UTC+8+0DST 04:30 next day Tokyo, Japan (JST) UTC+9+0DST 05:30 next day Melbourne,/Sydney Australia (EDT) UTC+10+1DST 07:30 next day ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of March 2011, 2:00 or 3:00 local time (with exceptions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Invitation to join the IDN variant TLD session in San Francisco
by Glen de Saint Géry March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Subject: Invitation to join the IDN variant TLD session in San Francisco Dear members of the ICANN community, The delegation and management of Variant TLDs remains an important issue. The ICANN community seeks to develop solutions to enable the delegation of Variant TLDs for the benefit of users in different regions. ICANN has publishing for public comment a Draft Proposal for an IDN Variant Issues Project - a proposal for moving this work forward. ( http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-5-21feb11-en.htm) At the upcoming San Francisco meeting, ICANN is planning to conduct a workshop to discuss the draft proposal. In this session, representatives from different language communities will also be invited to provide an overview of the potential issues with IDN variant TLDs. If you are interested in this topic, we welcome your participation. Below please find the workshop details. IDN Variant TLDs Date: Wed 16 Mar 2011 - 15:00 - 16:30 Room: Elizabethan A-C Overview In this session, we describe a proposed approach to identifying issues of delegating IDN variant TLDs through five case studies. The plan proposes the creation of teams composed of community experts in linguistics, DNS, registry operations, and policy. The session will seek to recruit interested persons for this effort. Specifically, ICANN proposes to conduct five case studies (suggested cases are Chinese, Arabic, Latin, Indic, and Cyrillic) to investigate the set of issues that need to be resolved to facilitate a good user experience for IDN variant TLDs. From these five case studies, an Issues Report will be created. The corresponding Board resolution can be found here: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-10dec10-en.htm#7) In this session, we also invite representatives from IDN using communities to provide an overview of the potential issues with IDN variant TLDs. Who Should Attend? | Anyone interested in IDN variants. How to Participate Remotely? Please refer to http://svsf40.icann.org/node/22193 for remote participation information. Warm regards, ICANN Policy Support

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New version of the GNSO Working sessions schedule
by Glen de Saint Géry March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Dear Council Members, Olga has asked me to send the revised version of the GNSO Saturday and Sunday working sessions schedule for your review and comment before it is posted and distributed to the Stakeholder and Constituency groups. We hope that it captures the suggested changes. The detailed agendas will be posted on the Wiki pages https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?proposed_agenda_12_march https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?proposed_agenda_13_march Please let us have your comments, changes and additions by no later than Monday, 7 March 2011. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Meeting with the GAC in SF
by Olga Cavalli March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Hi, GAC has confirmed the meeting with our council in SF. So now we have a new task, we should think about the topics that we want to discuss with them. Your comments are welcome so Glen and me can prepare a list of them. Best regards and have a nice weekend (long one in Argentina!) Olga

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Fwd: GAC Communique Brussels Intersessional
by Stéphane Van Gelder March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Councillors, FYI, please find attached the GAC communiqué from the Brussels meeting. Stéphane > > > >

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REMINDER: Agenda Board meeting with GNSO Council - Sunday March 13, 4pm 5:30 pm
by Glen de Saint Géry March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

REMINDER: These topics should be confirmed no later than by the close of Business tomorrow, 4 March so that they can be transmitted to the Board. Thank you Kind regards, Glen Dear Council Members, In relation with the meeting with the Board on Sunday afternoon, we should send an agenda for this meeting as soon as possible. In this sense let me remind you that during the last Council meeting it was agreed to propose the topic: - Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation: context of the Board resolution Should you have other topics to be included in the agenda, please let Glen and myself know as soon as possible. Best regards and thanks. Olga Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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RE: [council] RE: REMINDER: Agenda Board meeting with GNSO Council - Sunday March 13, 4pm 5:30 pm
by Tim Ruiz March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

