[council] GNSO Council Resolution 1 April 2010A Joint SO/AC WG on new gTLD Applicant support

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 Dear All,

Ahead of the official GNSO Council minutes, the following resolution was passed 
at the GNSO Council meeting on Thursday, 1 April 2010.


MOTION TO CREATE JOINT SO/AC WORKING GROUP ON NEW GTLD APPLICANT SUPPORT:

Made by: Rafik Dammak Seconded by: Olga Cavalli amended by Wolf-Ulrich Knoben 
and Tim Ruiz

Whereas, ICANN aims to ensure that the New gTLD Program is inclusive, along the 
lines of the organization's strategic objectives;

Whereas, numerous stakeholders have, on various occasions, expressed concern 
about the cost of applying and about the material requirements for new gTLDs, 
and suggested that these costs and material conditions might hinder applicants 
requiring assistance, especially those from developing regions, from 
cultural/linguistic groups and from non-profit groups such as philanthropies,

Whereas, on 13 March 2010, the ICANN Board adopted Resolution 20 
(http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-12mar10-en.htm#20) requesting that 
stakeholders work with their respective ACs and SOs to form a working group to 
provide a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring 
assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDS;

Whereas, the GNSO Council desires to form a joint working group with other 
interested Supporting Organizations (SO's) and Advisory Committee (AC's) to 
fulfill this Board request, and to develop a sustainable approach to providing 
support to such new GTLD applicants, keeping in mind the GNSO Implementation 
guideline to recover the cost of new gTLD applications and on-going services to 
new gTLDs.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:

Resolved, that the GNSO Council supports the formation of a joint SO/AC working 
group to respond to the Board's request by developing a sustainable approach to 
providing support to new gTLD applicants requiring assistance in applying for 
and operating new gTLDS, keeping in mind the GNSO Implementation guideline to 
recover the cost of new gTLD applications and on-going services to new gTLDs, 
and the goal of not
creating further delays to the new gTLD process;

Resolved further, that Rafik Dammak shall serve as the GNSO Council Liaison for 
this joint SO/AC working group;

Resolved further, that the GNSO Council Chair shall within 48 hours of this 
motion inform the Chairs of other SO's and the AC's of this action and 
encourage their participation;

Resolved further, that ICANN Staff shall within seven calendar days of this 
motion identify and assign applicable Staff support for this working group and 
arrange for support tools such as a mailing list, website and other tools as 
needed;

Resolved further, that the staff support assigned to this working group shall 
within 48 hours after the support tools are arranged distribute an invitation 
for working group participants as widely as possible within the SO/AC community;

Resolved further, that the New gTLD Applicant Support WG shall initiate its 
activities within 28 days after the approval of this motion. Until such time as 
the WG can select a chair and that chair can be confirmed by the participating 
SO's and AC's, the GNSO Council Liaison shall act as interim co-chair with the 
liaison(s) from other SO's and AC's;

Resolved further, that the New gTLD Applicant  Support WG shall as its first 
action items: i) elect a chair or co-chairs; ii) establish meeting times as 
needed; and iii) develop and propose a charter describing its tasks and 
schedule of deliverables for approval by the participating SO's and AC's.

Resolved further, that the New gTLD Applicant  Support WG shall deliver its 
initial recommendation for community comment in time for discussion at the 
Brussels ICANN meeting.

Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen

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