[council] Revised draft GNSO Council minutes 12 April 2007

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Dear Council Members,

Please find the revised draft minutes of the GNSO Council teleconference 
held on 12 April 2007.
The following changes have been made:

Sue Jonklaas title corrected
Regional Business Advisor -Asia Pacific, Office of the General
Counsel.

Item 5

the urls relating to the terms of reference agreed upon by the GNSO
Council on April 12 2006 now resolve.
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-12apr06.shtml

Reference the three decisions made by the GNSO Council with respect to
the work of the WHOIS task force (e.g the decision regarding the
definition of purpose) and summarise what they were about in two or
three sentences:

Item 3: Revision of Transfers Policy
- consider staff recommendations

The last paragraph has been changed to read:

A set of recommendations has been drafted, which requires a final review
by the committee. These will be reviewed and forwarded to the GNSO
Council prior to the June meeting in Puerto Rico.

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,
Glen
....................................................................................
12 April 2007

Proposed agenda and documents

List of attendees:
Philip Sheppard - Commercial & Business Users C.
Mike Rodenbaugh - Commercial & Business Users C.
Alistair Dixon - Commercial & Business Users C
Greg Ruth - ISCPC
Antonio Harris - ISCPC
Tony Holmes - ISCPC
Thomas Keller- Registrars - absent - apologies
Ross Rader - Registrars
Bruce Tonkin - Registrars
Chuck Gomes - gTLD registries
Edmon Chung - gTLD registries
Cary Karp - gTLD registries
Kristina Rosette - Intellectual Property Interests C
Ute Decker - Intellectual Property Interests C
Kiyoshi Tsuru - Intellectual Property Interests C - absent
Robin Gross - NCUC
Norbert Klein - NCUC. - absent - apologies
Mawaki Chango - NCUC
Sophia Bekele - Nominating Committee appointee - absent - apologies
Jon Bing - Nominating Committee appointee - absent - apologies
Avri Doria - Nominating Committee appointee

16 Council Members
(21 Votes - quorum)

ICANN Staff
Sue Jonklaas - Regional Business Advisor -Asia Pacific, Office of the
General
Counsel.
Denise Michel - Vice President, Policy Development
Olof Nordling - Manager, Policy Development Coordination
Liz Williams - Senior Policy Counselor
Maria Farrell - GNSO Policy Officer
Karen Lentz - gTLD Registry Liaison
Glen de Saint Géry - GNSO Secretariat

GNSO Council Liaisons
Suzanne Sene - GAC Liaison - absent - apologies
Alan Greenberg - ALAC Liaison - absent

Rita Rodin - ICANN Board member

Quorum present at 12:15 UTC.

MP3 recording

Bruce Tonkin and Philip Sheppard chaired this meeting

Approval of the agenda

Item 1: Update any Statements of Interest
No updates

Item 2: Approval of the GNSO Council minutes of 28 March 2007
The approval of the minutes was deferred to the next Council meeting

Item 3: Revision of Transfers Policy
- consider staff recommendations
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03369.html

Ross Rader, chair of theTransfers Policy Review Committee, set up in mid
2005, reported that the committee's goal was to review the effectiveness
of the existing Transfer Policy from an operational perspective and
determine whether or not any amendments to the existing policy should be
recommended for further examination in a policy development process by
the GNSO and/or whether or not any additional work would be required on
the implementation side at an ICANN Staff level.

ICANN Staff prepared 3 summary documents
1) is the draft advisory, unchanged from last message in January.
<Draft-Transfer-Advisory-24jan07.doc>

2) is some notes on possible tighter wording/clarifications to the
existing policy. This consists of 4 points taken out of the previous
"policy issues" list--all of these had to do with the reasons for denial
section. <DenialClarifications-28mar07.doc>

3) is a revised list of policy issues with the above-mentioned items
taken out. <Draft-TransfersPolicyList-28mar07>

A set of recommendations has been drafted, which requires a final review
by the commitee. These will be reviewed and forwarded to the GNSO
Council prior to the June meeting in Puerto Rico.

Bruce Tonkin handed the Chair to Philip Sheppard for Item 4 concerning
the ICANN Board election results.

