Dear Councillors, Attached and in plain text below, please find the draft GNSO Council agenda for Thursday, 16 April 2009. The agenda is also posted on the Wiki at: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?agenda_16_april_2009 The motions are posted on the Wiki at: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?16_april_motions Please note the change of time to 14:00 UTC. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Kind regards, Glen .............................................................................. Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 16 April 2009 http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-16april09.shtml Item 0: Roll call of Council members (5 mins) Item 1: Update any statements of interest (5 mins) Item 2: Review/amend agenda (5 mins) Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes (5 mins) GNSO Council minutes 26 March 2009 http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg06583.html Item 4: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part A Policy Development Process (PDP) (deferred from previous meeting) (20 mins) - 4.1 Staff Presentation of IRTP Part A PDPFinal Report http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/irtp-part-a-report-presentation-16apr09... - 4.2 Vote See motion on the Wiki page: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?16_april_motions Item 5: Motion on next round of IRTP issues to address (15 mins) See motion on the Wiki page: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?16_april_motions Item 6: Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) Motion Action Items (continued from previous meeting) (Council) (10 mins) Resolution approved on 4 March: http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/ Resolved: The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pd... and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March 6, 2009; http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm#09 Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later than July 31 2009; and Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the RAA and to identify those on which further action may be desirable. The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later than July 31, 2009. Item 7: Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Policy Development Process (PDP) decision (Alan Greenberg/Drafting Team) (10 mins) Proposed Motion on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Whereas on 05 December 2008, the GNSO received an Issues Report on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR); Whereas on 29 January 2009 the GNSO Council decided to form a Drafting Team (DT) to consider the form of policy development action in regard to PEDNR; Whereas a DT has formed and its members have discussed and reviewed the issues documented in the Issues Report; Whereas the DT has concluded that although some further information gathering may be needed, it should be done under the auspices of a PDP; Whereas staff has suggested and the DT concurs that the issue of registrar transfer during the RGP might be better handled during the IRTP Part C PDP. The GNSO Council RESOLVES to initiate a Policy Development Process (PDP) to address the issues identified in the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Issues Report. The charter of the Task Force or Working Group charged with carrying out this PDP should include a mandate to consider both Consensus Policy recommendations as well as recommendations regarding best practices, ICANN compliance obligations and possible RAA changes, all associated with staff recommendations in the Issues Report section 4.2. Specifically, consideration of the following questions: . Whether adequate opportunity exists for registrants to redeem their expired domain names; . Whether expiration-related provisions in typical registration agreements are clear and conspicuous enough; . Whether adequate notice exists to alert registrants of upcoming expirations; . Whether additional measures need to be implemented to indicate that once a domain name enters the Auto-Renew Grace Period, it has expired (e.g., hold status, a notice on the site with a link to information on how to renew, or other options to be determined). . Whether to allow the transfer of a domain name during the RGP. The GNSO Council further resolves that the issue of logistics of possible registrar transfer during the RGP shall be incorporated into the charter of the IRTP Part C charter. Item 8: Whois service requirements motion (10 mins) See motion on the Wiki page: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?16_april_motions Item 9: Motion on Travel Funding (10 mins) See motion on the Wiki page: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?16_april_motions Item 10: New Bylaw discussion (10 mins) Item 11: Status Updates (15 mins) 11 . 1 Board Update http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm 11. 2 ccNSO Liaison update 11. 3 Geographical Region WG update 11. 4 Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) status update http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm#07 11. 5 Joint GNSO/ccNSO group to discuss coordination of timing for IDN TLDs (Avri Doria /Chris Disspain) update 11. 6 Policy Items 11. 6. 1. Working Groups 11. 6. 1. 1. Fast Flux 11. 6. 1. 2. Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) 11. 6. 2. Drafting Teams 11. 6. 2.1. Travel Policy Drafting Team - Travel Database for Sydney http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg06424.html 11. 6. 2. 2. Response to IDN ccTLD Fast Track 11. 6. 3 GNSO Improvement Work Teams 11. 6. 3. 1 Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) Policy Development Process (PDP) work team (WT) 11. 6. 3. 2. PPSC Working Group work team WGWT 11. 6. 3. 3. Operations Steering Committee (OSC) Communications coordination work team 11. 6. 3. 4. OSC Constituency operations work team 11. 6. 3. 5. OSC GNSO Council operations work team 11. 7. Restructuring group http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf - deadlines to be met Item 12: AOB (07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 1600 Brussels, 00:00 Melbourne next day) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local time between March and October, Summer in the NORTHERN hemisphere ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC 14:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- California, USA (PST) UTC-7+1DST 07:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EST) UTC-4+1DST 10:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 11:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-3+0DST 11:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+1DST 15:00 Brussels, Belgium (CET) UTC+1+1DST 16:00 Paris, France (CET) UTC+1+1DST 16:00 Barcelona, Spain (CET) UTC+1+1DST 16:00 Karachi, Pakistan UTC+5+0DST 20:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 22:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 22:00 Melbourne, Australia (EDT) UTC+10+0DST 00:00 (Friday) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October 2009, 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@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org