RE: [registrars] FW: [council] GNSO Council meeting agenda and dial-in details
Adrian, It may be useful for you to know about the work we've been doing on the WHOIS study group as I see there's an item about it on the agenda. As a reminder, the group was formed at the behest of the GNSO council and given as its main mission the task of drawing up a list of studies which should be undertaken regarding WHOIS. A list of 7 study areas was drawn up, but it's so far proved impossible to reach consensus within the group on the fundamental questions of "should any further studies be done on WHOIS at all?". Several members of the group feel that there's already been too much time and effort spent studying WHOIS and that any more studies would achieve nothing beyond further delaying actual decision-making on the WHOIS issue. Other members feel that further studies would be useful, especially in areas which have become increasingly relevant in the last few years and where extra information would be welcome, such as private WHOIS services. Being half French half, English and 100% European :-) I've made a point of highlighting to the group the specifics of WHOIS systems currently used in France and Europe and of describing the legal environment which we Europeans find ourselves in regarding WHOIS. There are other members of the RC on the group (Paul, Krista, James and Eric) who have also provided the group with registrars' viewpoints. Our discussions occur on the group mailing list and so far we've had 4 group telephone meetings (we meet for an hour every Tuesday). The group was initially scheduled to report to the GNSO council by the end of April, but this proved impossible and we requested more time. We now have until the second to last week of May. I hope this helps and would be happy to provide more details if required (I've tried to keep this email as short as possible). Stéphane Van Gelder Directeur Général / General manager INDOM – Noms de domaine / Domain names 124-126, rue de Provence 75008 Paris. France 0820 77 7000 (Prix d'un appel local) De l'étranger (calling from outside France): + 33 1 76 70 05 67 www.indom.com Daily domain name industry news: www.domaines.info Mon blog/My blog : www.stephanevangelder.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Kinderis Sent: jeudi 8 mai 2008 05:02 To: Registrars Constituency and observers Subject: [registrars] FW: [council] GNSO Council meeting agenda and dial-in details All, Please find the agenda for the upcoming GNSO council call. Let me know if there are any particular issues you wish to discuss further. Adrian Kinderis Managing Director AusRegistry Group Pty Ltd Level 8, 10 Queens Road Melbourne. Victoria Australia. 3004 Ph: +61 3 9866 3710 Fax: +61 3 9866 1970 Email: adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: www.ausregistrygroup.com The information contained in this communication is intended for the named recipients only. It is subject to copyright and may contain legally privileged and confidential information and if you are not an intended recipient you must not use, copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this communication in error, please delete all copies from your system and notify us immediately. Agenda 08 May 2008 Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 8 May 2008 This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council Coordinated Universal Time12:00 UTC - see below for local times (05:00 Los Angeles, 08:00 Washington DC, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 22:00 Melbourne) Avri Doria will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting Scheduled time for meeting 120 mins. Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members. Item 0: Roll call of Council members Item 1: Update any statements of interest Item 2: Review/amend agenda Item 3: Approve GNSO Council minutes of 27 March 2008 and 17 April 2008 (5 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04962.html http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04999.html Item 4: Update from Denise Michel on Board activities (10 mins) Item 5: Update from Edmon Chung on IDNC (10 mins) Item 6: Front-running discussion (15 mins) Should the council initiate a drafting team to work with staff to define a pre-issues research effort? If so, what sort of expertise is required and what questions need to be asked? Item 7: Fast-Flux vote on motions (20 mins) Moved: Mike Rodenbaugh Seconded: Friendly amendment: Philip Sheppard http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04958.html MOTION 1 =============== Whereas, "fast flux" DNS changes are increasingly being used to commit crime and frustrate law enforcement efforts to combat crime, with criminals rapidly modifying IP addresses and/or nameservers in effort to evade detection and shutdown of their criminal website; Whereas, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee has reported on this trend in its Advisory SAC 025, dated January 2008: http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025.pdf/ Whereas, the SSAC Advisory describes the technical aspects of fast flux hosting, explains how DNS is being exploited to abet criminal activities, discusses current and possible methods of mitigating this activity, and recommends that appropriate bodies consider policies that would make practical mitigation methods universally available to all registrants, ISPs, registrars and registries, Whereas, the GNSO resolved on March 6, 2008 to request an Issues Report from ICANN Staff, to consider the SAC Advisory and outline potential next steps for GNSO policy development designed to mitigate the current ability for criminals to exploit the NS via "fast flux" IP and/or nameserver changes; Whereas, the ICANN Staff has prepared an Issues Report dated March 25, 2008, http://gnso.icann.org/issues/fast-flux-hosting/gnso-issues-report-fast-f lux-25mar08.pdf, recommending that the GNSO sponsor additional fact-finding and research to develop best practices guidelines concerning fast flux `hosting, and to provide data to assist policy development and illuminate potential policy options.; Whereas, ICANN should consider whether and how it might encourage registry operators and registrars to take steps that would help to reduce the damage