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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">One of the GNSO</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s action items in our 8 December Council meeting is to consider the proposed charter of a community</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">DNS</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Security & Stability</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Analysis</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> WG. In that regard I am</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">submitting</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the following motion.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">MOTION APPROVING THE DRAFT CHARTER OF THE JOINT DNS SECURITY AND STABILITY ANALYSIS WORKING GROUP</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(DSSA-WG)</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><BR>
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<FONT FACE="Calibri">WHEREAS,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">at their meetings during the ICANN Brussels meeting in June 2010 the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), and the Number Resource Organization (NRO) acknowledged the need for a better understanding of the security and stability of the global domain name system (DNS);</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">WHEREAS,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">this issue is considered to be of common interest to the participating Supporting Organisations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs) and others, and should be preferably undertaken in a collaborative effort;</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">WHEREAS,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the ALAC, ccNSO, GNSO and NRO agreed to establish a Joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis Working Group (DSSA-WG), in accordance with each organization’s own rules and procedures and invite other AC’s to liaise and engage with the DSSA-WG in a manner they consider to be appropriate;</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT FACE="Calibri">WHEREAS, a Drafting Team of the Chairs of the ccNSO, the ALAC, and the GNSO, along with interested representatives from those organizations, produced a Draft Charter and posted it for the review of the participating SOs and ACs on 15 November 2010 at <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri"><A HREF="http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/dssa-draft-charter-12nov10-en.pdf">http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/dssa-draft-charter-12nov10-en.pdf</A>></FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">;<BR>
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NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">RESOLVED, that the GNSO Council approves this Draft Charter and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">encourages GNSO constituencies, stakeholder groups, and other GNSO participants to identify possible participants of the DSSA-WG with demonstrated expertise in the objectives of the Draft Charter.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></B></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chuck</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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