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ccNSO UPDATE: New Members
by Olga Cavalli June 29, 2011

June 29, 2011

Hi, for your information there are three new members of the ccNSO: .gg .je .na Total members are116. Regards Olga

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Transcript of Council-Board Meeting
by Rosette, Kristina June 29, 2011

June 29, 2011

Greetings! I hope everyone had a safe and uneventful trip home. The transcript of the Council-Board meeting appears to omit my question to Steve Crocker on the revolving door issue and his answer. I've let Glen know. If there was a particular portion of that meeting that was of interest to you, you may want to check the transcript. You can access it from http://singapore41.icann.org/node/24435. K

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Draft minutes GNSO council minutes Singapore 22 June 2011
by Glen de Saint Géry June 24, 2011

June 24, 2011

Dear Councillors, Attached please find the draft Council minutes of the public meeting on Wednesday, 22 June in Singapore. If there are no comments, these minutes will be published on the website as approved on 6 July 2011. Thank you and safe travels. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Adoption of GNSO charters and new GNSO constituencies
by Stéphane Van Gelder June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

Councillors, Just as an FYI, here is an extract from the transcript of today's Board meeting: >>PETER DENGATE THRUSH: WE BEGIN WITH A CONSENT AGENDA, AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE NEW TO THIS PROCESS THIS IS A THING BY WHICH A NUMBER OF REPORTS AND THINGS HAVE BEEN WORKED UP THROUGH THE VARIOUS PROCESSES AND COME TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL. THE BOARD HAS DISCUSSED EACH OF THESE ITEMS PRIOR TO THE MEETING. UNDERSTANDS THE CONTENTS AND HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO REMOVE ANY ITEM FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR PLACEMENT ON THE FULL JEANTD IF IT'S THOUGHT APPROPRIATE THAT ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION IS REQUIRED ON THESE ITEMS. JUST BY WAY OF EXPLANATION THEY INCLUDE APPROVAL OF MINUTES, ADOPTING CHARTERS FOR THE GNSO, A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CHARTER IN THE GNSO, APPROVAL OF A CONSTITUENCY RECOGNITION PROCESS, CHANGES TO ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS, CHANGING THE FORMULATION OF THE NOMINATING SLIDE IN REGARD TO THE KEAK SLOT, MEETINGS NEXT YEAR IN LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE. AND THEN THANKING DEPARTING. AND THANKING OUR HOSTS, AND THANKING YOU OUR MEETING PRAVERNTS PARTICIPANTS. SO WITH THAT, I AM GOING TO MOVE FROM THE CHAIR THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. IS THERE A SECONDER FOR THAT? THANK YOU, GEORGE. SO THE MOTION THAT WE ADOPT THE CONSENT AGENDA IS NOW PUT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS. (HANDS RAISED). >>PETER DENGATE THRUSH: THANK YOU. ANY OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTIONS? CARRIED. THANK YOU. The consent agenda items that are of particular relevance to the GNSO were the following: From the SIC – New GNSO Constituency Recognition Process From the SIC – Permanent Charters of the GNSO’s Commercial Stakeholders Group From the SIC – Permanent Charters of the GNSO’s Non Commercial Stakeholders Group From the SIC – Proposal for a Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency in the GNSO Thanks, Stéphane

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Open Council Meeting Drafting Team
by Glen de Saint Géry June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

Dear All, As agreed at the GNSO Council wrap-up meeting a small group has been formed to revise the format of the open Council meetings. The Open Council Meeting Drafting Team mailing list is up and running. As requested, the following people have been added to the list: Stéphane Van Gelder Adrian Kinderis Zahid Jamil" William Drake Mary Wong Jeff Neuman John Berard Please let me know whether you would like to be added to the drafting team. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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GAC Singapore Communiqué
by Bruce Tonkin June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