done by cybercriminals, by curtailing the effectiveness of these fast flux hosting exploits. The GNSO Council RESOLVES: To initiate a Policy Development Process uniquely on the issues deemed in scope in the Issues report. (This will require a 33% vote) MOTION 2 (Contingent on success of Motion 1) ============================================= Whereas Council has decided to launch a PDP on fast flux hosting; The GNSO Council RESOLVES: To form a Task Force of interested stakeholders and Constituency representatives, to collaborate broadly with knowledgeable individuals and organizations, in order to develop potential policy options to curtail the criminal use of fast flux hosting. The Task Force initially shall consider the following questions: Who benefits from fast flux, and who is harmed? Who would benefit from cessation of the practice and who would be harmed? How are registry operators involved in fast flux hosting activities? How are registrars involved in fast flux hosting activities? How are registrants affected by fast flux hosting? How are Internet users affected by fast flux hosting? What measures could be implemented by registries and registrars to mitigate the negative effects of fast flux? What would be the impact (positive or negative) of establishing limitations, guidelines, or restrictions on registrants, registrars and/or registries with respect to practices that enable or facilitate fast flux hosting? The Task Force shall report back to Council within 90 days, with a report discussing these questions and the range of possible answers developed by the Task Force members. The Task Force report also shall outline potential next steps for Council deliberation. (This will require a 50% vote) Chuck Gomes alternate/contingent motion http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04995.html "Whereas: The Security and Stability Advisory Committee reported on "fast flux" DNS changes in its January 2008 Advisory SAC 025 (http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025.pdf/), The GNSO resolved on March 6, 2008 to request an Issues Report from ICANN Staff to consider the SAC Advisory and outline potential next steps for GNSO policy development designed to mitigate the current ability for criminals to exploit DNS via "fast flux" IP and/or nameserver changes. ICANN Staff prepared an Issues Report dated March 25, 2008 (http://gnso.icann.org/issues/fast-flux-hosting/gnso-issues-report-fast- flux-25mar08.pdf) recommending that the GNSO sponsor additional fact-finding and research to develop best practices guidelines concerning fast flux hosting and that it may be appropriate for the ccNSO also to participate in such an activity, Resolve that: The Council form a drafting team of interested and qualified individuals to develop a list of questions regarding "fast flux" hosting for which answers would facilitate pending action by the Council regarding policy development work and task that team with submitting the list to the Council not later then 22 May 2008, Form an expert panel consisting of volunteers from groups such as the SSAC, the APWG, and constituencies that have expertise related to the use of fast flux and task that group with answering as best as possible the questions delivered by the drafting team and delivering those answers to the Council NLT 11 June 2008. The Council decide whether or not to initiate a "fast flux" PDP as soon as possible after receipt of answers from the expert panel. Item 8: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Review - next steps (20 mins) Chuck Gomes' motion http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04994.html GNSO Council Motion regarding Additional IRTP PDPs Motion from Chuck Gomes, 21 April 2008 Whereas: The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) is an existing consensus policy under review by the GNSO, An IRTP working group examined possible areas for improving the existing policy and delivered its outcome in August 2007 in a report posted at http://www.gnso.icann.org/drafts/Transfer-Policy-Issues-23aug07.pdf and this report provided a list of potential issues to address for improvement of the transfer policy, In September 2007 a working group was tasked by the GNSO Council to assign priorities to the remaining issues in the report (i.e., those not addressed in the PDP underway regarding four reasons for denial of a registrar transfer) resulting in the prioritized issue list contained in that group's report at http://www.gnso.icann.org/drafts/irdx-policy-priorities-20dec07.pdf, In its meeting on 17 January 2008 the GNSO Council requested a small group of volunteers arrange the prioritized issue list into suggested PDPs, The small group delivered its recommended PDPs on19 March 2008 in its report athttp://gnso.icann.org/drafts/transfer-wg-recommendations-pdp-groupings -19mar08.pdf, Resolve that five PDPs be initiated one at a time in the order suggested by the small group and shown here: PDP ID PDP Category Name Policy Issue #'s A New IRTP Issues 1, 3, 12 B Undoing Registrar Transfers 2, 7, 9 C IRTP Operational Rule Enhancements 5, 6, 15*, 18 D IRTP Dispute Policy Enhancements 4, 8, 16, 19 E Penalties for IRTP Violations 10 First part of issue only Resolve that the recommendations of the small group be approved to not initiate PDPs at this time for issues 11, 13, 14, the second par of 15, and 17. Item 9: Discussion on pending budget measure for domain tasting (10 mins) http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-23jan08.htm THEREFORE, the Board resolves (2008.01.04) to encourage ICANN's budgetary process to include fees for all domains added, including domains added during the AGP, and encourages community discussion involved in developing the ICANN budget, subject to both Board approval and registrar approval of this fee. Item 10: Single character 2 letter domain names (10 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-synthesis-on-sldns-27feb08.pdf Item 11: Status update on Whois proposals (5 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04998.html Item 12: GNSO Improvements - discussion (15 mins) Item 13: Action Items (5 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf Item 14: AOB Attachment:
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