[council] Resolutions from the ICANN Board meeting on Thursday 12 Feb

[Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

The resolutions from the ICANN Board meeting on 12 Feb 2014, are available at:
https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2015-02-12-en

Key ones relevant to the GNSO include:

- approval of the GNSO Policy recommendations for  Inter-Registrar Transfer 
Policy Part D

- direction to staff to  immediately begin collecting data on the metrics 
recommended in the Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer 
Trust and Consumer Choice Final Report, prioritizing those that are 
time-sensitive, and where data has been determined to be available

- regarding two character second level domain names, the Board directs the 
staff to  proceed immediately as follows:

        ◾Implement improvements to the process to alert relevant governments 
when requests are initiated. 
        Comments from relevant governments will be fully considered.

        ◾For new requests, the comment period will be for 60 days.

        ◾For requests with pending or completed comment periods, extend or 
re-open the comment period 
        so that each request will undergo 60 days of comment period in total.