GNSO Council Teleconference Minutes
| 20 November 2008
Proposed agenda and documents List of attendees: 16 Council Members Rita Rodin - ICANN Board member - absent Avri Doria chaired the meeting. Roll Call. Item 2: Review/amend the agenda GNSO Council minutes of 16 October 2008 - The Secretariat should schedule a separate teleconference for this discussion after the Thanksgiving holidays. In discussion, staff commented that the time was too short to do outreach to registrars and registries to ascertain if there were any noticeable trends in dealing with registration abuse practices, other than take down facilities. It was confirmed that the policy on the abuse of domain use recently adopted by Afilias went through the funnel process , but that technically there was no obligation to pursue the funnel request process. However, staff committed to providing clarification regarding the Afilias case. Avri Doria suggested that the Council formulate questions on the mailing list for responses by ICANN Deputy Counsel and staff. Avri Doria proposed deferring the vote on whether to initiate a policy development process (PDP) to the next Council meeting. Action Item A suggestion was made to form a drafting team to craft motions for the next Council meeting. Item 6: Comments on IDNccTLD Fast Track With regard to 'parallel timing' an important issue arose, as to whether it meant at the beginning of the process or at the insertion into the roots. The GNSO Council passed a resolution in Cairo calling for public comment periods that overlapped with ICANN meetings to be extended but there was no clarity whether the Draft Implementation plan for IDN ccTLDs comment period which ended on 8 December 2008 will be taken into consideration for an extension. A drafting team led by Edmon Chung, together with Olga Cavalli, open to other Council members, undertook to draft the GNSO Council's coordinated response. Item 7: Issues on new gTLD Implementation Council was reminded that, following the new gTLD discussions in Cairo, there would be a question and answer teleconference open to all interested parties, where module 3 discussion would be completed and discussion will continue with modules 4,5 and 6. It was suggested that a motion be crafted for the next Council meeting on 18 December 2008 on the possible modification of the four month posting of final RFP requirement. Staff committed to clarify the length of the public comment period for the new gTLD Draft Application book in light of the resolution that the Council passed in Cairo regarding the extension of public comment periods during ICANN meetings. Action Item The formation of a drafting team was suggested to work on a coordinated Council comment. Item 7 GNSO Restructuring Implementation Plan Two substantive comments were received, regarding the timing of the election of the new council leadership and the ordering of the issues combining calendar dates and key decisions. The Council was required to consider an approach to address the early December deadline mandated by the ICANN Board, and the long-term restructuring effort. It was agreed that Philip Sheppard would draft a response to the ICANN Board for its December 11, 2008 meeting regarding the progress on the GNSO reform issues.
The candidates should be able to represent and advocate for the GNSO position on geographic issues and be willing to keep the Council updated on activities in the working group. Avri Doria noted that there were two volunteers, Eric Brunner-Williams from the Registrar constituency and Olga Cavalli, a Nominating Committee Appointee from the Council. Item 9: Status Updates Chuck Gomes, joined by Alan Greenberg, volunteered to draft a motion along the lines that it would be good to go ahead and get the changes made that have been agreed to and then decide how - what other steps should to be taken beyond that. Rob Hoggarth read Craig Schwartz's status report 9.2.1. AGP Budget Provision Update : The update provided to the Council in Cairo is current. AGP deletes have decreased by 84% from June to July 2008 (17.5M to 2.8M) since implementation of the Board approved provision. An announcement about this statistic was published on ICANN’s website on 13 November 2008. ICANN will provide an update on AGP deletes for August 2008 after the information is publicly available on ICANN’s website after 1 December 2008. 9.2 2. AGP Limits Policy Update: The public comment period on the draft implementation plan closes on 20 November. ICANN will post the Policy and implementation plan in the week of 1 December and will provide notice to the registries to implement the Policy. ICANN anticipates the Policy will be implemented by the registries by the end of Q1 2009 (31 March 2009). Implementation delay: Several Councilors have inquired about the delay in the implementation of the Policy. The consultative process takes time. ICANN reached out to gTLD registries in August to solicit their feedback on certain terms (e.g., extraordinary circumstances, recurring regularly, etc.) that could help formulate the implementation plan. The feedback was incorporated and ICANN reached out to gTLD registries and the registrars constituency in October for feedback on the draft plan. Additional feedback was incorporated and the Policy and draft plan posted for community feedback on 20 October. 9.2.3. Reporting Obligations/Expectations: 9.4 Drafting Teams 9.5 GNSO "Improvements" The two steering committees have meetings scheduled in the coming week, 24 November 2008. The constituencies, as well as the Advisory Committee liaisons, were requested to make sure they were represented on each of the steering committees. 10.1 Information on the upcoming review of the Funnel Process • Internal staff efforts are underway to initiate a review of the funnel process aka the Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP). Avri Doria confirmed, after consulting with ICANN Deputy General Counsel that if an Advisory Committee, the ALAC in this case, requested an Issues Report, the request was automatically transmitted to the Staff for execution and there was no action required from Council. On behalf of Council, Avri Doria thanked the ALAC for the courtesy of the notification and stated that once an Issues Report was before Council, the appropriate decision, by Council vote, on whether or not to initiate a policy development process would be taken. Avri Doria adjourned the GNSO Council meeting and thanked everyone for their participation. see: Calendar |