Dear Councillors,
In preparation for the GNSO Council
Teleconference on WEDNESDAY, 21 April 2010 at 11:00 UTC. please find the Agenda
below.
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-21apr10-en.htm
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?proposed_agenda_21_april_2010
Note the Council motions are posted at :
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?21_april_motions
This agenda was established according to
the GNSO Council Operating Procedures approved 28 October 2009 for the GNSO
Council.
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/operating-procedures-revised-draft-clean-09oct09-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.
Meeting Time 11:00 UTC
See the following and http://www.timeanddate.com/ for other
times:
04:00 PDT; 06:00 CDT; 07:00 EDT; 08:00 Buenos Aires; 08:00
Brazil; 13:00 CEST; 15:00 Moscow; 16:00 Pakistan; 19:00 Hong Kong; 20:00 Tokyo,
21:00 Melbourne
Dial-in numbers will be sent individually to Council
members. Councilors should notify the GNSO Secretariat in advance if a dial out
call is needed.
Please click on the link to join the GNSO Council Adobe
Connect room
http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/gnsocouncil/
Please enter as a 'guest'.
Item 1: Administrative matters (10 minutes)
1.1 Roll call of Council members
1.2 Update any statements of interest
1.3 Review/amend agenda
1.4. Note the status of minutes for the previous Council
meeting per the GNSO Operating Procedures:
•1 April 2010 meeting – Approved 16 April 2010
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-council-01apr10-en.htm
Item 2: GNSO Improvements (20 Minutes)
2.1 OSC Communication & Coordination (CCT) WT
Recommendations
2.1.1 Refer to CCT WT Report Part 1:
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/cct-consolidated-report-final-09apr10-en.pdf
2.1.2 Overview of recommendations (Julie Hedlund)
2.1.3 Discussion
2.1.4 Motion:
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?21_april_motions
2.1.5 Vote
(Note that absentee voting will not be allowed on these
motions.)
Item 3: Prioritization of GNSO work (30 minutes)
3.1 Refer to Recommendations by the Work Prioritization
Model Drafting Team (WPM-DT):
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/wpmg-section-6-and-annex-09apr10-en.pdf
3.2 Overview of Recommendations (Olga Cavalli/Ken Bour)
3.3 Discussion
3.4 Next steps?
3.4.1 Motion
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?21_april_motions
3.4.2 Vote
(Note that absentee voting will not be allowed on this
motion.)
Item 4: Whois Studies (25 minutes)
4.1 Refer to:
•Whois Studies Report:
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?whois_discussion#
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-studies-report-for-gnso-23mar10-en.pdf
•Public comment site for the Framework for ICANN's FY11
Operating Plan and Budget:
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201004-en.htm#op-budget-fy2011
(Note that the comment period ended 1 April 2010.)
•Public comment: Draft NORC Report on Whois Accuracy,
(comment period ends 15 April 2010)
Presentation Slides from 1 April 2010 Council meeting:
http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/whois-studies-presentation-01apr10-en.pdf
Follow-up to WHOIS Studies discussion on 1 April 2010
prepared by Liz Gasster, 5 April 2010:
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-follow-up-discussion-05apr10-en.pdf
4.2 Summary of proposals for Whois Study budget requests
from the GNSO (Liz Gasster)
4.3 Discussion
4.4 Motion
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?21_april_motions
4.4.1 Discussion
4.4.2 Vote
Note: 1) a final budget has to be finished by 17 May and
there are currently no funds budgeted for Whois Studies;
2) Absentee voting will not be
allowed for this motion
Item 5: Joint SO/AC WG to develop a sustainable
approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying
for and operating new gTLDs (5 Minutes)
5.1 Status update (Chuck)
•So far, GAC and ALAC plan to participate
•Olof Nordling will be the lead New gTLD Implementation Team
Staff person supporting this WG
5.2 Request for GNSO participants
Item 6: Other Business (20 minutes)
6.1 GNSO Comments regarding the FY11 Operating Plan and
Budget?
6.2 AGP Policy questions (Craig Schwartz)
•Should the Council consider modifying the AGP Limits Policy
to no longer require semi-annual updates?
•Should the Council consider modifying the AGP Limits Policy
by defining the terms “extraordinary circumstances” or “reoccur regularly? For
example:
◦Should instances of
consumer fraud automatically be a legitimate use of AGP deletes?
◦If a registrar
proactively takes down (i.e., deletes) domains that are known to propagate a
fraudulent activity such as phishing, should the registrar bear the cost if the
deletions cause the registrar to exceed the threshold defined in the Policy?
6.2.1 Follow-up actions?
6.3 Mike Rodenbaugh motion regarding the VeriSign .net
Registry Services proposal for a Domain Name Exchange service
6.3.1 Refer to the motion at
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?21_april_motions
6.3.2 Discussion
6.3.3 Vote
(Note that absentee voting will not apply.)
6.4 Reminder : The Council motion passed on 18 February
included the following task : ‘the Affirmation of Commitments Review Drafting
Team is requested to continue its work to develop a longer-term process for
Council consideration in April’.
6.4.1 Status report (Bill Drake)
6.4.2 Action items?
6.5 Should the GNSO Council submit comments regarding
‘Report of Possible Process Options for Further Consideration of the ICM
Application for the .XXX sTLD’ ? (Note that comments are due by 10 May.)
6.6 Request for provisional Trusted Community
Representatives (TCRs) for the root key generation and signing ceremonies :
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12apr10-en.htm
•Note the very short window for expressions of interest :
Friday, 23 April.
6.7 Any other business?
Item 7 Status updates (5 minutes)
7.1 Questions/comments on written status updates sent in
advance by leaders of Working Groups, Work Teams, staff projects, etc.?
Status updates:
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/notes-council-21april10-en.htm
Item 8: The updated GNSO Project Status List (5
minutes)
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf
8.1 Questions/comments?
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.
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Tokyo, Japan UTC+9+0DST 20:00
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The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October 2010, 2:00 or
3:00 local time (with exceptions)
Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Glen
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org