Dear Councillors,
Please find the GNSO Council agenda for
the meeting on Thursday, 7 January 2010 in plain text below and posted on the
website at:
http://gnso.icann.org/
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-07jan10-en.htm
and on the Wiki at:
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?agenda_7_january_2010
Please note that all motions should be sent to the Council list not later
than Wednesday, 30 December 2009 to be considered at the Council
meeting on 7 January 2010. Motions will thereafter be posted on the Wiki for
easy reference.
Please review the updated GNSO
Project Status List
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf
which has been posted at
http://gnso.icann.org/
under the heading: GNSO Project
Status List
And inserted into the agenda, as well as
the written status updates at:
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/notes-council-07jan10-en.htm
GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda -
7 January 2010
This agenda was established according to the GNSO Council Operating Procedures
approved 28 October 2009 for the GNSO Council
Coordinated Universal Time: 20:00 UTC -
(see below for the full list and http://www.timeanddate.com for other times)
(10:00 HAST, 12:00 PST, 15:00 EST, 21:00
CET; 04:00 Hong Kong, 07:00 Melbourne Friday)
Chair: Chuck Gomes; Vice Chairs: Olga
Cavalli & Stéphane Van Gelder
Note: This meeting will be recorded.
Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins.
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.
Item 1: Administrative matters
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
following Council meetings per the new Council Operating Procedures:
•17 December meeting –
Approved on 31 December 2009
Item 2: Issues Report regarding
vertical separation of Registries and Registrars
2.1 Refer to Issues Report on Vertical
Integration:
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/vertical-integration/report-04dec09-en.pdf
2.2 Overview of Issues Report (Margie
Milam)
http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/issues-report-summary-17dec09-en.pdf
2.3 Discussion
2.4 Information about the ICANN
Consultation on New gTLD Registry Agreement on 7 January 2010 in D.C.?
2.5 Next steps
2.5.1 Action regarding decision on
whether or not to initiate a PDP – 28 Jan meeting?
Item 3: Prioritization of GNSO work
3.1 Status Report (Olga Cavalli)
3.2 Next steps?
Item 4: The IDN Implementation
Working Team Final Report
4.1 Refer to report at
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-implementation-working-team-report-final-03dec09-en.pdf
4.2 Brief overview of report (Bart
Boswinkel)
4.3 Action item: The working team report
recommends that the GNSO & ccNSO do policy work with regard to the
following two issues related to single-character IDN top level names:
1.selection of scripts for which single
character IDN TLDs should be allowed;
2.method for allocation of single
character IDN TLDs.
4.3.1 Discussion
4.3.2 Volunteers for working with ccNSO
volunteers to develop a draft charter?
Item 5: AGP Limits Policy -
Implementation Report
5.1 Refer to
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-14dec09-en.pdf
5.2 Discussion
5.3 Action items?
Item 6: Status updates
6.1 Items of interest to the GNSO from
the ccNSO (Olga Cavalli/Han Chuan Lee)
6.2 Other?
6.3 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-07jan10-en.htm
Item 7: AOB
7.1 Staff update on plans to ensure
safety and security in Nairobi
7.2 Other?
Item 8: The updated GNSO Project
Status List (formerly Pending Action Item List) is
at:
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:
a.Create an Issues Report: requires an
affirmative vote of more than 25% vote of each House or majority of one House;
b.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;
c.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”);
d.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;
e.Approve a PDP Recommendation With a
GNSO Supermajority: requires an affirmative vote of a GNSO Supermajority; and
f.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:
a.Initiate a policy development process;
b.Forward a policy recommendation to the
Board;
c.Recommend amendments to the ICANN
Bylaws;
d.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.
(12:00 Los Angeles, 15:00 Washington DC,
20:00 London, 21:00 Brussels, 07:00 Melbourne next day)
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Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
Glen
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org