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 11:00 UTC
Coordinated Universal Time:11:00 UTC - see below for local times
(03:00 Los Angeles, 06:00 Washington DC, 11:00 London, 12:00 Brussels, 22:00 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 (10 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 procedures: - GNSO Project Decision Making
- Registration Abuse Policies
- Post Expiration Domain Name Recovery
- New gTLD Applicant Guidebook
"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."
The main issues for this meeting are:
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:
- 13 January 2011 Council minutes – Approved on 31 January 2011.
Item 2: Pending Projects – Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) (15 minutes)
Update on Working Group's progress. Working Group (WG) was started on November 20, 2008. WG is chaired by Alan Greenberg. Refer to GNSO Pending Projects list http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf.
2.1: Update on WG - Alan Greenberg, WG Chair.
2.2: Discussion
2.3: Next steps
Item 3: Operations Steering Committee (OSC) and Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) and new Standing Committee (20 Minutes)
Refer to motion passed in Cartagena meeting
(Motion 6 Motion to extend the Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) and the Operations Steering Committee (OSC)charters).
http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions#201012
Especially resolve clauses.
RESOLVED, The Council extends the terms of the Operations Steering Committee and the Policy Process Steering Committee and their respective work teams as necessary through the ICANN public meeting in June 2011.
RESOLVED, the Council acknowledges and thanks the OSC, the PPSC and the five community work teams for their hard work; and directs each steering committee and applicable work team chair to identify for the Council any remaining targets and benchmarks for their respective work by no later than 19 January 2011, including expected deadlines for final delivery.
RESOLVED FURTHER, a drafting team shall be established no later than 19 January 2011, to draft a charter for a Standing Committee to track and coordinate implementation of those OSC, PPSC and work team recommendations already approved by the Council and adopted, as recommended by the Communications and Coordination Work Team in its final report of 9 April 2010
3.1 Establish Drafting Team (DT) for new Standing Committee
- Volunteers?
- DT Chair?
Philip Sheppard volunteered to chair
- DT start-up
Refer to staff suggestion: it may be helpful to provide preliminary guidance concerning the purpose, scope, role, composition, etc., of the Standing Committee. For example, is it the Council's intention that the Standing Committee track/follow up on adopted GNSO Improvement recommendations or should its mandate also encompass operational issues arising from the implementation of the recommendations?
The GNSO Council could consider asking the DT, as its first task, to outline alternative approaches that a Standing Committee could take and submit them for Council review and discussion along with a recommendation. Following completion of that task, the Council could then select the most appropriate model, which would guide the DT's charter development work.
Avri Doria (NCSG)
Mary Wong (NCSG)
Wolf-Ulrich Knoben (ISPCP)
Philip Sheppard (CBUC)
Others?
- Discussion
3.2 Update on OSC work – Philip Sheppard, OSC Chair
3.3 Update on PPSC work – Jeff Neuman, PPSC Chair
3.4 Discussion
3.5 Next steps?
3.6 Updating OSC Recommendation for Proxies in the GNSO Operating Procedures
- Bill Drake has volunteered to lead
- Update
Item 4: Joint Applicant Support Working Group (20 minutes)
Refer to motion passed in previous meeting
http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201101
Refer to action item from previous meeting:
"Discuss the way forward given there are now two different charters for the JAS working group, one approved by the ALAC and one approved by the GNSO Council."
4.1: Would ALAC be open to accepting the charter as amended by the GNSO? Report from ALAC Liaison - Alan Greenberg
4.2: Discussion
4.3: Next steps
Item 5: Cartagena Board Resolution on Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation (15 minutes)
Refer to Board resolution:
http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-10dec10-en.htm#6
Refer to action item from previous meeting: The Council agreed that Rosemary Sinclair would liaise with Bruce Tonkin and then the Council would consider whether it should send a letter to the Board saying the GNSO does not have the resources to undertake this work.
5.1 Update from Rosemary Sinclair
5.2 Discussion
5.3 Next steps?
Item 6: Recommendations re. Registration Abuse Policy (RAP) (20 minutes)
Refer to letter from RAP team
http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/rap-idt-to-gnso-council-15nov10-en.pdf
Refer to motion in response to the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAP WG) final report, deferred from previous meeting.(motion 1)
https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?3_february_motions
6.1 Discussion
6.2 Vote (Resolve clause 1: standard threshold applies. Resolve clause 2: create an Issues Report: requires an affirmative vote of more than 25% vote of each House or majority of one House)
Item 7: Status of Stakeholder Group and Constituency statements on Recommendation 6 (10 minutes)
Refer to action item from previous meeting: Compile the constituency/stakeholder group comments and submit to the Board.
7.1 Update on Rec6 CWG (Margie Milam)
7.2 Discussion and feedback from Stakeholder Groups and constituencies
7.3 Confirmation of compilation of constituency/stakeholder group comments and submission to the Board (Margie Milam)
Item 8: Any Other Business (10 Minutes)
8.1 Update from Staff on goals, expected outcomes and organization of GAC/Board February meeting in Brussels (Staff).
8.2 Status of San Francisco planning (Olga Cavalli).
8.3 CSG vice chair election results (Olga Cavalli)
8.4 Joint DNS security and stability analysis working group (DSSA-WG)
Current GNSO volunteers:
- Zahid Jamil (CBUC)
- Scott McCormick (CBUC)
- Greg Aaron (Afilias, RySG)
- Keith Drazek (Verisign, RySG)
- Rafik Dammak (NCSG)
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:
- Create an Issues Report: requires an affirmative vote of more than 25% vote of each House or majority of one House;
- 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;
- 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");
- 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;
- Approve a PDP Recommendation With a GNSO Supermajority: requires an affirmative vote of a GNSO Supermajority; and
- 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:
- Initiate a policy development process;
- Forward a policy recommendation to the Board;
- Recommend amendments to the ICANN Bylaws;
- 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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