May 2013 - council - lists.icann.org

new gTLD update
by Bruce Tonkin May 12, 2013

May 12, 2013

Hello All, See attached presentation used in the 9 May 2013 update, from the new GLTD webinar page at: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/webinars Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget
by Glen de Saint Géry May 11, 2013

May 11, 2013

https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-10may13-en.htm FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget Comment / Reply Periods (*) Comment Open Date: 10 May 2013 Comment Close Date: 31 May 2013 - 23:59 UTC Reply Open Date: 1 June 2013 Reply Close Date: 21 June 2013 - 23:59 UTC Important Information Links Public Comment Announcement<https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-10may13-en.htm> To Submit Your Comments (Forum)<mailto:comments-op-budget-fy14-10may13@icann.org> View Comments Submitted<http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-op-budget-fy14-10may13/> Brief Overview Originating Organization: ICANN Finance Categories/Tags: * ICANN Board/Bylaws * Operations-Finances Purpose (Brief): ICANN is now opening a public comment forum for the FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget. * FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget * PPT<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-slides-fy1…> [779 KB] * PDF<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-fy14-10may…> [1.81 MB] * FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget (AtTask) * XLS<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-projects-s…> [95 KB] * PDF<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-projects-f…> [338 KB] Community members are kindly asked to provide feedback on the various aspects of the proposed budget and implementation of ICANN resources for the coming fiscal year, including operational growth tied to carry-over and new projects and the core functions of ICANN. Current Status: The FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget is currently open for public comment. Next Steps: The FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget may be modified as a result of feedback from the community, ICANN's staff and Board during this comment period, and will be presented to the ICANN Board for final approval in June 2013. Staff Contact: Xavier Calvez, CFO Email Staff Contact<mailto:controller@icann.org?subject=More%20information%20on%20the%20FY14%20Draft%20Operating%20Plan%20and%20Budget%20public%20comment%20period> Detailed Information Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose: The budget process and its outcome formalized in this document aims at establishing a detailed, documented description of the operational activities of the coming fiscal year and their financial impacts. The budget needs to be built with sufficient details to allow an adequate monitoring of activities during the year, while understanding the flexibility that is required to handle a reality that is always different than what was anticipated. Consistent with our multi-stakeholder model, this budget is the result of input from ICANN constituency groups, stakeholders, the Board of Directors and the ICANN Staff. The involvement of the various ICANN stakeholders in the operating plan and budget building process is a corner stone to the success of the multi-stakeholder model. Section II: Background: New leadership has brought immediate focus on the transformation of the organization towards operational excellence, initiated a renewed and expanded stakeholders' engagement activity, and addressed the strategic requirements of the new gTLD program. In fiscal year 2014, the organization will implement strategic initiatives designed in FY13: the transformation into a worldwide matrix organization, expanding ICANN's presence internationally, thus allowing a truly global stakeholders' engagement, implementing a DNS Industry Engagement organization, and further strengthening the infrastructure. Section III: Document and Resource Links: * FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget * PPT<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-slides-fy1…> [779 KB] * PDF<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-fy14-10may…> [1.81 MB] * FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget (AtTask) * XLS<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-projects-s…> [95 KB] * PDF<https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-projects-f…> [338 KB] Summary of Comments General Disclaimer: This section is intended to broadly and comprehensively summarize the comments submitted to this Forum, but not to address every specific position stated by each contributor. Staff recommends that readers interested in specific aspects of any of the summarized comments, or the full context of others, refer directly to the specific contributions at the link referenced above (View Comments Submitted). Section IV: Additional Information: None ________________________________ (*) Comments submitted after the posted Close Date/Time are not guaranteed to be considered in any final summary, analysis, reporting, or decision-making that takes place once this period lapses. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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NGPC Progress on GAC Advice
by Glen de Saint Géry May 11, 2013

