RE: [council] Motion re RAA Amendments

[Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Avri and all, yes we can confirm staff support for the Wednesday meeting (and 
for weekend discussion, schedules permitting) on this issue.  Thanks, Liz

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Avri Doria
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:03 PM
To: GNSO Council
Subject: Re: [council] Motion re RAA Amendments


Hi,

I have added a section (tentatively - waiting on confirmation from the
staff of someone to do a report) to the Wednesday meeting in Mexico City
on the RAA.  Had only planned on report and discussion, but we can deal
with a motion as well if that is what the council is ready to do.

a.


On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 18:18 -0800, Mike Rodenbaugh wrote:
> Sorry to miss Thursday deadline, it has been a very rough week with
> the flu for me and my entire family.  Even if we can’t vote on this on
> Thursday, I would like to add it to AOB so we are prepared for a vote
> in Mexico City.  There is nothing new here, I have suggested this
> several times in the past several months.  For Staff to suggest going
> around the Council, after Council voted down the amendment package, is
> deeply troubling.  This would keep the debate where it belongs, and
> hopefully will bring about swift, consensus amendments to the RAA in
> the next few months.
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> Do I have a second?
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> Thanks,
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> Mike
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> Whereas, the RAA has not been amended since inception, and there is
> widespread community support for amendments to various provisions of
> the RAA.
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> Whereas, the Registrars Constituency and ICANN Staff have agreed on a
> set of proposed amendments to the RAA, and that set of amendments has
> been considered for approval by the GNSO Council.
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> Whereas, a majority of GNSO Council members have refused to support
> the set of proposed amendments as drafted, but many of those members
> support many of the proposed amendments.
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> Whereas, the Council wishes to approve the non-contentious, proposed
> amendments agreed between Staff and the Registrars Constituency as
> quickly as possible so that the ICANN Board may review them, and if
> approved then implement them as quickly as possible.
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> RESOLVED:
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> The GNSO Council will form a fast-track Working Group to convene and
> discuss the proposed set of RAA Amendments, reporting back to Council
> within 30 days with answers to the following questions:
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> 1. Which of the proposed amendments have full consensus as drafted? 
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> 2. Which of the proposed amendments would have full consensus if
> drafted differently, and what specific revisions are required to gain
> full consensus? 
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> 3. Which of the proposed amendments do not have consensus? 
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> 4. What other issues with the RAA are not addressed by the proposed
> set of Amendments? 
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