FW: [council] Proposed Amendment to Motion #2

["Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx>]

All,

I would like to amend my amendment to read "legal and business
communities", which more accurately reflects my intended meaning.

Kristina 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rosette, Kristina 
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:30 AM
To: 'Ross Rader'; GNSO Council
Subject: RE: [council] Proposed Amendment to Motion #2

All,

Subject to one minor amendment, I am happy too accept Rross's proposal
as a friendly amendment.  The minor amendment is to include the phrase
"legal community" in clause 6 after "anti-crime".

Kristina   

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Ross Rader
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:56 AM
To: GNSO Council
Subject: [council] Proposed Amendment to Motion #2


Kristina, fellow councillors;

After consultation with the registrar community, I would like to offer
the following language as an amendment to motion #2 on Whois.

The purpose of these amendments is two-fold;

a) to conclude the policy development work of the GNSO on the issue of
Whois until such time that we have identified specific issues that we
can break down into discrete policy development activities. I do not
believe that we attempt again a broad reform of Whois but rather, focus
on smaller, narrower sets of issues in the field that we can deal with
in short periods of time while still achieving meaningful results, and;

b) to focus the study work required to line up against specific policy
areas where we need further information in order to understand the scope
of issues or work required. A broad study of Whois will probably be as
effective and useful as a broad PDP on Whois. However, narrower more
focused study - or several of them even - will likely bring us much
closer to understanding the issues we need to properly consider our
policy work.

If anyone has any questions regarding these amendments, please let me
know. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this amendment.

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WHEREAS;
1. The GNSO Council has recently received  the Whois  Working Group
final report and;

2. The GNSO Council acknowledges that the broad range of stakeholders
with interests in this issue has lead to a wide range of views of what
the policy issues are and how to best address those policy issues with
solutions that can be supported by the consensus of the community, and;

3. The GNSO Council observes that the Working Group failed to reach
agreement on several of the key issues identified in the charter of the
Working Group, and;

4. That broadly, the scope of the issues in this area have evolved
substantially over the term of this Policy Development Process since it
was originally chartered, and;

5. A comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key
factual issues regarding the gTLD Whois system will benefit future GNSO
policy development efforts, and;

6. The rights and requirements of natural persons, anti-crime and law
enforcement, registries and registrars in the areas of privacy, access,
enforcement, investigation, consumer protection and research would
benefit from future policy development by the GNSO.

THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the GNSO Council; 1. Sincerely thanks all
of the volunteers, advisors, consultants, staff, stakeholders, observers
and constituency participants who have contributed to the GNSO's
examination of Whois policy over the last four years, and;

2. Formally ends the Policy Development Process on gTLD Whois without
making any recommendations for specific policy changes to ICANN's Board
of Directors, and;

3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development in several key
areas and will immediately undertake to identify what specific policy
development work is required and create a data-gathering and study plan
to support this policy development no later than February 15th, 2008.

4. May initiate policy development activities in this area, as supported
by the findings of the data-gathering and study  activities upon their
completion.

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Thank you in advance for considering these amendments.


Ross Rader
Director, Retail Services
t. 416.538.5492
c. 416.828.8783
http://www.domaindirect.com

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