May 11, 2013

https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-10may13-en.htm NGPC Progress on GAC Advice 10 May 2013 The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) wishes to share with the ICANN community its progress in consideration of the GAC advice and what steps are still to be taken. The NGPC met on 8 May to consider a Plan for responding to the Governmental Advisory Committee's advice on New gTLDs, transmitted to the Board through its 11 April Beijing Communiqué. The Plan is in two parts: Part 1 shown below consists of actions for soliciting input from Applicants and from the Community. Item Resp. Start Date Compl. Date Status 1 Publish GAC Communiqué and notify applicants of 21-day GAC Advice Response Period Staff 18 April Complete 2 Applicants 21-day response period to GAC Advice Applicants 19 April 10 May In progress 3 Publish GAC Communiqué to solicit input on how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings Staff 23 April Complete 4 Public comment period on how Board should address GAC Advice re: Safeguards Public 23 April Comment: May 14 Reply: 4 June In Progress 5 Collect and summarize applicant responses to GAC Advice Staff 11 May 31 May Not Started 6 Summarize and analyze public comments on how Board should address GAC Advice re: Safeguards Staff 5 June 12 June Not Started 7 Review and consider Applicant responses to GAC Advice and Public Comments on how Board should respond to GAC Advice re: Safeguards New gTLD Program Committee 13 June 20 June Not Started Part 2 consists of actions for responding to each advice given by the GAC. In so doing, the NGPC is developing a GAC scorecard similar to the one used during the GAC and the Board meetings in Brussels on 28 February and 1 March 2011. Each GAC scorecard item will be noted with a "1A", "1B", or "2": * "1A" indicates that the NGPC's proposed position is consistent with GAC advice as described in the Scorecard. * "1B" indicates that the NGPC's proposed position is consistent with GAC advice as described in the Scorecard in principle, with some revisions to be made. * "2" indicates that the NGPC's current position is not consistent with GAC advice as described in the Scorecard, and further discussion with the GAC is required following relevant procedures in the ICANN Bylaws. Part 2 of the Plan is not yet finalized and, with respect to some of the advice, cannot be finalized until after the review of the Public Comments due to be completed on 20 June. The NGPC will next meet in Amsterdam on 18 May and will provide a further update following that meeting. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Whois Information Status Policy
by Glen de Saint Géry May 11, 2013

