[council] GNSO Council resolutions 23 June 2010

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Councillors,



Ahead of the official Council minutes, the following resolutions were passed by 
the GNSO Council at its open meeting in Brussels on 23 June 2010.

Please let me know if you have any questions.



Thank you very much.

Kind regards,



Glen



GNSO COUNCIL RESOLUTION (Re: Work Prioritization) as amended



Made by: Olga cavalli

Seconded by: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben



WHEREAS, the GNSO Council, at its 21 April 2010 meeting, adopted a resolution 
and timeline

21 april motions>

to conduct its first Work Prioritization effort according to a set of 
procedures (proposed Chapter 6 and ANNEX)

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/wpmg-section-6-and-annex-09apr10-en.pdf>

recommended by the Work Prioritization Model Drafting Team (WPM-DT);



WHEREAS, the adopted timeline outlined four major process steps the first three 
of which have been completed as follows:



1) Step 1: ICANN Policy Staff prepared and delivered to the GNSO Council a 
recommended Work Prioritization Project List (v1.0), including a Cover Letter, 
on 30 April 2010 Council approved on 20 May 2010 
http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/>].



2) Step 2: Eighteen Councilors and one Liaison (19 total) submitted individual 
Value Ratings for all 15 Eligible Projects (approved in Step 1) on or before 9 
June (deadline extended from 7 June), which were then successfully processed 
and aggregated by Staff for input to Step 3;



3) Step 3: The GNSO Council held a Work Prioritization group discussion session 
on 19 June 2010 in Brussels and successfully finalized a set of Value Ratings 
for 14 Eligible Projects (Note: the IDNF project was determined by the Council 
to be "Ineligible");



NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:



RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council approves the GNSO Work Prioritization Value 
Ratings finalized in its group discussion session held on 19 June 2010 and 
directs Staff to publish those Value Ratings on the GNSO website according to 
Step 4 of the adopted timeline.

Motion carried with one abstention



COUNCIL RESOLUTION PERTAINING TO CCT FINAL CONSOLIDATED REPORT carried over 
from 10 June 2010 (as amended by Alan Greenberg)



Made by: Chuck Gomes

Seconded by: Olga Cavalli



WHEREAS, the GNSO Council, at its 21 May 2010 meeting, accepted the deliverable 
of the Communications and Coordination Work Team (CCT) as its final set of 
recommendations;



WHEREAS, a twenty-one (21) day Public Comment Forum 
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-23apr10-en.htm completed 
between 23 April 2010 and 16 May 2010 and a Staff Summary and Analysis 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/cct-recommendations/msg00004.html has been 
prepared;



WHEREAS, the GNSO Council agreed to take action on the CCT's recommendations as 
soon as possible after the end of the public comment period;



NOW, BE IT THEREFORE:



RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council approves the Final Consolidated Report 
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/cct-consolidated-report-final-09apr10-en.pdf of 
the CCT, replacing the second sentence section 5.8 with "The CCT recommends 
that Working Group charters be drafted with careful attention to the issues 
and/or questions that should be considered and the goals/objectives desired to 
be accomplished in addition to desired timeframes.", and directs Staff to begin 
work on implementation.



RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council accepts the CCT's specific 
recommendation to convene a standing committee whose role will be to monitor, 
coordinate, and manage the continuing implementation of the various 
recommendations emanating from the chartered GNSO Improvements Work Teams;



Motion passes unanimously by voice vote.



MOTION Referring to the GNSO Council Operations Procedures Work Team (GCOT) and 
the Constituency Stakeholder Group Work Team (CSG) Recommendations


Made by: Chuck Gomes

Seconded by: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben



WHEREAS, in October 2008, the GNSO Council established a framework for 
implementing the various GNSO Improvements

http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun08.htm

identified and approved by the ICANN Board of Directors on 26 June 2008;



WHEREAS, that framework included the formation, in January 2009, of two 
Steering Committees, the Operations Steering Committee (OSC) and the Policy 
Process Steering Committee (PPSC), to charter and coordinate the efforts of 
five community work teams in developing specific recommendations to implement 
the improvements;



WHEREAS, the OSC established three work teams, including the GNSO Council 
Operations Work Team (GCOT)

https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?gnso_operations_team

and the Constituency and Stakeholder Group Operations Work Team (CSG-WT),

https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?constituency_operations_team

which were chartered to focus on specific operational areas addressed in the 
BGC Report recommendations;

http://www.icann.org/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-03feb08.pdf



