[council] Board resolutions from ICANN Board meeting in Istanbul on 9 September 2014

[Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

Below are the resolutions from the ICANN Board meeting in Istanbul on 9 
September 2014.

The key points were:

- appointment of Stephane Van Gelder be appointed as the 2015 NomCom Chair.

- approval of an RSTEP request for .ong and .ngo

- approval of the FY15 financial budget and operating plan

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin





 https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2014-09-09-en


Approved Board Resolutions | Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board

09 Sep 2014

1. Main Agenda
 
a. Appointment of 2015 Nominating Committee Chair and Chair-Elect

Whereas, the BGC reviewed the Expressions of Interest from candidates for the 
2014 Nominating Committee ("NomCom") Chair and Chair-Elect, considered the 
results of a 360-degree evaluation of the 2014 NomCom leadership, and evaluated 
response to questions posed by the BGC to each candidate.

Whereas, the BGC has recommended that Stephane Van Gelder be appointed as the 
2015 NomCom Chair.

Resolved (2014.09.09.01), the Board hereby appoints Stephane Van Gelder as the 
2015 Nominating Committee Chair.
 
 
2.Consent Agenda:
 
a.  Approval of Board Meeting Minutes

Resolved (2014.09.09.02), the Board approves the minutes of the 30 July 2014 
Meeting of the ICANN Board.

 
b.  Appointment of Benedict Addis to the Security & Stability Advisory 
Committee (SSAC)

Whereas, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) does review its 
membership and make adjustments from time-to-time.

Whereas, the SSAC Membership Committee, on behalf of the SSAC, requests that 
the Board should appoint Benedict Addis to the SSAC.

Resolved (2014.09.09.03), that the Board appoints Benedict Addis to the SSAC.
 

 
c.  Thank You from the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) to 
David Conrad

Whereas, the Board appointed David Conrad to the SSAC on 18 March 2011.

Whereas, Mr. Conrad resigned from the SSAC on 01 August 2014.

Whereas, ICANN wishes to acknowledge and thank Mr. Conrad for his service to 
the community by his membership on the SSAC.

Resolved (2014.09.09.04), that David Conrad has earned the deep appreciation of 
the Board for his service to ICANN by his membership on the SSAC, and that the 
Board wishes Mr. Conrad well in all future endeavors.
 


3.  Main Agenda:
 
a.  Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) Report on Public 
Interest Registry's Request to Implement Technical Bundling in .NGO and .ONG

Whereas, on 12 March 2014, Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted a Registry 
Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP) request [PDF, 24 KB] to offer mandatory 
technical bundling of second level domain names for .NGO and .ONG under 
Exhibit-A of each respective Registry Agreement.

Whereas, on 21 May 2014, ICANN staff posted the RSEP request for public 
information and conducted its review of the request under the RSEP.

Whereas, on 4 June 2014, ICANN staff's preliminary determination did not 
identify any significant competition issues. Separately, ICANN staff determined 
that the proposed registry service might raise significant stability or 
security issues, and informed [PDF, 320 KB] PIR of the need to refer the 
proposal to the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) for 
further evaluation.

Whereas, on 6 June 2014, ICANN referred PIR's RSEP request [PDF, 952 KB] to the 
RSTEP for further evaluation.

Whereas, on 10 June 2014, ICANN posted PIR's RSEP request for public comment. 
The public comment concluded on 30 July 2014 and no public comments were 
received.

Whereas, on 29 July 2014, the RSTEP report was posted for public comment. The 
public comment period concluded on 13 August 2014 and no public comments were 
received.

Whereas, the RSTEP report concluded that from a technical evaluation 
perspective, the proposal does not create "a reasonable risk of a meaningful 
adverse effect on stability or security" as defined in the RSEP Policy related 
to the introduction of the registry service to support the mandatory technical 
bundling of second level domain names for .NGO and .ONG. The RSTEP report and 
staff also identified several potential technical and implementation questions 
associated with introducing the proposed new registry service to the DNS, 
including: implications of unbundling of .NGO and .ONG; potential registrant 
and/or end user confusion; equivalency issues being discussed within the 
context of IDN variants; and other operational concerns.

