[council] GNSO Council motions 5 June 2014

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Councillors



Ahead of the official minutes, the following resolutions were passed by the 
GNSO Council at its meeting on Thursday, 5 June 2014.



1. Motion to Close the Study Phase of GNSO Whois Policy Work



WHEREAS



1. In October 2007, the GNSO Council concluded that a comprehensive and 
objective understanding of key factual issues regarding the gTLD Whois system 
would benefit future GNSO policy development efforts 
(http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/).



2. In 2008, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) provided recommendations 
for Whois Studies

(http://www.icann.org/correspondence/karlins-to-thrush-16apr08.pdf), which were 
taken into account as the hypothesis for each study were developed.



3. Between 2009 and 2012 the GNSO Council had approved a number of studies on 
certain aspects of the Whois system, specifically, studies relating to Whois 
Misuse, Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse and Whois Registrant 
Identification, a Whois Privacy & Proxy Relay & Reveal Feasibility Survey and a 
Whois Service Requirements Survey;



4. All the approved studies have now been completed and the results published 
(see http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/other/whois/studies);



5. The GNSO Council has reviewed the studies and their results (see summary 
document at 
http://whois.icann.org/sites/default/files/files/executive-summary-studies-05jun14-en.pdf)



6. The GNSO Council believes that the studies and their results may be helpful 
with respect to ongoing policy work within the GNSO and in the ICANN community 
concerning improvements

to and replacement of the Whois protocol and system.



RESOLVED,



1. The GNSO Council thanks all the research teams that performed each of the 
approved studies, and hereby formally closes this study phase of the GNSO's 
Whois policy work.



2. The GNSO Council encourages current and future community groups engaged in 
Whois policy work to continue to consult and review the results of the approved 
Whois studies, and to

 recommend to the GNSO Council any future policy work which may need to be done 
by the GNSO as a result.



3. The GNSO Council requests that the GNSO Council Chair communicates the 
completion of the Whois studies and their results to the GAC Chair.





2. Motion on the Initiation of a Policy Development Process (PDP) on IGO and 
INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms



WHEREAS:



1. In November 2013 the GNSO Council had requested an Issue Report on the topic 
of amending the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Uniform Rapid 
Suspension procedure (URS) to enable International Governmental Organizations 
(IGOs) and International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) to access and 
use these curative rights protection mechanisms;



2. The GNSO Council's request was the result of the GNSO Council's adoption in 
November 2013 of a consensus recommendation from the PDP Working Group on the 
Protection of International Organization Identifiers in All gTLDs (IGO-INGO PDP 
WG);



3. ICANN staff published the Preliminary Issue Report on the Access by IGOs and 
INGOs to the Curative Rights Protections of the UDRP and URS in a public 
comment forum that opened on 10 March 2014, and closed on 6 May 2014;



4. ICANN staff have reviewed the public comments received, published a Report 
of Public Comments and updated the Issue Report accordingly;



5. The Final Issue Report on the Access by IGOs and INGOs to the Curative 
Rights Protections of the UDRP and URS was published on 26 May 2014 
(http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/igo-ingo-crp-final-25may14-en.pdf);



6. The Final Issue Report recommends that the GNSO Council proceed with a 
Policy Development Process (PDP) limited to consideration of the issues 
discussed in the report, and the General Counsel of ICANN has indicated the 
topic is properly within the scope of the ICANN policy process and within the 
scope of the GNSO.



RESOLVED:



1. The GNSO Council hereby initiates a PDP to evaluate: (i) whether the UDRP 
and/or URS should be amended (to enable their access and use by IGOs and INGOs 
whose identifiers had been recommended for protection by the IGO-INGO PDP WG) 
and if so, in what way; or (ii) whether a separate narrowly-tailored procedure 
modeled on these curative rights protection measures to apply only to protected 
IGO and INGO identifiers should be developed.



2. The GNSO Council requests that the PDP Working Group be convened as soon as 
possible to fulfill the requirements of this PDP in an expedited manner.



If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you very much

Kind regards,

Glen



Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

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

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