Item 4: Ratify election results for ICANN Board seat #13
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03416.html

Results of Election Board seat # 13 :
Dr. Bruce Tonkin is elected to the ICANN Board in seat # 13.
Total votes 21 votes for Bruce Tonkin
3 abstentions
3 votes not cast

The details of the vote:
3 people did not vote by ballot.
1. Bruce Tonkin was not replaced by the Registrar constituency. (2 votes)
2. One Council member did not return a ballot and could not be
contacted. (1 vote)
3. One Council member did not return a ballot and under special
circumstances, voted by email and phone before the close of the vote on
9 April at 17:00 UTC. (1 vote)

The total number of votes that Council could cast was 27 and a majority
14 or more.

Philip Sheppard proposed that
The GNSO Council resolved to ratify the election results for ICANN Board
seat number 13 which were 21 votes for Bruce Tonkin, 3 abstentions, 3
votes not cast.

The motion passes by voice vote.
Bruce Tonkin abstained.

Decision 1: The GNSO Council resolved to ratify the election results for
ICANN Board seat number 13 which were 21 votes for Bruce Tonkin, 3
abstentions, 3 votes not cast.

Philip Sheppard, on behalf of the Council congratulated Bruce Tonkin and
handed the chair back to him.

Bruce Tonkin thanked the Council for their support and stated that he
was prepared to continue chairing the Council until the council elected
a new chair and/or he took his place on the ICANN Board in the beginning
of June 2007, but that an election process for a new chair should be
started based on previous procedures.
The GNSO secretariat was requested to launch the process.

Item 5: Ratify WHOIS working group statement of work and appoint an
interim chair
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03357.html

Bruce Tonkin referred to postings to the Council list relating to recent
Council decisions regarding Whois , a summary of opposition to the WHOIS
task force recommendation, the WHOIS task force recommendations, and
IETF working group guidelines for managing working groups.

Maria Farrell summarised the changes to the charter proposed by various
Council members on the mailing list:

1. Changes that related to the objective of the working group that
should explicitly consider the implementation issues raised by
Operational Point of Contact (OPOC).

2. Changes to the background section and information, ensuring an
explicit reference to the definition of purpose agreed upon by Council
on April 12 2006
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-12apr06.shtml

3. The task force policy recommendations should be specified.
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-services-final-tf-report-12mar07.htm#_Toc161480260

4. Changes referring to the work:
a. to use the text of the resolution agreed by the council, rather than
the current text.
b. only examine the definition of the OPAC in the light of the original
resolution then consider whether access should be for a legitimate
interest as stated in the original proposal or with regard to legitimate
activities, as referenced in the GAC principles
c. whether there should be distinctions between people accessing the
data and how these should be made.

5. In the assignment of work, which third party and under which
condition should have access to unpublished data.

6. Remove the GAC principles from the document.

Bruce Tonkin summarised the discussion in Council and indicated where
agreement appeared to have been reached:

In the background section specifically include a reference to the
council decision on the WHOIS purpose
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-12apr06.shtml
and Council's intention to revisit the definition in the light of the
final report.

Reference the three decisions made by the GNSO Council with respect to
the work of the WHOIS task force (e.g the decision regarding the
definition of purpose) and summarise what they were about in two or
three sentences:
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-12apr06.shtml
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-20jul06.shtml
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03405.html

Refer to that GAC principles
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03348.html
GAC Communiqué is available at:
http://gac.icann.org/web/communiques/gac27com.pdf
and identify that they specifically provided a list of legitimate
activities.
Move the material currently under 4B into the Background section.

In section 3, the policy recommendations being referred to should be
specified in a footnote.

In section 4B, the motion passed in Lisbon stated 'how legitimate
interest will access' while the current document used the term ' how
third parties may access for legitimate activity'.
Thus 4B could be re-worded to: 'determine how and which legitimate third
parties may access registration data that is no longer available for
unrestricted public query based access.

Chuck Gomes, seconded by Avri Doria, proposed that the WHOIS Charter of work
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03357.html
be accepted by the Council with the changes as specified above.

The motion passed unanimously by voice vote.

Decision 2: Council resolved that the WHOIS Charter of work
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03357.html
be accepted by the Council with the changes as specified above.

[The revised charter as approved is available at:
http://www.gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-wg/whois-working-group-charter-16apr07.pdf]

It was agreed to send a communication to the GAC inviting those
interested members in participating as individuals whose expertise would
be valued rather than the official view of the particular department or
government

Item 5 b: appoint an interim chair for the WHOIS working group
Bruce Tonkin commented that Council needed to select a WHOIS working
group chair bearing in mind the short mandate of the working group. The
person should be currently available, have chairing experience and be
acquainted with the WHOIS background and history to get the work started.
Bruce Tonkin proposed Philip Sheppard as the interim chair.