also, can we find out before SF if the actual consultation with GAC is or is not going to take place there? At the end, it sounded like the GAC was not on the same page about that. I'm not clear on whether that was resolved or not. Tim > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [council] RE: REMINDER: Agenda Board meeting with GNSO Council > - Sunday March 13, 4pm 5:30 pm > From: "Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman(a)neustar.us> > Date: Thu, March 03, 2011 4:22 pm > To: Glen de Saint GÃ©ry<Glen(a)icann.org>, Council GNSO > <council(a)gnso.icann.org> > > I would like to add a topic (if others agree) on new TLDs, but specifically the role of the GNSO community in addressing any new items that come out of the GAC/BD discussions on new gTLDs. More specifically, to the extent that there are any inconsistencies between the policy advice given by the GNSO and what the ICANN Board agrees to with the GAC, how will those matters be handled? > > I did attend the Brussels meeting this week and I am not so concerned about the concessions that were already made (other than some implementation questions I have as a registry), but if some of the "2s" given by the ICANN Board become a "1A or 1B" in the next few weeks, I believe we may have a conflict that needs to be worked out. > > I hope that made sense to people. > > Jeffrey J. Neuman > Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy > > > The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you have received this e-mail message in error and any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and delete the original message. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Glen de Saint Géry > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:12 PM > To: Council GNSO > Subject: [council] REMINDER: Agenda Board meeting with GNSO Council - Sunday March 13, 4pm 5:30 pm > > > REMINDER: These topics should be confirmed no later than by the close of Business tomorrow, 4 March so that they can be transmitted to the Board. > > Thank you > Kind regards, > Glen > > > Dear Council Members, > > In relation with the meeting with the Board on Sunday afternoon, we should > send an agenda for this meeting as soon as possible. > > In this sense let me remind you that during the last Council meeting it was > agreed to propose the topic: > > > - Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation: context of the Board > resolution > > > Should you have other topics to be included in the agenda, please let Glen > and myself know as soon as possible. > > Best regards and thanks. > > Olga > > > > Glen de Saint Géry > GNSO Secretariat > gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org > http://gnso.icann.org

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ccNSO update - new members
by Olga Cavalli March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Hi, New ccNSO members are: .cd (Democratic Republic of Congo) and .ua (Ukraine) members 112 & 113. Best regards Olga

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ccNSO Update – Final WG Report
by Olga Cavalli March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Hi, you may have received this information from other sources, but just in case you did not it I am resending it to our list. Best regards Olga -------------------------------------- ccNSO Review – Final WG Report 3 March 2011 The Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Review WG submitted its draft final report http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/ccnso/ccnso-review-draft-final-report-15nov…, 787 KB], for public comment http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201101-en.htm#ccnso-r… 15 November 2010. On date of closure, 15 January 2011, two comments http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-review-draft-final-report had been provided, expressing full support for the report while adding useful precision on details and recent ccNSO developments (see summary http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-review-draft-final-report/msg00002.html) In consideration of the response and following WG discussion, the ccNSO Review WG has updated details in line with the comments, while keeping the report's overall conclusions unchanged, and now releases the final WG review report http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/ccnso/ccnso-review-wg-final-report-04mar11-…, 296 KB]. This report is published pending Board consideration. For further information, please refer to the ccNSO review web page http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/ccnso/.

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Fw: ALAC Resolution on the Proposed Revised JAS Charter
by Neuman, Jeff March 3, 2011

March 3, 2011

Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq. Vice President, Law & Policy NeuStar, Inc. Jeff.Neuman(a)neustar.biz From: ICANN At-Large Staff [mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 02:48 AM To: Secretary <secretary(a)icann.org> Cc: Neuman, Jeff; David Olive <david.olive(a)icann.org>; Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr(a)gmail.com>; Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl(a)gih.com>; Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa(a)fmai.org>; Evan Leibovitch <evan(a)telly.org>; Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels(a)gmail.com>; ICANN At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> Subject: ALAC Resolution on the Proposed Revised JAS Charter Dear Diane, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Resolution on the Proposed Revised JAS Charter on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee. The first version of the attached Proposed Revised ALAC JAS Charter was drafted by Carlton Samuels, member of the At-Large advisory Committee (ALAC) and Co-Chair of the Joint applicant Support (JAS) working group on 27 January 2010. The draft document was revised extensively by Alan Greenberg, the ALAC Liaison to the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) Council and a second version produced into a resolution and sent to the ALAC Executive Committee for further revision on 9 February 2011. The Proposed Revised ALAC JAS Charter (the attached document) was sent to the ALAC Working list on 24 February 2011. The Appendix to the resolution features a comparison of the different versions of the JAS Charter. On 24 February 2011, the Chair of the ALAC asked the Staff to start a five-day online vote on the ALAC resolution on the Proposed Revised ALAC JAS Charter. The vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the resolution with 11-0 votes and no abstentions. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1592gybVUyKuQsbcf9DLza2g The ALAC welcomes any comments the Board may wish to make by reply. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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