May 11, 2013

https://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/wisp-10may13-en.htm Whois Information Status Policy Comment / Reply Periods (*) Comment Open Date: 10 May 2013 Comment Close Date: 31 May 2013 - 23:59 UTC Reply Open Date: 3 June 2013 Reply Close Date: 24 June 2013 - 23:59 UTC Important Information Links Public Comment Announcement<https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-10may13-en.htm> To Submit Your Comments (Forum)<mailto:comments-wisp-10may13@icann.org> View Comments Submitted<http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-wisp-10may13/> Brief Overview Originating Organization: ICANN Categories/Tags: * Consensus Policies * Whois Purpose (Brief): ICANN is opening a Public Comment Period for the proposed Whois Information Status Policy. Members of the Internet Community are asked to provide feedback on the proposed document. The proposed Policy is based on a recommendation from the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council related to the display of statuses in the Whois output by registry operators and registrars. Current Status: The Generic Names Supporting Organization Council ("GNSO") initiated a Policy Development Process in June 2009, which resulted in the submission of several policy and process recommendations to the ICANN Board of Directors, which the Board approved on 6 May 2012. ICANN staff developed this proposed Policy on the basis of a recommendation from a Working Group convened by the GNSO. Next Steps: ICANN will review the submitted comments and, where appropriate, incorporate suggested modifications into the Policy. Once finalized, the Policy will be implemented and made effective for all gTLD registrars and registries. Staff Contact: Steve Gobin Email Staff Contact<mailto:steve.gobin@icann.org?subject=More%20information%20on%20the%20Whois%20Information%20Status%20Policy%20public%20comment%20period> Detailed Information Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose: The Registry Agreements<https://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registries> between the gTLD registry operators and ICANN as well as the Registrar Accreditation Agreement<https://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registrars> between the ICANN accredited registrars and ICANN require registry operators and registrars to provide a publicly available Whois service that makes available certain data related to the domain names that are registered via the respective registry operators and registrars. In most of the cases, those data include domain name statuses. The names of the existing statuses often vary between the registry operators and the registrars, while some of them don't make any information available about the meaning of each status they use, which might create confusion among users. The purpose of the proposed Whois Information Status Policy is to create consistency across by requiring registry operators and registrars that display statuses in their Whois output to only refer to EPP status codes<https://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/transfers/epp-status-codes-30…> [PDF, 98 KB] and to include a link to an ICANN web page with a list of the statuses and their meaning. The proposed Policy does not require registry operators and registrars to display statuses in their Whois output if they are not already obligated to do so, but it requires those who do display statuses to only use the EPP status codes and to provide the link noted above in their output. In that regard ICANN is also seeking comment from the community about whether the Policy should require all registry operators and registrars to display Whois statuses in their Whois output. Section II: Background: On 24 June 2009, the GNSO Council launched a Policy Development Process (PDP) in connection to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#200906 - resolution 20090624-2) and the PDP working group submitted its Final Report on 30 May 2011 with a set of recommendations (http://gnso.icann.org/issues/transfers/irtp-b-final-report-30may11-en.pdf [PDF, 972 KB]), including Recommendation #8: to standardize and clarify Whois status messages regarding "Registrar Lock" status. On 22 June 2011, the GNSO Council resolved<http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#201106> that prior to the consideration of approval of the recommendation regarding the standardizing and clarifying Whois status messages regarding Registrar Lock status, the GNSO Council would request ICANN staff to provide a proposal designed to ensure a technically feasible approach can be developed to meet this recommendation. In response to this request, ICANN Staff developed a proposal in consultation with the IRTP Part B working group, which was posted for public comment and subsequently adopted by the GNSO Council on 16 February 2012 (http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#20120216-1) Following another public comment forum on the recommendation and proposal (http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/irtp-b-rec8-21feb12-en.htm<https://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/irtp-b-rec8-21feb12-en.htm>) the ICANN Board adopted these on 6 May 2012. (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-06may12-en.htm#1…<https://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-06may12-en.htm#…>) Section III: Document and Resource Links: Whois Information Status Policy<https://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/draft-wisp-10may13-en.pdf> [PDF, 52 KB] Section IV: Additional Information: None ________________________________ (*) Comments submitted after the posted Close Date/Time are not guaranteed to be considered in any final summary, analysis, reporting, or decision-making that takes place once this period lapses. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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ICANN 47, Durban
by WUKnoben May 10, 2013

May 10, 2013

Dear SG/Constituency and WG leaders, as the ICANN meeting in Beijing has come to an end the next one in Durban is just 3 months ahead from now. Being responsible to coordinate the agendas for the various GNSO meetings I’d like to invite you to come up with items your respective Stakeholder groups / Constituencies / WGs may be interested in to be covered. In particular I draw your attention to the sessions usually taking place at the ICANN meetings: a.. GNSO Saturday and Sunday sessions including a.. meeting with the Board b.. meeting with the GAC c.. meeting with other ACs b.. Meeting with the ccNSO c.. GNSO Council Public meeting As we concluded in the GNSO wrap-up session room shall be given as much as possible for the community to discuss the items as well as for brainstorming. Your early input is highly appreciated. Best regards Wolf-Ulrich Knoben

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Council dates through to end 2013
by Glen de Saint Géry May 9, 2013

