Dear All,
Please find the proposed
GNSO Council Agenda for the meeting on Thursday, 7 October at 15:00 UTC below
and also posted at:
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-council-07oct10-en.htm
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?proposed_agenda_7_october_2010
This agenda was established according to the GNSO Council
Operating Procedures approved 5 August 2010 for the GNSO Council.
http://gnso.icann.org/council/gnso-op-procedures-05aug10-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 15:00 UTC
See the
following and http://www.timeanddate.com/ for other times:
08:00 PDT; 10:00 CDT; 11:00 EST; 12:00 Buenos Aires; 12:00 Brazil; 17:00 CET;
19:00 Moscow, 20:00 Karachi, 23:00 Hong Kong,
Friday, 8 October
00:00 Tokyo, 01:00 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.
GNSO Council meeting
audiocast
http://stream.icann.org:8000/gnso.m3u
Item
1: Administrative matters (15 minutes)
1.1 Roll
call of Council members and polling for Disclosures of Interest
•
Per the GNSO Operating Procedures, Section 5.4, we are required to poll
Councilors regarding “any direct or indirect interests that may affect a
Relevant Party’s judgment on an issue that is under review,
consideration, or discussion” in this meeting.
Here is the definition provided in the proecedures:
“Disclosure
of Interest: Relevant to a specific issue at a specific time. A written
statement made by a Relevant Party of direct and indirect interests that may be
commercial (e.g. monetary payment) or non-commercial (e.g. non-tangible benefit
such as publicity, political or academic visibility) and may affect, or be
perceived to affect, the Relevant Party's judgment on a specific issue.”
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:
• 8 September 2010 meeting (insert link) – Scheduled for Approval
on 30 September 2010.
Item 2: Suggested
Improvements for GNSO Public Council meetings (10 minutes)
2.1 Proposed recommendations (Wendy Seltzer)
2 .2 Discussion
Item 3: New gTLD
Recommendation 6 Community WG (25 minutes)
3.1 Summary of Report (Margie Milam)
3.2 Discussion
3.3 GNSO Comments
•
Summary of comments on Council list to date (Margie Milam)
• Additional comments
• Should we submit comments from the Council or from individual
SGs/Constituencies?
• Next steps?
o Possible Council action on 28 October (if needed)?
3.4 Special thanks to the Rec6 CWG and to Margie & Marika for their
incredible support.
Item 4: Excerpt from
Draft Final Report - New gTLD Applicant Support (JAS) WG (15 minutes)
4.1 Brief Summary of Report (Rafik Dammak)
4.2 Discussion
4.3 GNSO Comments
• Should we submit comments from the Council or from individual
SGs/Constituencies?
• Next steps?
o Possible Council action on 28 October (if needed)?
4.4 Special thanks to the JAS WG members
Item 5: GNSO
Prioritization (20 minutes)
5.1 Refer to posted project ratings:
5.2 Key points made in the 15 July Council meeting (from meeting minutes):
• “. . . not a useful exercise, not much was learnt, should not
proceed further with the prioritization exercise.”
• “. . . spending more time on the exercise will not accomplish
useful results.”
• “It was a difficult exercise, policy matters were not prioritized
and the core issue, management of the workload, still has not been
resolved.”
• “The exercise was intended as a first step and not intended to
solve the workload management; other steps are needed. The exercise contributed
an important degree of common awareness and dissent to the group.”
• “The prioritization process could be improved with further input
from the Councilors and stakeholder groups.”
• “The exercise is important and informative from a staff
perspective and the Council needs to look at a two-step process going forward:
step one - form a small team to improve the process used to date drawing on
input received; step two - develop a process to manage the workload with input
from staff of the resources being used to support each of the working groups,
which will reflect both staff and community efforts.”
• “Support was expressed for continuing the prioritization work,
but linking it to the overall ICANN Staff and Community workload and to the
Budget process.”
• “The question of available resources should be looked at in
context. The Vertical Integration working group as an example of one that would
not normally have commenced with all the work before Council, yet it did and
the community resources were available.”
• “Some believe that work should be prioritized but the methodology
chosen is not the most appropriate or efficient.”
5.3 Next Steps
•
Staff Utilization Analysis targeted for 26 August meeting (Liz Gasster)
• Results of Adobe Connect Poll regarding possible next steps:
o Option 1: Spend no more time on prioritization - 5 votes (33%)
o Option 2: Develop a plan for using the results to manage the workload in the
near term - 2 votes (13%)
o Option 3: Form a drafting team with the task of developing a new process - 0
votes (0%)
o Option 4: Form a drafting team with the task of improving the process - 1
vote (7%)
o Option 5: Other? (including combinations of options 2, 3, and or 4) - 7 votes
(47%)
•
Discussion?
• Action Items
Item
6: Selections for the AoC SSR & Whois Policies RTs (10 minutes)
6.1 Refer to:
•
GNSO AoC Reviews site: http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/
• GNSO SSR RT site: http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/dns-ssr-en.htm
• GNSO Whois RT site: http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/whois-policies-en.htm
6.2 Selections by Rod Beckstrom & Heather Dryden
|
CSG |
NCSG |
RrSG |
RySG |
SSR
Primary |
Jeff
Brueggeman |
David
Cake (Australia) |
Rick
Wilhelm |
Ken
Silva |
Whois
Primary |
Susan
Kawaguchi |
Kim
G. Von Arx |
James
Bladel |
Kathy
Kleiman |
(Insert link to
announcement)
6.3 Discussion?
Item
7: Report from Board Retreat? (10 Minutes)
7.1 Refer to (insert link if any)
7.2 Action items?
Item 8: Status of
Continued Action Items (10 Minutes)
8.1 Drafting team for draft DNS-CERT/SSR WG charter (Chuck Gomes)
8.2 Standing committee to monitor GNSO Improvements implementation (Glen de
Saint Géry)
•
Volunteers to date: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben (ISCPC), Tatyana Khramtsova (RrSG), Ray
Fassett (RySG), Avri Doria (NCSG), Rudi Vansnick (NCSG), Philip Sheppard (CBUC)
• Feedback from Steering Committees (Liz Gasster)
• Next steps? Charter?
8.3 High Level Progress of House/Stakeholder Group Elections
•
Councilors
• Chair & Vice Chair Nominations
• NCA Assignments
8.4 Whois
Studies
• Status report for Whois Studies 3 & 4 (Liz Gasster)
Item
9: Other Business (5 minutes)
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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Local time between March and October, Summer in the NORTHERN
hemisphere
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Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) 15:00UTC
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California, USA (PST) UTC-8+1DST 08:00
Cedar Rapids, USA (CDT) UTC-6+1DST 10:00
New York/Washington DC, USA (EDT) UTC-5+1DST 11:00
Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 12:00
Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo Brazil UTC-3+0DST 12:00
Dublin, Ireland (GMT) UTC+1DST 16:00
Darmstadt, Germany (CET) UTC+1+1DST 17:00
Paris, France (CET) UTC+1+1DST 17:00
Moscow, Russian Federation (MSK) UTC+3+1DST 19:00
Karachi, Pakistan UTC+5+0DST 20:00
Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 23:00
Tokyo, Japan UTC+9+0DST 00:00
Melbourne/Sydney Australia (EDT) UTC+10+0DST 01:00 (Friday)
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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
http://gnso.icann.org