[council] Resolutions passed by the GNSO Council Thursday, 4 September 2014

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Councillors,

Ahead of the Council minutes, please find the resolutions passed by the GNSO 
Council at its meeting on Thursday, 4 September 2014.

Consent agenda:

1.     Council approved thanking ICANN Contractual Compliance for its 
presentation of their three-year plan and continued collaboration with the GNSO 
in future policy development efforts

AND

2.     Considering the issues identified in the Uniformity of Reporting Final 
Issue Report to have been addressed and to consider the issue closed.

3.     The Council confirmed the Co-Chairs for the Working Group on Curative 
Rights Protections for IGO/INGOs (IGO-INGO-CRP) PDP working group, namely 
Philip Corwin and Petter Rindforth.

Council passed the resolution to appoint a GNSO Liaison to the Governmental 
Advisory Committee

Whereas:

  1.  As part of the discussions within ICANN between the GNSO and GAC, on how 
to facilitate early engagement of the GAC in GNSO policy development 
activities, the option of appointing a GNSO liaison to the GAC has been 
proposed as one of the mechanisms to explore.
  2.  As such, the GAC-GNSO Consultation Group (CG) on GAC Early Engagement in 
GNSO policy development activities proposed to implement this option as a 
one-year pilot program in FY15 (starting 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015).
  3.  This mechanism will be evaluated at the end of FY 15, by both the GNSO 
Council and the GAC, to determine whether or not to continue in either in the 
same form or with possible adjustments based on the feedback received.
  4.  Following a call for candidates 
(seehttp://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg16435.html), five 
applications were received
all of which were evaluated by the GNSO Council Leadership based on the 
criteria outlined in the call for candidates.
  5.  Mason Cole was unanimously selected by the GNSO Council Leadership as the 
preferred candidate.

Resolved:

  1.  The GNSO Council hereby appoints Mason Cole to the role of GNSO Liaison 
to the Governmental Advisory Committee until 30 June 2015.
  2.  The GNSO Council Leadership Team will co-ordinatewith Mason Cole as well 
as the GAC-GNSO Consultation Group on next steps and the successful 
implementation of this new role.

Council  adopted a Charter for a Cross Community Working Group to Develop an 
IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions
Whereas,

  1.  The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has 
requested that ICANN "convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to 
transition the U.S. government stewardship role" with regard to the IANA 
Functions and related root zone management.
  2.  On June 6 2014, ICANN proposed the creation of an IANA Stewardship 
Transition Coordination Group (ICG) "responsible for preparing a transition 
proposal reflecting the differing needs of the various affected parties of the 
IANA functions."
  3.  It was determined that the transition proposal should be developed within 
the directly affected communities (i.e. the IETF for development of standards 
for Internet Protocol Parameters; the NRO, the ASO, and the RIRs for functions 
related the management and distribution of numbering resources; and the GNSO 
and ccNSO for functions related to the Domain Name System). These efforts would 
inform the work of the ICG, whose responsibility would be to fashion an overall 
integrated transition proposal from these autonomously developed components.
  4.  Following distribution of an invitation to participate, a drafting team 
(DT) was formed with participants from the ccNSO, GNSO, SSAC and ALAC to 
develop a charter for a Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA 
Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions.
  5.  The DT delivered the proposed 
charter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/iana-stewardship-naming-function-charter-14aug14-en.pdf>
 for consideration to the ccNSO, GNSO, SSACC and ALAC

Resolved,

  1.  The GNSO Council approves the 
Charter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/iana-stewardship-naming-function-charter-14aug14-en.pdf>
 and appoints Jonathan Robinson as the GNSO Council liaison and member to the 
CWG.
  2.  Each GNSO Stakeholder Group will identify one member for the CWG by 15 
September taking into account the charter requirement that best efforts should 
be made to ensure that members:

  *   Have sufficient expertise to participate in the applicable subject matter;
  *   Commit to actively participate in the activities of the CWG on an ongoing 
and long-term basis; and
  *   Where appropriate, solicit and communicate the views and concerns of 
individuals in the organization that appoints them.

3. The GNSO will collaborate with the other SOs and ACs to issue a call for 
observers to join the CWG, each in accordance with its own rules.

4. Until the CWG selects its co-chairs for the CWG, the GNSO Council recommends 
that the co-chairs of the Drafting Team shall serve as the interim co-chairs of 
the CWG.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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