May 9, 2013

Dear Councillors, At the time when we scheduled the Council meetings we did not have the Buenos Aires meeting dates, and scheduled the following dates: http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar 10 October GNSO Council Teleconference 18:00 UTC November 7 November GNSO Council Teleconference 11:00 UTC December 5 December GNSO Council Teleconference 15:00 UTC However, since then Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been established as the location of ICANN's 48th public meeting, to be held on 17-21 November 2013. In view of this, the following dates are being proposed for the GNSO Council meetings to the end of 2013. Please review and comment. 10 October GNSO Council Teleconference 18:00 UTC 31 October GNSO Council Teleconference 15 :00UTC November 20 November GNSO Public Council Meeting Buenos Aires 14 :00 Local time December 12 December GNSO Council Teleconference 15:00 UTC Thanks so much. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> http://gnso.icann.org<http://gnso.icann.org/>

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Consumer Metrics - Write to the Board to request status update
by Jonathan Robinson May 8, 2013

May 8, 2013

All, We agreed in Beijing to request a status update on the Consumer Metrics Advice. Please take a look at the attached proposed letter and give me any feedback asap before I send it off. Thank-you, Jonathan Jonathan Robinson Chair ICANN GNSO Council <mailto:jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com> jonathan.robinson(a)ipracon.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7993 6103 skype: jonathan.m.r

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New comment on gnso.icann.org
by Jonathan Robinson May 8, 2013

May 8, 2013

All, As you may have noticed, I have posted approximately once per quarter a statement on the homepage at: <http://gnso.icann.org/en/index.htm> http://gnso.icann.org/en/index.htm I haven't specifically highlighted this in the past although you may well have seen the updates. Below is a copy of the latest. As ever, any comments or feedback welcome. Jonathan -- In the run-up to the ICANN meeting in Beijing, the GNSO Council's role as policy manager within the GNSO was highlighted here for recognition and support. This vital role and the need to preserve and develop it at the heart of the multi-stakeholder model proved to be a one of the resilient themes of the meeting in Beijing. Indeed, this was summarized in a GNSO Council statement which was prepared for the public forum on the final day and subsequently sent to the ICANN Board. Notwithstanding highlighting the GNSO's role, as the entity charged in the bylaws of ICANN with policy development and providing recommendations to the Board on substantive policies relating to generic top level domains, it is incumbent on the GNSO Council to not only emphasize this position, but also to demonstrate how we can execute our policy management role efficiently and effectively. In Beijing, we recognised the need to form a working group on policy and implementation and have now reached out to others in the broader community to work with us on this critical topic. Initiatives such as this, as part of a strategic and forward looking perspective, together with maintaining productive output on bread-and-butter policy work will be where we focus our attention in the months ahead. ICANN's multi-stakeholder model is complex, dynamic and necessarily evolving. The GNSO and the GNSO Council are vital organs within the multi-stakeholder body. Therefore, we need to function effectively and look carefully ahead, as to how we might dynamically evolve in future, in order to do our part to ensure the health of that body. That sounds like an interesting journey!

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For your review - Call for volunteers - Policy & Implementation DT
by Marika Konings May 8, 2013

May 8, 2013

Dear All, Please find attached for your review the proposed call for volunteers to form a drafting team to develop a charter for a WG on Policy & Implementation, as discussed in Beijing. If you have any comments / edits, please share those with the list by Wednesday 8 May at the latest. Following that, we are planning to distribute it via the regular channels. With best regards, Marika

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Working with the ccNSO
by Jonathan Robinson May 8, 2013

May 8, 2013

All, Please be aware that, as agreed in Beijing, John Berard & Petter Rindforth will be working with Roelof Meijer & Mary Wong from the ccNSO in order to develop future joint working / collaboration in the run-up to the Durban meeting. With the above in mind, please channel any contributions to John & Petter and I expect the Council will receive appropriate updates from John & Petter in due course. Thanks, Jonathan Jonathan Robinson Chair ICANN GNSO Council <mailto:jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com> jonathan.robinson(a)ipracon.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7993 6103 skype: jonathan.m.r

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