Resolved (2014.09.09.05), the Board adopts the findings in the RSTEP report 
that PIR's proposal does not create "a reasonable risk of a meaningful adverse 
effect on stability or security", and approves PIR's request related to the 
introduction of the registry service to support the mandatory technical 
bundling of second level domain names for .NGO and .ONG.

Resolved (2014.09.09.06), the Board authorizes the President and CEO, or his 
designee(s), to develop an amendment to implement the new registry service that 
takes into account and appropriately addresses the related outstanding 
technical and implementation questions.
 

 
b.  Planning for Future gTLD Application Rounds

No resolution taken.

 
c.  FY15 Operating Plan and Budget

Whereas, the draft FY15 Operating Plan and Budget was posted for public comment 
in accordance with the Bylaws on 8 May 2014, which was based upon community 
consultations, and consultations throughout ICANN staff and the Board Finance 
Committee, during the past fiscal year.

Whereas, intervening activities and comments received from the public comment 
forum were taken into account to determine significant revisions to the 8 May 
2014 draft FY15 Operating Plan and Budget.

Whereas, in addition to the public comment forum, ICANN actively solicited 
community feedback and consultation with the ICANN community by other means, 
including online conference calls, meetings in Singapore and London, and email 
communications.

Whereas, the Board Finance Committee has discussed, and guided staff on, the 
development of the FY15 Operating Plan and Budget at each of its recent 
regularly scheduled meetings.

Whereas, the Board Finance Committee met on 19 August 2014 to discuss the final 
draft FY15 Operating Plan and Budget, and recommended that the Board adopts the 
FY15 Operating Plan and Budget.

Whereas, per section 3.9 of the 2001, 2009 and 2013 Registrar Accreditation 
Agreements, respectively, the Board is to establish the Registrar Variable 
Accreditation Fees, which must be established in order to develop the annual 
budget.

Whereas, the description of the Registrar fees, including the recommended 
Registrar Variable Accreditation Fees, for FY15 has been included in the FY15 
Operating Plan and Budget.

Resolved (2014.09.09.07), the Board adopts the FY15 Operating Plan and Budget 
and in doing so establishes the Variable Accreditation Fees (per registrar and 
transaction) as set forth in the FY15 Operating Plan and Budget.
 

d.  Final Draft of the ICANN Five-Year Strategic Plan (FY16-FY20)

Item removed from Agenda.

 
e.  Acknowledgment of Second At-Large Summit Declaration

Whereas, the Second At-Large Summit (ATLAS II) was held at the ICANN 50 meeting 
in London, United Kingdom in June 2014.

Whereas, ATLAS II has built on the first summit organized in March 2009 at the 
ICANN 34 meeting in Mexico.

Whereas, the Board has received the Final ATLAS II Declaration 
(https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/48338039/ATLAS-II-Declaration-with-appendix-RC9.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1407420726000&api=v2
 [PDF, 204 KB]).

Whereas, the At-Large community continues the Summit's spirit of engagement and 
enthusiasm through a set of post-ATLAS II implementation activities.

Resolved (2014.09.09.08), the Board acknowledges the Final ATLAS II 
Declaration, and extends its congratulations on the successful Summit held 
during ICANN 50 in London.

Resolved (2014.09.09.09), the Board affirms the significance of the ATLAS II 
Summit and its outcomes as valuable input from the At-Large community of 
individual Internet users towards strengthening ICANN.

Resolved (2014.09.09.10), the Board expresses its appreciation for the 
tremendous effort made by the At-Large community in delivering the At-Large 
Summit, the Final ATLAS II Declaration and the post-ATLAS II implementation 
activities.

Resolved (2014.09.09.11), the Board looks forward to following up with the ALAC 
on any inputs that are provided to the Board resulting from the Final ATLAS II 
Declaration.

Note: Three voting members of the Board abstained from voting on the 
resolutions. They stated for the record that they were supportive of the work 
resulting from the ATLAS, but wanted to draw attention to their encouragement 
for the Board to take future consideration of plans to develop the ATLAS into a 
regularly occurring event.
 

f.  AOB

No resolution taken.


Published on 11 September 2014

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