[council] ICANN Final Status Report to the GNSO Council on AGP Limits Policy Implementation

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02jun11-en.htm

ICANN Final Status Report to the GNSO Council on AGP Limits Policy 
Implementation

2 June 2011

ICANN today is posting its fifth and final status 
report<http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-final-report-02jun11-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 316 KB] to the GNSO on the implementation of its recommendations for the 
Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy. As noted in prior status reports, the 
success of the Policy is evidenced by the 99.7% reduction in AGP deletes since 
the Policy went into effect in April 2009.

ICANN committed to analyzing and reporting on the effects of the Policy to the 
GNSO at six-month intervals for two years after its implementation. The first 
status 
report<http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-10jun09-en.pdf> 
[PDF, 41 KB] was issued on 10 June 2009, the second status 
report<http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-14dec09-en.pdf> 
[PDF, 61 KB] on 14 December 2009, the third status 
report<http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-01jun10-en.pdf> 
[PDF, 224 KB] on 1 June 2010, and the fourth status 
report<http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-18nov10-en.pdf> 
[PDF, 312 KB] on 18 November 2010. The purpose of these reports has been "to 
allow the GNSO to determine when, if ever, these recommendations and any 
ensuing policy require additional clarification or attention based on the 
results of the reports prepared by ICANN Staff." Presented in a prior report 
was that during GNSO calls in April and May 2010, following inquiry from ICANN 
Staff about whether or not additional Policy work should be considered, the 
GNSO decided that the success of the Policy and the low number of exemption 
requests demonstrated that modifications to the Policy were not warranted at 
that time. Further, since the time of those calls there have not been any 
additional GSNO discussions about the Policy and the number and frequency of 
reported exemption requests from registrars has dropped considerably.

The results of the AGP Limits Policy illustrate the success of ICANN's 
consensus-driven, bottom-up policy development process. Community members 
identified the problem, initiated policy discussions, generated a solution, and 
now monitor the results. The ICANN practice of encouraging and considering 
broad community input on policy issues leads to effective results.







Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

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