[ispcp] Brief notes of ISPCP call held 13 Jan 2011

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Brief notes from the ISPCP conference call held on 13th January 2011

 

The call was held as preparation for the GNSO council meeting scheduled for
the same day.

 

1.       Joint Applicant support WG

An original motion carried forward from the last meeting, proposed by Rafik
Danmak was still on the table, proposing a charter extension in response to
the ICANN Board resolution supporting applicants and calling for completion
of a list of further work items. A counter motion opposing this extension
had been tabled by Jeff Neuman, following which Wolf- Ulrich Knoben has
attempted to find a compromise. However Wolf's proposal for a 'friendly
amendment' has not been accepted by Geoff, therefore this will be voted on
during the meeting. The ISPCP line will be to support Wolf-Ulrich's
proposal, but if this fails the ISPs will offer support for Jeff Neumans
proposal.

 

2.       Registrar Accreditation Agreement

A motion has been tabled to accept the report, but the Registrar's are
unable to accept the proposal that requires the involvement of a third party
in signing any agreement between ICANN and Registrars. The ISPs support this
approach in principle but have issues over who the third party would be and
how such an arrangement would be implemented. A final approach remains
dependent upon the resolution of those concerns.

 

3.       Status of Stakeholder Group and Constituency statements on
Recommendation 6

The main issue concerns the ability of the Board to initiate further
dialogue directly with the WG as this has the potential to short circuit the
discussion and responsibility for this work with relevant Support
Organizations. Working Group reports will all be submitted to relevant
Support Organizations for ratification. The ISPCP view is that any WG report
must not be filtered by the GNSO or any other S.O, although they are all
entitled to either endorse or reject the outcome. Such a position must not
inhibit any required further dialogue between the Board and any
Constituency/part of the community.

 

4.       Board Resolution on Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation

A briefing on this issue will be provided by Bruce Tonkin during the
meeting. No voting is anticipated on this issue.

Pending the outcome of this session ISPCP councilors will be seeking
representative to engage in this work going forward.

 

5.       Board Response to reconsideration requests

This item is for discussion only, with no additional action required from
ISP Councilors at this stage.

 

6.       Operations Steering Committee (OSC) and Policy Process Steering
Committee (PPSC) and new Standing Committee.

This item will consider actions required to take this work forward. The
ISPCP will support the proposal to establish a new standing committee to
oversee the implementation of the recommendations.

 

The next ISPCP call will take place on Wednesday 26th January from 16.00 to
17.00 UTC with the following items included on the agenda;

-          Issue for the next GNSO meeting

-          ISPCP Charter

-          Arrangements for San Francisco

-          ISPCP website