Glen - I believe it is incorrect to say that motion 1 (IGO DRP PDP) was passed. Please correct me if I am wrong on this.
Councilors - In our rush to get Resolution 4 (Whois) done, I think there are two things we missed: 1) the 15 February deadline should have been put at the end of item 3 of of resolution paragraph 3; 2) as requested by Ross without any objection by others as far as I can recall, we should have included identification of policy issues as the first step in the sequentional action items so that it should have said the following:
"3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development including, but not limited to, ensuring appropriate privacy safeguards for natural persons, lawful access to data for rights enforcement, consumer protection, law enforcement and anti-crime purposes and will immediately initiate the following sequential actions: 1) Council shall identify the policy issues that need additional work; 2)Council shall provide additional definition regarding the potential data gathering and study requirements, 3) staff shall provide the Council with rough cost estimates for various components of data gathering and studies, 4) the Council will decide what data gathering and studies would be pursued; and 5) staff will perform the resulting data gathering and studies and report the results back to the Council; actions 1) through 4) should be completed no later than 15 February 2008"
My guess is that if we want to make the changes I noted above, that we would have to act on the modified motion at our next meeting.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:33 PM
To: 'Council GNSO'
Subject: [council] GNSO Council resolutions 31 October 2007
Dear Council Members,
Ahead of the complete minutes, please find the resolutions
that were passed by the GNSO Council Open Meeting in LA on
Wednesday 31 October 2007.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Glen
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GNSO Council Open Meeting in LA agenda
Resolution 1
Whereas, the Council has previously requested and received
both the 15 June 2007 "GNSO Issues Report on Dispute Handling
for IGO Names and Abbreviations"
5jun07.pdf
and the 28 September 2007 "Staff Report on Draft IGO Domain
Name Dispute Resolution Procedure;"
and
Whereas, the Council believes that further work on the draft
IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure is appropriate
before voting on whether to initiate a policy development
process on this issue; and
Whereas, the Intellectual Property Constituency is willing to
lead a small ad hoc group to review and consider a proposed
draft dispute resolution procedure,
Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Council authorizes
the creation of a small ad hoc group of interested informed
and representative stakeholders and members of the GAC to
review, consider and propose as appropriate revisions to the
Draft IGO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure set forth
in the Staff Report, and instructs the ad hoc group to report
to the Council with its recommendations not later than 15
February 2008.
Resolution 2.
Whereas the issues report on Domain Tasting
g-report-14jun07.pdf
has been released and discussed
and
Whereas, the GNSO Council acknowledges the Final Outcomes
Report of the ad hoc group on Domain Tasting,
s-report-final.pdf
the Council hereby initiates a Policy Development Process,
and pursuant to Sections 4 and 8 of Annex A of the Bylaws,
The GNSO council resolves to initiate a PDP to address the
issues set forth in the Issues Report by Staff and in the
Outcomes Report of the ad hoc group and encourages staff to
apply ICANN's fee collections to names registered and
subsequently deregistered during the add-grace period.
Resolution 3.
Whereas, the GNSO Council has resolved to initiate a Policy
Development Process on Domain Tasting, and pursuant to
Sections 4 and 8 of Annex A of the Bylaws, resolves as follows:
1. To request that each constituency appoint a representative to
solicit the constituency's views on the issues presented in
the Issues Report by Staff and in the Outcomes Report of the
ad hoc group. Each such representative is asked to submit a
Constituency Statement to the ICANN staff manager within
thirty-five (35) calendar days of this resolution.
2. To request that ICANN Staff take all Constituency
Statements, the
two prior reports, and other information and compile (and
post on the Comment Site) an Initial Report within fifty (50)
calendar days of this resolution.
3. Thereafter, the PDP shall follow the provisions of Item 9 of
Annex A of the Bylaws, in creating a Final Report for Council.
Resolution 4.
WHEREAS;
1. The GNSO Council has recently received the Whois Working
Group final report
and;
2. The GNSO Council acknowledges that the broad range of
stakeholders with interests in this issue has lead to a wide
range of views of what the policy issues are and how to best
address those policy issues with solutions that can be
supported by the consensus of the community, and;
3. The GNSO Council observes that the Working Group failed to
reach agreement on several of the key issues identified in
the charter of the Working Group,
ing-group-charter-16apr07.pdf
and;
4. That broadly, the scope of the issues in this area have
evolved substantially over the term of this Policy
Development Process since it was originally chartered, and;
5. A comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding
of key factual issues regarding the gTLD Whois system will
benefit future GNSO policy development efforts, and;
6. The rights and requirements of natural persons, the legal
and business communities, anti-crime and law enforcement and
registrars in the areas of privacy, access, enforcement,
investigation, consumer protection and research would benefit
from future policy development by the GNSO.
THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the GNSO Council; 1. Sincerely
thanks all of the volunteers, advisors, consultants, staff,
stakeholders, observers and constituency participants who
have contributed to the GNSO's examination of Whois policy
over the last four years, and;
2. Formally ends the Policy Development Process on gTLD Whois
without making any recommendations for specific policy
changes to ICANN's Board of Directors, and;
3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development
including, but not limited to, ensuring appropriate privacy
safeguards for natural persons, lawful access to data for
rights enforcement, consumer protection, law enforcement and
anti-crime purposes and will immediately initiate the
following sequential actions: 1) Council shall provide
additional definition regarding the potential data gathering
and study requirements 2) staff shall provide the Council
with rough cost estimates for various components of data
gathering and studies no later than February 15th, 2008;; 3)
the Council will decide what data gathering and studies would
be pursued; and 4) staff will perform the resulting data
gathering and studies and report the results back to the Council .
4. May initiate policy development activities in this area,
as supported by the findings of the data-gathering and study
activities upon their completion.
Resolution 5
Whereas Dr Liz Williams, as Senior Policy Counselor for
ICANN, has been the ICANN Staff Manager assigned to support
the GNSO's Policy Development Process (PDP) on new gTLDs,
since December 2005.
Whereas this PDP trialled a number of new approaches in GNSO
policy development, including the use of inter-sessional
face-to-face meetings, calls for formal papers with the
ability for the authors to present those papers and have
dialog with the committee, and the use of working groups to
analyse topics such as IDNs, reserved names, and protecting
the rights of others. The success of the working groups became the
foundation of the Board Governance Committee's GNSO Review
Working Group recommendations on using working groups as the
main approach for policy development.
Whereas Liz worked tirelessly to secure support for many of
these initiatives, and pull together a huge amount of public
input, meeting transcripts, and GNSO constituency
contributions into a final set of principles,
recommendations, and guidelines, along with a large range of
supporting material that will assist the ICANN staff in
implementing the policy.
Whereas Liz completed the final report on the policy for new
gTLDs in August 2007, finished her term of office with ICANN
in September 2007.
It is resolved that the GNSO expresses its sincere gratitude
for her service to the ICANN community and wishes her every
success in her next endeavours.
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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org