Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting 17 December 2009.
This agenda was established according to the GNSO Council Operating Procedures approved 28 October 2009 for the GNSO Council
Coordinated Universal Time:15:00 UTC - see below for local times
(07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 16:00 Brussels, 02:00 Melbourne next day)
Chair: Chuck Gomes; Vice Chairs: Olga Cavalli & Stéphane Van Gelder
Note: This meeting will be recorded.
Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins.
Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members.
Item1: Administrative matters
1.1. Roll call of Council members
1.2. Update any statements of interest
1.3. Review/amend agenda
1.4. Note the status of minutes for the following Council meetings per the new Council Operating Procedures:
- 8 October meeting – Approved on 28 November 2009
- 28 October meeting – Approved on 27 November 2009
- 23 November meeting – Approved on 08 December 2009
Item 2: Motion to approve GNSO Improvements Recommendations for a Constituency/Stakeholder Group Toolkit of Services
2.1 Refer to the recommendations document at:
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/tool-kit-services-recommendations-for-gnso-18oct09-en.pdf
2.2 Discussion of recommendations
2.3 See the motion at:
17 december motions
2.4 Vote
Item 3: Special Trademark Issues (STI) Review Team
3.1 Update – David Maher, STI Review Group Chair
3.2 Refer to the 11 December STI Report at:
Special Trademark Issues Review Team Recommendations (11 December 2009)
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/sti/sti-wt-recommendations-11dec09-en.pdf
3.3 Council action?
Proposed motion 17 December motions
Item 4: Action on Issues Report regarding vertical separation of Registries and Registrars
4.1 Refer to Issues Report on Vertical Integration
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/vertical-integration/report-04dec09-en.pdf
4.2 Overview of Issues Report (Margie Milam)
4.3 Discussion
4.3 See possible motion(s) at:
17 december motions
Note: If a motion is acted on to initiate a PDP, absentee voting will be allowed.
Item 5: Prioritization of GNSO work
5.1 Status Report (Olga Cavalli)
5.2 Council action?
5.3 Next steps?
Item 6: Status updates
6.1 Board update (Denise Michel)
Preliminary Report of Special Board Meeting
http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-09dec09-en.htm
6.2 New gTLD Implementation Process Update (Kurt Pritz):
6.2.1 Overarching Issues
6.2.2 Next steps
6.2.3 Timeline
6.2.4 The IDN Implementation Working Team Final Report
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-implementation-working-team-report-final-03dec09-en.pdf
recommends that the GNSO & ccNSO do policy work with regard to the following two issues related to single-character IDN top level names: 1) selection of scripts for which single character IDN TLDs should be allowed; 2) method for allocation of single character IDN TLDs. This item will be discussed in the 7 Jan 2010 meeting."
6.3 Items of interest to the GNSO from the ccNSO (Olga Cavalli/Han Chuan Lee)
6.4 Other?
6.5 Questions/comments on written status updates sent in advance by leaders of Working Groups, Work Teams, staff projects, etc.?
Item 7: AOB
7.1 Request for Policy Process Steering Committee( PPSC) Working Group Team face-to-face meeting
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/request-pdp-wt-meeting-03dec09-en.pdf
- Correspondence from Jeff Neuman - PPSC (Policy Development Process) PDP chair to Chuck Gomes - GNSO Council chair
http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/neuman-to-gnso-council-chair-10dec09-en.pdf - Message from Chuck Gomes to GNSO Council
http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/gomes-to-gnso-council-11dec09-en.pdf
7.2 Staff update on plans to ensure safety and security in Nairobi
7.3 Councilors are asked to forward the AGP Limits Policy - Implementation Report
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-14dec09-en.pdf
to their groups and be prepared to discuss it in the 7 January 2010 meeting.
Item 8: The updated GNSO Project Status List (formerly Pending Action Item List) is at:
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-projects-list.pdf
8.1 Questions/comments?
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:
a. Create an Issues Report: requires an affirmative vote of more than 25% vote of each House or majority of one House;
b. 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;
c. 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”);
d. 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;
e. Approve a PDP Recommendation With a GNSO Supermajority: requires an affirmative vote of a GNSO Supermajority; and
f. 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:
a. Initiate a policy development process;
b. Forward a policy recommendation to the Board;
c. Recommend amendments to the ICANN Bylaws;
d. 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.
(07:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 Washington DC, 15:00 London, 16:00 Brussels, 02:00 Melbourne next day)
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