[council] Preliminary Issue Report on Uniformity of Reporting

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

https://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/uofr-20feb13-en.htm
Preliminary Issue Report on Uniformity of Reporting
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20 February 2013

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Report of Public Comments

Brief Overview

Originating Organization:

GNSO

Categories/Tags:

Policy Processes

Purpose (Brief):

At its October meeting last year the GNSO Council requested an Issue Report on 
the current state of uniformity in the mechanisms to initiate, track, and 
analyze policy-violation reports. ICANN Staff is also explicitly requested to 
provide its recommendation(s) on how this issue can be further addressed 
outside of a PDP if recommendations in relation to this issue do not require 
consensus policies to implement.

Current Status:

This Report is designated as "preliminary" to allow for community input and 
dialogue prior to the publication of the Final Issue Report.

Next Steps:

The Preliminary Issue Report will be updated to reflect community feedback 
submitted through this forum. A Final Issue Report will then be presented to 
the GNSO Council for its consideration.

Staff Contact:

Marika Konings

Email:

policy-staff@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:policy-staff@xxxxxxxxx?subject=More%20information%20on%20the%20Preliminary%20Issue%20Report%20on%20Uniformity%20of%20Reporting%20public%20comment%20period>

Detailed Information

Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose


This Preliminary Issue Report is published in response to a request by the GNSO 
Council for an Issue Report on the topic of Uniformity of Reporting, as a 
required preliminary step before a Policy Development Process (PDP) may be 
initiated.

The 2009 Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) identified in its 
Final Report the 'need for more uniformity in the mechanisms to initiate, 
track, and analyze policy-violation reports' and as a result recommended in its 
Final Report that "the GNSO and the larger ICANN community in general, create 
and support uniform reporting processes."

In March of 2012 based on the GNSO Council request, the ICANN Contractual 
Compliance Department presented its findings on existing systems that:

 *   report and track violations and/or complaints;
 *   detail improvements / changes made since the RAPWG Report or foreseen in 
the near future
 *   identify gaps and any improvements that might be desirable but not 
foreseen at this stage;

Further, the GNSO Council discussed the RAPWG recommendation in light of the 
feedback received from the ICANN Contractual Compliance Department and former 
members of the RAPWG volunteered to provide additional information on how the 
RAPWG recommendation could be implemented. Alumni members created and presented 
the findings to the GNSO Council in September of 2012.

During GNSO Council deliberations in October 2012, The GNSO Council requested 
an Issue Report on the current state of uniformity in the mechanisms to 
initiate, track, and analyze policy-violation reports. ICANN Staff is also 
explicitly requested to provide its recommendation(s) on how this issue can be 
further addressed outside of a PDP if recommendations in relation to this issue 
do not require consensus policies to implement.

ICANN Staff welcome community input on the findings as well as conclusions of 
this Preliminary Issue Report.

Section II: Background

The request for an Issue Report on this topic follows the work of the 
Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG). The RAPWG was tasked by the 
GNSO Council with defining abuse, making a determination between registration 
abuse versus use abuse, defining the most common forms of abuse, and 
understanding the effectiveness of abuse provisions within agreements in order 
to identify and recommend specific policy issues and processes for further 
consideration by the GNSO Council. The RAPWG identified a total of 14 
recommended actions that could address various forms of registration abuse. 
Some recommendations addressed WHOIS access issues, fake renewal notices, UDRP 
Review, malicious use of domain names and several others. The specific 
recommendation ultimately prompting this Issue Report stated: "the need for 
more uniformity in the mechanisms to initiate, track, and analyze 
policy-violation reports and that the GNSO and the larger ICANN community in 
general, create and support uniform reporting processes."

Section III: Document and Resource Links

Preliminary Issue Report on Uniformity of 
Reporting<http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/uofr-prelim-20feb13-en.pdf> [PDF, 
1.49 MB]

Section IV: Additional Information


 *   Thought paper from RAPWG Alumni 
Group<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg13484.html>
 *   The ICANN Contractual Compliance Department 
Report<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/contractual-compliance-report-reporting-uniformity-16mar12-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 522 KB]
 *   The RAPWG Final Report, section 
9.1<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/rap-wg-final-report-29may10-en.pdf> [PDF, 
1.7 MB]




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