RE: [council] Draft GNSO Council Agenda 25 September 2008

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to move item 10 and perhaps item 5 ahead of item 4, or move
item 10 to right after item 5. Both have motions that may result in a
vote and we always seem to lose Councilors from the call toward the end.


Tim 

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Subject: [council] Draft GNSO Council Agenda 25 September 2008
From: Glen_de_Saint_Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, September 18, 2008 11:05 am
To: "council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Dear Councilors,

Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 25 September 2008

This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the
GNSO Council

Coordinated Universal Time12:00 UTC - see below for local times
(05:00 Los Angeles, 08:00 Washington DC, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels,
22:00 Melbourne)

Chuck Gomes will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting
Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins.
Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members.

Item 0: Roll call of Council members
Item 1: Update any statements of interest
Item 2: Review/amend agenda

Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes of 4 September 2008 (Items 0-3 10
mins )

Item 4: Status Update (15 mins)
4.1 ICANN Board

4.2 Fast Flux PDP WG

4.3 Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part A PDP

4.4 New gTLDs

4.5 Fast Track

4.6 AGP

4.7 RAA Amendments

Item 5: Discussion on GNSO Response concerning Geo Regions (15 mins)
ICANN Geographic Regions
-- Constituency feedback
-- Next Steps

Item 6: Discussion/Decision GNSO Restructuring and Plan (25 mins)
-- Overview of Plan
https://st.icann.org/gnso_transition/index.cgi?gnso_improvements

Item 7: ICANN subsidization of GNSO travel expenses (10 mins).

- longer term procedure
--Next Steps

Item 8: Planning for Cairo (15 mins)

8.1 Proposal for Trans-Silo Joint meeting (ccNSO, GNSO, GAC, ALAC) on
Monday 3 November 2008
8.2 Thursday 6 November 2008
Proposed Topics:
* Issues at the cross-section of implementation of New gTLD (LDH & IDN),
and Fast Track IDNccTLDs
* ICANN Transition and the PSC
8.3 Other

Item 9: Whois Hypotheses Study Group (10 mins)
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-study-hypothesis-group-report-to-council-26aug08.pdf
-- Constituency feedback
-- Next Steps

Item 10: Motion on request for issues report on Registration Abuse
Policies. (10 mins)
Motion: Mike Rodenbaugh Second: Greg Ruth
Whereas:
1. ICANN's mission is to ensure the security and stability of the DNS,
and to develop policy reasonably related to that mission.
2. Various forms of DNS abuse, in isolation and/or in the aggregate,
cause a less secure and stable DNS.
3. Some of ICANN's gTLD registry agreements and appended
registry-registrar agreements contain a provision such as Section 3.6.5
of the.info Registry Agreement, Appendix 8 :
3.6.5. (Registrars) acknowledge and agree that Afilias reserves the
right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration or transaction, or
place any
domain name(s) on registry lock, hold or similar status, that it deems
necessary, in its discretion; (1) to protect the integrity and stability
of the registry; (2) to comply with any applicable laws, government
rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, or any dispute
resolution process; (3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on
the part of Afilias, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers,
directors, and employees; (4) per the terms of the registration
agreement or (5) to correct mistakes made by Afilias or any Registrar in
connection with a domain name registration.
Afilias also reserves the right to place upon registry lock, hold or
similar status a domain name during resolution of a dispute.

4. Afilias, the dotInfo Registry Operator, per its recent RSEP request,
has sought to clarify and implement its specific abusive registration
policy with respect to this provision. This request has been approved by
ICANN.
5. Some of ICANN's gTLD registry agreements, notably the Verisign
contracts for .com and .net, have no such provision. Other gTLD registry
agreements do contain such provision, but the registry operators have
not developed or have inconsistently developed abusive registration
policies.
The GNSO Council resolves to request an Issues Report from ICANN Staff
with respect to the following:
1. To identify and describe the various provisions in existing and
previous gTLD registry and registry-registrar agreements which relate to
contracting parties' ability to take action in response to abuse.
2. To identify and describe various provisions in a representative
sampling of gTLD registration agreements which relate to contracting
parties' and/or registrants rights and obligations with respect to
abuse.
3. To identify and describe any previous discussion in ICANN fora which
substantively pertains to provisions of this nature in any of these
agreements.
4. To identify and describe potential options for further Council
consideration, relating to consistency and propriety of provisions of
this nature in all of these agreements.

Item 11: Any Other Business (5 mins)

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22:00 Melbourne)
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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org