The discussion emphasised the need for a skilled chair person to remain
neutral for the 120 day period while the group was in place. Listening
to the discussions, and the various points of view and identifying areas
of rough consensus. Bruce Tonkin referred to the RFC2418 IETF Working
Group Guidelines and Procedures - dated Sept 1998 as possible guidelines
for such a group.

Rita Rodin expressed hope that the working group would produce policy
and resolve some of the WHOIS issues. Rita emphasised the facilitator
role of the chair, aided by a co-chair, in eliciting ideas and moving
towards a compromise.

Views were stated in favour of having a co-chair because two different
neutral perspectives could lead to broader rough consensus being obtained.

It was suggested that a facilitator or neutral party, such as an
ex-board member or an external paid facilitator, could be a valuable
support and sounding board for the chair in pointing out where
neutrality could be compromised.

It was suggested that Jon Bing, not on the call, Nominating Committee
appointee to the Council, relatively new to the Council in a neutral
role, could fulfil the role and be consulted by the chair.

Philip Sheppard expressed concern with formalizing a co-chair
relationship. In accepting the challenge of chair he was prepared to
approach the WHOIS issues in a neutral perspective to best resolve a
long standing issue. Philip went on to state that if council had
concerns about the level of neutrality and ability to exert in this then
he would stand down and let somebody else take on the role. Professional
staff or someone in the Council/community would be welcomed to fulfil
the role of sounding board.
Mawaki Chango suggested that the motion should not preclude the
possibility of electing co-chairs and urged Philip not to put as a
condition that he would step down if there would be a co-chair.

Bruce Tonkin, seconded by Avri Doria proposed that:
the GNSO Council resolves to appoint Philip Sheppard as interim Chair of
the Whois Working Group, that Philip would undertake to chair the group
in a neutral manner and undertake to take input from others in
determining what constitutes rough consensus of the Working Group.

The motion was carried by a voice vote.

2 abstentions were noted from Philip Sheppard and Mawaki Chango

Decision 3: The GNSO Council resolved to appoint Philip Sheppard as
interim Chair of the Whois Working Group, that Philip would undertake to
chair the group in a neutral manner and undertake to take input from
others in determining what constitutes rough consensus of the Working Group.

Item 6: Protection of IGO Names and Abbreviations in line with WIPO 2

- consider recommendation from the intellectual property constituency
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03368.html
The constituency recommends that:

"The GNSO Council should request an Issues Report from ICANN staff to
further explore the issues involved in introducing a separate dispute
resolution procedure (DRP) specifically for addressing disputes
involving IGO names and abbreviations. Based on this Issues Report, the
GNSO Council may then consider launching a PDP on the topic. "

see correspondence on this topic:
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/ on this topic.

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/twomey-to-tarmizi-13mar06.pdf

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/tarmizi-to-twomey-15jun06.pdf

Kristina Rosette commented on the background to the proposal.
When the initial Intellectual Property constituency (IPC) statement was
submitted to the new gTLD policy development process there were
suggestions to implement parts of the WIPO2 recommendations,
specifically, protection of international governmental organization
names and abbreviations. The inclusion of that recommendation was
motivated by a request made to the IPC during a cross constituency
meeting in Vancouver to take a lead in attempting to find a consensus
solution proposal to some of the issues raised in the WIPO 2
recommendations.

The WIPO 2 recommendations did include other areas, for example, the
protection of country names and the protection of personal names. In
examining the issue, the IPC had not found sufficient legal basis in
international law to justify full implementation of all of the WIPO2
recommendations.

Thus, the scope of the IPC recommendation was to restrict it to the
protection of IGO names and abbreviations.In summary there is definitely
a basis in international law for the protection of IGO names and
abbreviations tracing back to the Paris Convention.

Currently,there are slightly over 132 IGO's that have followed the
procedure for having their names and acronyms registered and consistent
with the Paris convention.
WIPO itself has provided a draft model and rules for the possession of
IGO names and abbreviations as type of modified parallel UDRP procedure.
The notable difference would be to restrict the scope to IGOs and create
a different appeals procedure from that which is currently in place.

