Dear Councillors,

Ahead of the official Council minutes, the following resolutions were passed unanimously, Council approved the items below and you are reminded of certain action items.  

The results of the motion to commence a Policy Development Process on Vertical Integration will be posted at the end of the 72 hour absentee voting period, which ends on 12:54 UTC, Sunday, 31 January 2010.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Glen

1. Motion to Approve GNSO Council response to the draft proposal on the Affirmation Reviews Requirements and Implementation Processes proposed by Chuck Gomes seconded by Stéphane van Gelder with friendly amendments.

Whereas:

On 26 December 2009, ICANN Staff posted for public comment a discussion draft

(http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/affirmation-reviews-draft-proposal-26dec09-en.pdf ) that addresses the requirements and implementation processes for the reviews called for in the Affirmation of Commitments (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30sep09-en.htm#affirmation )

On 7 January 2010, the GNSO Council initiated a drafting team to develop comments in response to the discussion draft

On 19 January 2010, the drafting team submitted comments for Council consideration, which can be found at http://gnso.icann.org/drafts .

The GNSO Council:

Approves the comments

Requests the Secretariat to post the comments to the public comment forum on behalf of the Council.

Passed unanimously by voice vote of those present.

Absent at the time of the vote:

Adrian Kinderis, Olga Cavalli, Mike Rodenbaugh, Zahid Jamil

Action Item:

· The Council agreed that the drafting team, under the leadership of Bill Drake, should continue working on how GNSO volunteers should be identified as nominees for each of the four review teams.

· The procedures should be presented to the Council on 10 February, 8 days before the Council meeting on 18 February 2010 for approval.

· Councillors and stakeholder Groups are requested to provide input to the drafting team by COB on Monday, 1 February 2010.

2. Motion to approve Procedures for the 2010 Election of Board Seat 13 proposed by Chuck Gomes

seconded by Olga Cavalli

In response to section 3.3 of the GNSO Council Operating Procedures requirement that motions be posted 8 days in advance of meetings, the Council approved an exception to this requirement for this motion.

Whereas, the term for ICANN’s Board Seat 13, currently held by Bruce Tonkin, ends six months after the conclusion of the ICANN annual meeting, in April 2010;

Whereas, Article X, Section 6 of the ICANN Bylaws provide that the GNSO shall make selections to fill Seat 13 as follows:

a. the Contracted Party House shall select a representative to fill Seat 13; and

b. the Non-Contracted Party House shall select a representative to fill Seat 14.

Whereas, the GNSO Council desires to approve the procedures described in Annex 1 for the selection of 2010 Board Seat 13;

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-operating-procedures-redline-28jan10-en.pdf

Whereas, the GNSO Council desires to amend the GNSO Council Operating Procedures to adopt procedures to commence the selection process for the 2010 Election of Board Seat 13;

Whereas, under the ICANN Bylaws, a twenty-one (21) day public comment period should be commenced with regard to amendments to the GNSO Council Operating Procedures;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:

RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council approves the procedures described in Annex 1 for the selection of 2010 Board Seat 13;

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-operating-procedures-redline-28jan10-en.pdf

RESOLVED FURTHER, that Section 2 of the GNSO Council Operating Procedures are amended to include a new Section 2.4 at the end hereof:

“2.4 Board Seat Elections. The process for selecting the individual to fill Board Seat 13, which term expires at the end of April, 2010, is described on Annex 1 hereto.

Except as expressly amended above, the GNSO Council Operating Procedures shall continue in full force and effect, as approved by the GNSO Council on 28 October 2009.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council directs Staff to commence a twenty-one (21) day public comment period on this amendment to the GNSO Operating Procedures, and reserves the right to modify the election procedures described in Annex 1 after the conclusion of the public comment period.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council Operations Work Team shall be tasked with developing the procedures for the future selection of Board Seats 13 and 14 to be included in the GNSO Council Operating Procedures.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Secretariat shall support the selection process for the 2010 election of Board Seat 13.

Passed unanimously by voice vote of those present.

Absent at the time of the vote:

Adrian Kinderis, Olga Cavalli, Mike Rodenbaugh, Zahid Jamil

Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Working Group (JIG)

The GNSO Council approved the two new members Rafik Dammak and Karen Anne Hayne as GNSO JIG members and Avri Doria as a JIG observer.

Current GNSO JIG membership

        1. Edmon Chung, Co-Chair (RySG) - Approved by the Council on 3 Sep 09

        2. Terry Davis (NomCom Appointee) - Approved by the Council on 3 Sep 09

        3. Stéphane van Gelder (RrSG) - Approved by the Council on 3 Sep 09

        4. Rafik Dammak (NCSG)

        5. Karen Anne Hayne (CSG)

 GNSO JIG observers

1. Avri Doria (NCSG) - Originally an ex-officio member as GNSO Council Chair

2. Chuck Gomes (Ex-Officio)

Nairobi Meeting Planning:
Action Items:

· Requests for meeting space in the GNSO Working sessions on Saturday and Sunday should be sent to Stéphane van Gelder and the gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org.

· Councillors and Stakeholder groups are requested to indicate specific interest in a GNSO Council session to discuss new gTLD issues on Saturday, 6 March 2010 from 13:00 to 16:00 local time.

· A drafting team was formed to prepare for the joint GAC/GNSO  meeting on Sunday, 7 March 2010.
Volunteers are Rosemary Sinclair and Bill Drake and anyone wishing to join should contact  the gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org.

· Councillors and Stakeholder groups are requested to provide topics for discussion at the joint ccNSO/GNSO lunch meeting in Nairobi on Monday, 8 March 2010 in addition to the suggested topics:

- Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) Review

- Joint ccNSO/GNSO IDN group (JIG)

- ccTLD fast track

Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org

http://gnso.icann.org