[council] GNSO Council motions for Wednesday 8 December

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,



The following motions were passed by the GNSO Council at its meeting in 
Cartagena on Thursday 8 December 2010.

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,



Glen



1. Motion to Terminate The Policy Development Process on Vertical Integration 
Between Registries and Registrars.



Whereas, on 28 January 2010, the GNSO Council approved a policy development 
process (PDP) on the topic of vertical integration between registries and 
registrars;



Whereas, the VI Working Group has published its Interim Report and has 
presented it to the GNSO Council on 9 November 2010, describing the results of 
the first phase of its deliberations;

Whereas, the Working Group is unable to reach a consensus on any 
recommendations for the GNSO Council to consider with regard to vertical 
integration and cross-ownership between Registrars and Registries in time for 
the first round of new gTLD applications (Phase I);

Whereas, in the absence of guidance from the GNSO Council, the ICANN Board has 
voted to allow new gTLD registries to own registrars, and has opted not to 
create new rules prohibiting registrars from applying for or operating new gTLD 
registries;

With the publication of the Interim Report, the VI Working Group has suspended 
its activities pending further instructions from the GNSO Council; and

Whereas, in light of these recent developments, the GNSO Council desires to 
terminate the PDP on Vertical Integration between Registries and Registrars.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:



RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council recognizes that, in light of these recent 
developments, there is no longer a need or desire to pursue further policy 
development activities with respect to this issue;



RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council formally ends the PDP on Vertical 
Integration between Registries and Registrars without making any 
recommendations for specific policy changes to ICANN's Board of Directors;



RESOLVED FURTHER, that the VI PDP Working Group is hereby disbanded. The GNSO 
Council appreciates the hard work and tremendous effort shown by each member of 
the VI PDP Working group in producing the Interim Report, and sincerely thanks 
the Co-Chairs, Mike O'Connor and Roberto Gaetano, for their leadership in this 
PDP.



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 
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, the Council recommends that each Stakeholder Group and 
Constituency provide feedback as soon as possible on the CWG's recommendations 
to the Council.

3.  Proposed motion on 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 
draft AGB.)
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   
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, the Council recommends that each Stakeholder Group  and 
constituency provide feedback as soon as possible to the Council,  on the CWG 
recommendations.

3. MOTION APPROVING THE DRAFT CHARTER OF THE JOINT DNS SECURITY AND STABILITY 
ANALYSIS WORKING GROUP (DSSA-WG)



WHEREAS, at their meetings during the ICANN Brussels meeting in June 2010 the 
At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Country Code Names Supporting 
Organization (ccNSO), the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), the 
Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), and the Number Resource Organization 
(NRO) acknowledged the need for a better understanding of the security and 
stability of the global domain name system (DNS);

WHEREAS, this issue is considered to be of common interest to the participating 
Supporting Organisations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs) and others, and 
should be preferably undertaken in a collaborative effort;

WHEREAS, the ALAC, ccNSO, GNSO and NRO agreed to establish a Joint DNS Security 
and Stability Analysis Working Group (DSSA-WG), in accordance with each 
organization's own rules and procedures and invite other AC's to liaise and 
engage with the DSSA-WG in a manner they consider to be appropriate;



WHEREAS, a Drafting Team of the Chairs of the ccNSO, the ALAC, and the GNSO, 
along with interested representatives from those organizations, produced a 
Draft Charter and posted it for the review of the participating SOs and ACs on 
15 November 2010 at 
http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/dssa-draft-charter-12nov10-en.pdf;



NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:



RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council approves this Draft Charter and encourages GNSO 
constituencies, stakeholder groups, and other GNSO participants to identify 
possible participants of the DSSA-WG with demonstrated expertise in the 
objectives of the Draft Charter.





4. Motion to extend the Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) and the 
Operations Steering Committee (OSC) charters.


Whereas in October 2008, the GNSO Council established a framework for 
implementing the various GNSO Improvements identified and approved by the ICANN 
Board of Directors (see - GNSO Council Improvements Implementation Plan)

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvementsimplementation-plan-16oct08.pdf;

Whereas that framework included the formation of two Steering Committees the 
Operations Steering Committee and the Policy Process Steering Committee - to 
charter and coordinate the efforts of five community work teams designed to 
develop specific recommendations to implement specific aspects of the 
improvements;

Whereas the Council intended the charters of the committees (and their 
attendant work teams) to be temporary and not to extend beyond the 2009 annual 
ICANN meeting without specific action by the Council;



Whereas the Council has now twice extended the terms of those committees to 
allow the GNSO community implementation recommendations work to continue (see -

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-council-24sep09.htm and

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-council-10mar10-en.htm);



Whereas the Council acknowledges the hard work of those work teams and notes 
that those committees and their teams are diligently continuing their work;



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



Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

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