GNSO Issues Report: .COM Agreement
Colleagues Please find attached the Issues Report on the .COM agreement which is an agenda item for next week's conference call. Kind regards. Liz Liz Williams Senior Policy Counselor ICANN +32 2 234 7874 tel +32 2 234 7848 fax +32 497 07 4243 mob
Please find attached the Issues Report on the .COM agreement which is an agenda item for next week's conference call.
While I think it may be *unwise* for the Council to get involved in contractual issues between ICANN and a registry or registrar, I don't agree that it's out-of-scope. In fact, I might turn the whole report on its head. Isn't the better answer that it is not 'properly within the scope of' ICANN's Staff's responsibilities to limit the ability of its policy bodies, like the GNSO, to make policy decisions? On what authority does Staff negotiate what is or isn't a "consensus policy" under Section III.1.(b) of the proposed Registry Contract? -- Bret
Liz - Thanks to you and Olof for preparing this document. Given the opinion of General Counsel that policy development applicable only to specific gTLD agreements is out of scope for ICANN and the GNSO, I would like clarified what bearing this new opinion has on past policy development (and the results of that policy development) that was only applicable to specific gTLD agreements. It would be helpful to have this clarified prior to the next Council call. Thank you again for your assistance. -ross Liz Williams wrote:
Colleagues
Please find attached the Issues Report on the .COM agreement which is an agenda item for next week's conference call.
Kind regards.
Liz Liz Williams Senior Policy Counselor ICANN +32 2 234 7874 tel +32 2 234 7848 fax +32 497 07 4243 mob
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Bret Fausett -
Liz Williams -
Ross Rader