GNSO Council Teleconference Minutes
| GNSO Council Meeting Minutes 7 May 2009
Proposed agenda and documents List of attendees: 16 Council Members Roll Call. Item 1: Update any Statements of Interest Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes: It was pointed out that the Working Group, once formed, could negotiate with the Council to amend the charter. Avri Doria and seconded by Chuck Gomes proposed the motion on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) as amended: Whereas on 05 December 2008, the GNSO received an Issues Report on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR); Whereas on 29 January 2009 the GNSO Council decided to form a Drafting Team (DT) to consider the form of policy development action in regard to PEDNR; Whereas a DT has formed and its members have discussed and reviewed the issues documented in the Issues Report; Whereas the DT has concluded that although some further information gathering may be needed, it should be done under the auspices of a PDP; Whereas staff has suggested and the DT concurs that the issue of registrar transfer during the RGP might be better handled during the IRTP Part C PDP. The GNSO Council RESOLVES To initiate a Policy Development Process (PDP) to address the issues identified in the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Issues Report. The charter for this PDP should instruct the Working Group: - that it should consider recommendations for best practices as well as or instead of recommendations for Consensus Policy; - that to inform its work it should pursue the availability of further information from ICANN compliance staff to understand how current RAA . Whether adequate opportunity exists for registrants to redeem their expired domain names; . Whether expiration-related provisions in typical registration agreements are clear and conspicuous enough; . Whether adequate notice exists to alert registrants of upcoming expirations; . Whether additional measures need to be implemented to indicate that once a domain name enters the Auto-Renew Grace Period, it has expired (e.g., hold status, a notice on the site with a link to information on how to renew, or other options to be determined). . Whether to allow the transfer of a domain name during the RGP. The GNSO Council further resolves that the issue of logistics of possible registrar transfer during the RGP shall be incorporated into the charter of the Cyril Chua, Ute Decker, Kristina Rosette, Tony Harris, Mike Rodenbaugh, Zahid Jamil, William Drake, Carlos Souza, Avri Doria, Terry Davis ( one vote each) Chuck Gomes, Edmon Chung, Jordi Iparraguirre, Tim Ruiz, Stéphane van Gelder (two votes each) [Absentee ballots were sent to eligible Councillors. Absent from voting: Greg Ruth, Tony Holmes (1 vote each) The motion passed. 25 Votes in favour. Item 5: Government Advisory Committee (GAC) Position Paper on Geographic Names There was not the same consensus at the second level and staff was directed to send a letter to the GAC by 17 March 2009 identifying the implementation issues that have been identified in association with the GAC's advice, in order to continue communications with the GAC to find a mutually acceptable solution. The Board requested a preliminary response by 24 April 2009 and a final report by 25 May 2009. Kurt Pritz referred to the GAC's response to Geographic Terms Protection that was also sent to the Supporting Organisation and Advisory Committee chairs and noted the narrow time frame for comments. Action Item Chuck Gomes commented that documenting the Council position would be a valuable attribute going into the meeting with the GAC in Sydney Item 6: Whois service requirements motion Item 7: Preparation for the Sydney meetings. In addition the overarching issues on new gTLDs, particularly the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) report and Geographic names at the first and second levels will be discussed. Sunday, 21 June 2009, at the end of the day, the GAC and GNSO will meet. Proposed agenda item is understanding the GAC perspective on Geographic names at the second level. Avri Doria proposed a doodle vote on several issues to decide on the topic for the Board/GNSO Council/staff dinner on Sunday evening. Monday, 22 June 2009, Avri Doria noted that there would be one Advisory Committee/Supporting Oganisation (AC/SO) meeting. The proposed topic is the roles and responsibilities of volunteers and staff and the relationship between the ICANN Board and the AC/SO. There will be an open microphone, meeting notes will be available on the ICANN web site and there will be a public comment period for those who prefer to express themselves in writing or who do attend the session in person. Wednesday 24 June 2009, GNSO Council Open meeting. Detailed agenda to be decided, however there will be an item on GNSO restructuring and an open microphone session. Thursday 25 June 2009, GNSO Council wrap-up session and the agenda has still to be decided. Item 8: Status Updates
The full agenda for the Board's 23 April meeting is posted on the ICANN web site. 8. 3 Geographical Region WG update Kristina Rosette noted that the Intellectual Property leadership is aware of the concerns expressed about the perceived lack of participation on the IRT by consumer protection expertise and explained that no timely expression of interest was received from anyone one in that field. In the only one expression of interest received, the person was not able to make the time commitment of 15 business days and so was not invited. Public comment is being solicited. Staff clarified that a third version of the Applicant Guide Book (DAG) is expected around September 2009 with a public comment period that will end after the Seoul meeting and after that, a final version of the Applicant Guide Book will be published before the end of the year. 8. 6. 1. 1. Fast Flux 8. 6. 1. 2. Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) 8. 6. 2. 1. Travel Policy Drafting Team - Travel Database for Sydney 8. 6. 2. 2. IDN gTLD Fast Track Edmon Chung reported that the group had accomplished much work on the mailing list and that a call was being scheduled to further discuss the charter. 8. 6. 3. 1 Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) Policy Development Process (PDP) work team (WT) 8. 6. 4. 1. Operations Steering Committee (OSC) Communications coordination work team Chuck reminded the Council that this particular team is dependent on input from constituencies and pending stakeholder groups, and encouraged active constituency participation to provide the input. 8. 7. Restructuring group All questions arising from the last teleconference were submitted to the list, another teleconference is being scheduled to continue from where the group left off, and when the group is finalised, there will be a set of by-laws that Council would recommend to the ICANN Board. The list of issues has been divided up and each issue is discussed separately on the mailing list until closure is reached so eliminating it from the list and making the list shorter. Chuck Gomes commented that the by-law changes were needed before the bi-cameral Council can be seated which would make the June timeframe impossible. In the case of the policy development process (PDP), transition articles are foreseen in the bylaws that will cover cases where Voting thresholds will be affected so it would mean operating under the existing PDP rules in Annex A of the current bylaws with the idea that Annex A will be amended when the By-law work is complete. Avri Doria adjourned the GNSO Council meeting and thanked everyone for their participation. see: Calendar |