From: http://gac.icann.org/ GAC Communiqué – Singapore I. Introduction The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Singapore, during June 18 - 23, 2011. Forty nine Governments participated in the meeting: 47 present and 2 by remote participation. The GAC expresses warm thanks to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore for hosting the meeting and ICANN for supporting the GAC meeting. II. New gTLDs The GAC notes the Board’s 20 June decision to launch the new gTLD programme. The GAC appreciates the potentially beneficial opportunities provided by new gTLDs. However, the GAC is concerned that several elements of its advice on important public policy issues, including issues set out in the GAC's letter to the Board on 18th June (annexed), were not followed by the Board prior to the approval of the gTLD programme. The GAC acknowledges, however, that other advice was followed, and that the Board has provided a draft rationale for its decision to reject GAC advice. The GAC has the expectation that the implementation of the new gTLD programme will respect applicable law in order to avoid detrimental consequences to parties involved, in particular to applicants. The GAC expresses its willingness to continue to work constructively with the whole ICANN community on the new gTLD programme. The GAC also notes the commitment of the Board to reply in writing to the European Commission and the US government on the recent letters they have sent to ICANN related to competition issues. III. GAC-Board Joint Working Group The GAC-Board Joint Working Group (JWG) on the Role of the GAC within ICANN reviewed amendments to its draft report that address the recommendations from the Accountability and Transparency Review Team pertaining to the GAC (ATRT Recommendations #9-14). The JWG agreed to finalize the report for public comment, after which the GAC expects to collaborate with the Board to implement the recommendations included in the JWG report. The GAC also re-states its strong support for the timely implementation by the Board of all of the ATRT Recommendations. The GAC will monitor the development of the implementation closely. IV. Advancing Law Enforcement Objectives to Mitigate DNS Abuse The GAC, together with representatives of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) from several GAC members, engaged with the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Registrar Stakeholder Group on the status of LEA efforts to advance a “code of conduct” or “agreed best practices”, and reinforced the critical importance of demonstrating concrete and effective support for LEA objectives to include a timetable of implementable actions. The GAC welcomes the registrars’ offer to identify any substantive implementation issues with any unresolved LEA recommendations, for further dialogue with the GAC. The GAC recalls its endorsement of LEA recommendations for due diligence and amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement in June 2010, and urges the Board to support actions necessary to implement those recommendations as a matter of urgency. V. Meeting with the At-Large Advisory Committee The GAC met with the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) on 19 June to further advance cooperation, and particularly to discuss how the two Committees could support the work of the Joint Applicant Support (JAS) Working Group. The GAC is encouraged by the reference to the ongoing work of JAS-WG in the resolution of the ICANN Board in the launch of this new round of gTLD expansion. The GAC advises ICANN to provide the necessary resources required to evolve the JAS work towards implementation, including provision for legal, logistical, and authoring timely support of a universally accessible “Needs-Assessed Applicant Guidebook”. VI. Meeting with Security and Stability Advisory Committee The GAC held an informative and valuable meeting with the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) that focused on the SSAC’s recently released report on the effects of blocking of top-level domains on the security and stability of the DNS system. The GAC was particularly interested in the possibility of determining and developing means to identify and measure the specific harm of blocking of top level domains and possible incremental increase in harm when multiple top level domains are blocked on a wide scale. The GAC expressed its interest for more research and analysis into these issues. It also suggested having the SSAC report published in languages other than English in order to raise awareness across the wider Internet community. The GAC expressed its interest in further dialogue with the SSAC. VII. GAC-Country Code Names Supporting Organization joint session The GAC exchanged views with the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) on the following issues: the value of identifying shared priorities; the ccNSO’s perspectives on the ICANN operating plan and budget; the Framework of Interpretation Working Group (FoI WG) dealing with delegation and redelegation; an update on the Names of Countries and Territories Study Group; an update from the ccNSO on ICANN security and stability; and the impact of new territory or geographic TLDs on ccTLDs. The GAC indicated its strong interest in participating in the FoI WG, which will hold its first face to face meeting on June 23 and looks forward to receiving a more detailed project timeline from the ccNSO regarding specific issues for the GAC’s attention. VIII. Meeting with the WHOIS Review Team The WHOIS Review Team provided the GAC with a summary of the review's progress. The GAC identified and discussed: - concerns about privacy and proxy services; - the potential benefits of WHOIS data validation; and - the need for effective compliance activities, noting that legitimate users of WHOIS data are negatively affected by non-compliance. The GAC strongly supports the WHOIS Review Team's efforts, and looks forward to continued constructive engagement as the review progresses. IX. Meeting with Security, Stability and Resiliency Review Team The GAC met with the Security Stability and Resiliency (SSR) Review Team. In acknowledging the Team’s mandate and scope of work, the GAC noted that the SSR Review is an opportunity to describe shortfalls in current plans, compliance and preparedness to address potential and actual threats. The GAC supports the Review Team proposal to review areas within the scope of ICANN's technical mission, while aiming to strike a balance to ensure that ICANN's SSR related activities are taken seriously and also recommending whether the criteria would need to be modified as the Internet evolves. The GAC looks forward to continued engagement with the SSR-RT. X. Meeting with the Number Resource Organization The GAC met with the Number Resource Organization (NRO), who provided useful insights into the position of the numbering space following the final allocation of the /8 IPv4 address blocks. The GAC discussed with the NRO about the IPv4 exhaustion, legacy space, competition concerns, IPv6 allocation and actions to facilitate the transition to IPv6. The GAC noted the need to develop national initiatives to promote the technological update of the systems to ensure the communications infrastructure, public services and applications of the governments are compatible with IPv6, and to ensure that content is accessible from both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. *** The GAC warmly thanks all those among the ICANN community who have contributed to the dialogue with the GAC in Singapore. The GAC will meet during the period of the 42nd ICANN meeting in Dakar, Senegal.