WIPO feels quite strongly that it is important to obtain the protection
and to have an alternate procedure to allow IGO's to protect their names
and marks particularly because of the nature of some of the IGO's,
In summary, the IPC requests the GNSO Council should request an Issues
Report from ICANN staff to further explore the issues involved in
introducing a separate dispute resolution procedure (DRP) specifically
for addressing disputes involving IGO names and abbreviations. Based on
this Issues Report, the GNSO Council may then consider launching a PDP
on the topic.

IGO Names and Abbreviations are not considered to be trademarks.

Bruce Tonkin proposed tabling a motion for the next meeting and
requesting feedback from the ICANN Staff in terms of resourcing a policy
development process.

Item 7: Ratify extension to Reserved Names Working Group statement of
work http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03373.html

The GNSO Council resolved, per the terms of the original Reserved Name
Working Group (RN-WG) Statement of Work approved by the Council,
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-18jan07.shtml
that the RN-WG is extended for an additional 30 days starting on 11
April 2007 and ending on 10 May 2007 with the tasks defined in the
attached Statement of Work with Philip Sheppard's friendly amendment
that the working group include in the statement of work under: Tasks
regarding Recommendations, 1,a 1: 'explore the issue around ICANN IANA
names' and with the requirement to deliver a final report not later than
10 May 2007.

The motion passed unanimously by voice vote.

Decision 4: The GNSO Council resolved, per the terms of the original
Reserved Name Working Group (RN-WG) Statement of Work approved by the
Council,
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-18jan07.shtml
that the RN-WG is extended for an additional 30 days starting on 11
April 2007 and ending on 10 May 2007 with the tasks defined in the
attached Statement of Work with Philip Sheppard's friendly amendment
that the working group include in the statement of work under: Tasks
regarding Recommendations, 1,a 1: 'explore the issue around ICANN IANA
names' and with the requirement to deliver a final report not later than
10 May 2007.

Draft Statement of Work for 30-Day Extension of RN-WG

Original RN-WG Statement of Work will apply as applicable with the
following added.

General Tasks
1. Define reserved names per direction provided during meetings in Lisbon
2. Reorganize the RN-WG report so that recommendations are grouped in
the following categories:
a. Reserved name recommendations ready for input into the New gTLD PDP
report
b. Recommendations for possible use in the New gTLD evaluation process,
not as reserved names
i. Geographical and geopolitical names
ii. Controversial names
c. Categories of names deemed to be out of scope for the RN-WG
i. Three character names at the third level
ii. Registry specific names at the second level
iii. Other reserved names at the second level
3. Review GAC Principles for New gTLDs
4. Review IDN-WG Report
5. Add the GAC Principles for New gTLDs to the RN-WG report and
reference them in applicable name categories
6. Request that the SSAC identify any possible security or stability
issues with regard to RN-WG recommendations as well as suggestions as to
how any such issues might be mitigated
7. Create an annex as feasible (with no explanations) which is simply
the full proposed list of reserved names listed alphanumerically
8. Use format specifications to be provided by Liz Williams

