RE: [council] Proposed motion on Rec 6 CWG

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This motion is too late isn't it? It came to my inbox at 3:00 UTC 1Dec.
And I am just now up and able to review it. Given upcoming travel, need
to vet with SGs or Cs, we should be very strict about the deadline,
IMHO.

Tim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [council] Proposed motion on Rec 6 CWG
> From: "Mary Wong" <Mary.Wong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, November 30, 2010 9:02 pm
> To: <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hello again everyone
>  
> I'd like to propose a motion for the Council's consideration at the 8 
> December meeting. This motion relates to the recommendations made recently by 
> the cross-community working group (CWG) regarding implementation of the 
> Council's Recommendation 6 (which formed the basis for the "morality and 
> public order" section of the DAG.)
>  
> You'll recall that the Council supported GNSO participation in the CWG, in a 
> resolution passed on 8 September. As you may also recall, the CWG's task 
> included making recommendations that would render the MAPO section of the DAG 
> acceptable to the broader community, yet still accomplishing the 
> implementation of Recommendation 6. 
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> 
> I understand that there is concern amongst some Council members that 
> continuing a cross-community working group model will in some way diminish 
> the GNSO's role in policy development and/or impinge on Consensus Policies. 
> This concern is part of a wider discussion that to my mind is not implicated 
> by the Rec 6 CWG process or recommendations, in relation to which the much 
> more pressing concern is to ensure that the ICANN Board, staff and community 
> do NOT interpret the Council's silence and inactivity, following the 
> original September motion, as lack of GNSO community support for the CWG's 
> recommendations. 
>  
> Thus, I propose a motion, as follows:
>  
> WHEREAS, on 8 September 2010 the GNSO Council endorsed GNSO participation in 
> a  joint working group with other interested Supporting Organizations 
> (SO�s) and Advisory Committee (AC�s) to provide guidance to the ICANN new 
> gTLD Implementation Team and the ICANN Board in relation to the 
> implementation of the Council's Recommendation 6 regarding strings that 
> contravene generally-accepted legal norms relating to morality and public 
> order that are recognized under international principles of law;
>  
> WHEREAS, the Recommendation 6 cross-community working group (CWG) 
> was established in accordance with the Terms of Reference also approved by 
> the GNSO Council on 8 September 2010;
>  
> AND WHEREAS, the CWG has since delivered a set of recommendations regarding 
> implementation of the GNSO Council's Recommendation 6 for new gTLDs to the 
> ICANN Board and community;
>  
> RESOLVED, the Council thanks the CWG and its participants, from the GNSO and 
> other SOs and the ACs, for their hard work; and acknowledges that the CWG 
> recommendations do not constitute Consensus Policy or GNSO policy development 
> otherwise within the purview of the GNSO;
>  
> RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Council hereby endorses the CWG recommendations as 
> representing. as far as possible, consensus among the various stakeholders in 
> the ICANN community on effective mechanisms for the implementation of 
> Recommendation 6.
>  
> Thanks and cheers
> Mary
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> Mary W S Wong
> Professor of Law
> Chair, Graduate IP Programs
> UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
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> Selected writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: 
> http://ssrn.com/author=437584
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