WHEREAS, the GCOT has completed and submitted certain documents that it 
recommends be incorporated into the GNSO Operating Procedures (GOP) as follows:

* Section 2.1-Council Member Term Limits

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-term-limits-24may10-en.pdf

* Section 2.4-Board Seat Elections

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-board-seat-elections-24may10-en.pdf

* Section 3.8-Absences and Vacancies

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-absences-vacancies-11jun10-en.pdf

* Chapter 4.0-Voting

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-voting-11jun10-en.pdf

* Chapter 5.0-Statements and Disclosures of Interest

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-gnso-op-procedures-soi-doi-11jun10-en.pdf

o Note that two sections, 5.3.2 and 5.3.3, are not approved pending further 
Staff action to be determined. These sections are footnoted in the document as 
"inactive" until subsequently approved by the OSC and Council.



WHEREAS, the CSG-WT has completed and submitted the following document that it 
recommends be approved for implementation within the GNSO:

* Recommended Common Operating Principles and Participation Guidelines for GNSO 
Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies; and

Recommendations on a GNSO Database of Community Members

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-csg-recommendations-task-27may10-en.pdf



WHEREAS, the OSC has approved the above referenced GCOT amendments to the GOP 
and the CSG-WT recommendations and has forwarded these documents (via embedded 
links) to the GNSO Council on or before 15 June 2010;



NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:



RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council accepts these deliverables submitted by the 
Work Teams and approved by the OSC and directs Staff to post these 
aforementioned documents for twenty-one (21) days in the ICANN Public Comment 
Forum.



RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council shall take formal action on these 
documents, including potential modification, as soon as possible after the 
conclusion of the public comment period.

Motion passed by voice vote.

2 abstentions: Kristina Rosette, David Taylor



MOTION TO APPROVE AOC ENDORSMENT PROCESS: (Original motion carried over from 10 
June)



Made by: Bill Drake

Seconded by: Caroline Greer



Whereas, in furtherance of ICANN¹s responsibilities under the Affirmation of 
Commitment (AOC), the GNSO Council formed a drafting team to develop a process 
to endorse volunteers to serve on the each of the AOC review teams;



Whereas, the AOC Review Requirements Drafting team (AOC-RR Drafting Team) has 
proposed a process to facilitate such GNSO Council endorsements;



Whereas, the GNSO Council desires to adopt the AOC-RR Drafting Team proposed 
process for all future AOC review team selections;



NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:



Resolved, that the GNSO Council hereby approves the Endorsement Process 
described in the attached document 
http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/gnso-endorsement-of-aoc-nominees-process-0

1jun10-en.pdf;



Resolved further, that the GNSO Council should implement the Endorsement 
Process for all future AOC review team selections, including the ³WHOIS Policy² 
and the ³Security, Stability, and Resiliency of the DNS² Review Teams; and



RESOLVED FURTHER, ICANN Staff is requested to post and distribute the 
Endorsement Process as widely as possible to all GNSO related groups in an 
effort to inform qualified applicants of the important work of the ³WHOIS 
Policy² and ³Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS² review teams.



Motion passed with roll call vote:



Contracted Party House: Unanimously in favour.

Non Contracted Party House: 8 votes in favour


8 Votes in favour: Wendy Seltzer, Rosemary Sinclair, Olga Cavalli, Bill Drake, 
Zahid Jamil, Mary Wong, Rafik Dammak, Debbie Hughes



5 Votes against: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben, David Taylor, Mike Rodenbaugh, Jaime 
Wagner, Kristina  Rosette

MOTION ON ENHANCING THE TRANSPARENCY OF GNSO COUNCIL MEETINGS



Made by: Bill Drake

Seconded by: Olga Cavalli



WHEREAS the Affirmation of Commitments mandates that ICANN processes be made as 
transparent as possible;



WHEREAS the GNSO Council seeks to promote broad community awareness of and 
engagement in GNSO activities;



WHEREAS the GNSO Council is a management team whose elected members represent 
their respective Stakeholder Groups in a manner determined by those Stakeholder 
Groups;



WHEREAS this representation function would be enhanced if Stakeholder Group 
members were able to listen in real time to Council meetings; and



WHEREAS it would be impractical to open the GNSO Council meeting teleconference 
facility to Stakeholder Group members;



NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:



RESOLVED that beginning in July 2010, all GNSO Council teleconference meetings 
will be audiocast (in addition to being recorded) so that members of the 
community can listen in real time.



Motion passed unanimously by voice vote.



Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

http://gnso.icann.org