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Main discussion points from today's wrap-up
by Stéphane Van Gelder June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

Hi all, Here are some of the points that I picked up from today's excellent discussions. Once again, thanks to you all for your hard work this week. Safe travels home and see you all next time. Special mention to Kristina, Adrian, Tim and Zahid. We will miss your wisdom, enthusiasm, hard work and... ice cream. Or to put it more succinctly, we will miss you!!! Stéphane GNSO review, the timeframe has been pushed back from 3 to 5 years. This currently has the next review starting in July 2013. Previous recommendations were approved by the Board at the July 2008 Paris meeting. The SIC will talk about this in the months to come. Start open Council meetings with the open mic. Do not fill the Open meetings with non-essential agenda items. If there aren't enough items to cover the time, make the meetings shorter. Informal working group on helping "juice up" the GNSO Council Open meetings: Adrian, Jeff, John, Stéphane. These are the dates we've worked out for the JAS: For the Board to approve the JAS implementation plan in Dakar on October 28, the Staff must publish all documents for the Dakar meeting 15 business days before Dakar, so October 7. So that means the Council must approve the JAS Final Report at its September 8 meeting.

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Public comment?
by Rosette, Kristina June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

I make this suggestion in all seriousness: Does it make sense to have a public comment period to find out what the community wants or needs our public meetings to be/cover? K

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If you're still waiting to pay me ...
by Mary.Wong＠law.unh.edu June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

... I'm in the back of the Padang Room, where the Public Forum is going on. I'm seated in the last row, on the right of the room if you are looking out on the room from the stage (and FWIW in front of a large fake potted plant :) I'll be watching the "show" till it ends. so give me a shout (via email) if you can't find me - if anything, to avoid another naggy email about $$$ tomorrow! :) Thanks and cheers Mary Mary W S Wong Professor of Law Chair, Graduate IP Programs Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAWTwo White StreetConcord, NH 03301USAEmail: mary.wong(a)law.unh.eduPhone: 1-603-513-5143Webpage: http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.phpSelected writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=437584

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Dates for the GNSO Council meetings from September going forward
by Glen de Saint Géry June 22, 2011

June 22, 2011

Dear All, Please find proposed dates for Council meetings at 4 week intervals starting from September 2011 Thursday 8 September - 20:00UTC Thursday 6 October - 15:00 UTC Wednesday 26 October - GNSO Public Council meeting in Dakar 14:00 local time Thursday 24 November - 11:00 UTC Thursday 22 December - 15:00 UTC Thursday 21 January - 20:00 UTC Please let me know if there are any conflicts with these dates so that they can be confirmed and changed on the calendar. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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