Re: [council] Final version of RAA amendment/motion

[William Drake <william.drake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,
This is news to us.  NCUC much prefers the language we agreed on Sunday.

Bill



On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Thought I should point out that the only change from the version that
> was circulated Sunday afternoon is in the last paragraph of the resolve.
>
> The Sunday afternoon version read:
>
> Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO
> Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss the amendments further and
> identify those that the community believes could be further revised
> through PDP processes or through additional changes to the RAA that may
> not fall within scope of a formal PDP process. The Drafting Team should
> endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later
> then July 31, 2009.
>
> It has been changed to:
>
> Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO
> Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the
> RAA.
> The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council
> and
> ICANN staff no later then July 31, 2009.
>
>
> Tim
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [council] Final version of RAA amendment/motion
> From: "Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, March 03, 2009 3:40 pm
> To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> The attached, also copied below, is the final version of the motion many
> of us have worked on. It reflects all the changes that we've discussed.
> Not completely sure of the best way to frame it for voting, but would
> like to suggest that we consider it the only motion on this subject that
> we vote on tomorrow.
>
> Tim
>
> ----------------
> Whereas, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) has not been
> amended since May 2001, and ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative
> process related to amending the RAA, including several public comment
> periods and consultations;
>
> Whereas, the proposed changes to the RAA include important compliance
> and enforcement tools for ICANN; The Council wishes to approve the set
> of proposed amendments as quickly as possible so that the ICANN Board
> may review them, and if approved then implement them as quickly as
> possible; and
>
> Whereas,
>
> The Council would like to proceed on the drafting of a charter
> identifying registrant rights that registrars would be obliged to link
> to, as contemplated in the set of amendments;
>
> The Council would like a specific process and timeline to move forward
> with additional potential amendments to the RAA; and
>
> The Registrar Constituency is supportive of these efforts and is willing
> to participate on a good faith basis on anticipated next steps.
>
> Resolved:
>
> The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pdf
> and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March
> 6, 2009;
>
> Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments,
> representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified
> to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated
> by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support
> from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later then July
> 31; and
>
> Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO
> Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the
> RAA.
> The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council
> and
> ICANN staff no later then July 31, 2009.
>
>
>
>
>
>


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William J. Drake
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Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute for International and
 Development Studies
 Geneva, Switzerland
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