Tasks regarding Recommendations

1. ICANN/IANA reserved names
a. Attempt to complete the work needed to make a final recommendation
regarding whether or not the existing ASCII reserved name requirement
should be continued at all levels of domain names registered by a registry.
a.b. State Restate recommendations in the RN-WG report so that they can
be readily transferred into the New gTLD PDP report
i. If unable to complete the work described in item a above, maintain
Maintain status quo for now regarding ASCII names
ii. Confirm that these names are already reserved at the third level for
.name and .pro and edit the document accordingly
iii. Reword recommendation for “example” at all levels for ASCII and IDN
names
1. Provide examples
2. Incorporate any relevant comments from the IDN-WG report
iv. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
b.c. Finalize guidelines for additional work if needed
2. Use of symbols in Reserved Names
a. Restate recommendations in RN-WG report so that they can be readily
transferred into the New gTLD PDP, including fine-tuning of language
i. Provide examples as possible
ii. Maintain status quo for now regarding ASCII names
b. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
3. Single & two-character reserved names
a. Consult further with IDN experts regarding single and two-character
IDN names including definition of the term ‘character’ as it relates to
non-roman scripts
b. Consult further with experts in the technical community regarding
single letter ASCII names, single-number ASCII names and two-character
ASCII names involving at least one number.
c. Consult with the GAC as possible regarding single and two-character
IDN names
d. Restate recommendations in RN-WG report so that they can be readily
transferred into the New gTLD PDP report
i. Provide examples as possible for both the top and second levels,
ASCII and IDN, single and two-character
ii. Incorporate any relevant comments from the IDN-WG report
e. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
f. Finalize guidelines for additional work for ASCII single character
names at all levels
g. As necessary, finalize guidelines for additional work for IDN single
and two-character names at all levels
4. Tagged names
a. Restate recommendations in RN-WG report so that they can be readily
transferred into the New gTLD PDP report
i. To ensure clarity, change all occurrences of ‘in the third and fourth
character positions’ to ‘in both the third and fourth character positions’
ii. Move recommendation 2 for IDN gTLDs from ASCII, top level to IDN top
level
iii. In recommendation 2 for IDN gTLDs, change wording to use the terms
‘ASCII compatible encoding’ and ‘Unicode display form’
iv. Provide examples, including an example of what new applicants for an
IDN gTLD would have to provide
v. Incorporate any relevant comments from the IDN-WG report
b. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
5. NIC, Whois and www
a. Restate recommendations in RN-WG report so that they can be readily
transferred into the New gTLD PDP report
i. Provide examples
ii. Incorporate any relevant comments from the IDN-WG report
b. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
6. Geographical & geopolitical names
a. Review the GAC Principles for New gTLDs with regard to geographical
and geopolitical names
b. Consult with WIPO experts regarding geographical and geopolitical
names and IGO names
c. Consult with the GAC as possible
d. Reference the treaty instead of the Guidelines and identify
underlying laws if different than a treaty
e. Consider restricting the second and third level recommendations to
unsponsored gTLDs only
f. Restate recommendations in RN-WG report for possible use in the New
gTLD evaluation process, not as reserved names
i. Describe process flow
ii. Provide examples as possible
iii. Incorporate any relevant comments from the IDN-WG report
g. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
h. Edit other text of the individual subgroup report as applicable to
conform with the fact that geographical and geopolitical names will not
be considered reserved names
i. Finalize guidelines for additional work as necessary
7. Third level names
a. Replace recommendations with a statement about the direction by the
Council that this category is not in the scope of the RN-WG
b. Edit other text of the individual subgroup report as applicable with
the statement regarding scope
8. gTLD names at the 2nd (or 3rd level if applicable)
a. Complete consultation with gTLD registries and incorporate final
results in the RN-WG report
b. Determine whether final recommendations can be made
c. State recommendations in RN-WG report so that they can be readily
transferred into the New gTLD PDP report
i. Provide examples
ii. Incorporate any relevant comments from the IDN-WG report
d. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
e. If additional work is needed, finalize guidelines for that work
9. Other names at the second level
a. Replace recommendations with a statement about the direction by the
Council that this category is not in the scope of the RN-WG
b. Edit other text of the individual subgroup report as applicable with
the statement regarding scope
10. Controversial names
a. Review the GAC Principles for New gTLDs with regard to controversial
names
b. Consult with the GAC as possible
c. Consider the possibility of creating a disputed name list (not a
reserved name list) that would be updated whenever controversial names
are rejected and would be used for guideline purposes only
d. Restate recommendations in RN-WG report for possible use in the New
gTLD evaluation process, not as reserved names
i. Describe process flow
ii. Provide examples as possible
iii. Incorporate any relevant comments from the IDN-WG report
e. Provide a brief rationale in support of the recommendations,
referring to the role of the category as applicable
f. Edit other text of the individual subgroup report as applicable to
conform with the fact that controversial names will not be considered
reserved names
g. Finalize guidelines for additional work as necessary

Schedule
1. Restart date: Wednesday, 11 April
2. Completion date: Monday, 10 May

Bruce Tonkin formally closed the meeting and thanked everyone for their
participation.

The meeting ended: 14 :15 UTC

Next GNSO Council meeting will be on 24 May 2007 at 12:00 UTC.
see: Calendar

Summary of Work Items arising from the minutes:

1. Arising from item 4, the GNSO Secretariat to launch the election
process for GNSO Council chair.

2. Arising from item 5, revise the WHOIS working group charter to
reflect the Council discussions.

3 Arising from item 5, send a communication to the GAC seeking
participation from the members as individuals.

4. Arising from item 6,

a. table the motion "The GNSO Council should request an Issues Report
from ICANN staff to further explore the issues involved in introducing a
separate dispute resolution procedure (DRP) specifically for addressing
disputes involving IGO names and abbreviations. Based on this Issues
Report, the GNSO Council may then consider launching a PDP on the topic. "

b. request ICANN staff for feedback on the availability of resources to
commence a policy development process (pdp).
--
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org


--
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org