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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear Councillors,<br><br>Attached please find the revised draft GNSO Council minutes of 17 November 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The revision is noted below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><b><u><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In Item 6: Best Practices to address abusive domain registrations <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><b><u><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The original text:</span></u></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marika Konings</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> provided the Council with a brief update on the next steps with regards to the creation of non-binding best practices to help registrars and registries address the abusive registrations of domain names in accordance with the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Final Report. Following the submission of the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/discussion-paper-rap-best-practices-28sep11-en.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext'>discussion paper</span></a> by Staff, it is now up to the Council to decide on next steps. As also discussed in Dakar, the Council could opt to open a public comment period on the discussion paper in order to obtain community input. Alternatively, the Council could also decide to move forward with this topic by creating a Drafting Team which would be tasked to create a Charter for a Working Group as recommended in the discussion paper.</span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Which has been replaced with the following  text<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marika Konings</span></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> provided the Council with a brief update on the next steps with regards to the creation of non-binding best practices to help registrars and registries address the abusive registrations of domain names in accordance with the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Final Report. Following the initial suggestion to put it out for public comment as discussed in Dakar, which was not supported by all, it was suggested that the Council could also consider whether a Working Group should be created as a result of the </span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/discussion-paper-rap-best-practices-28sep11-en.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext'>discussion paper</span></a> <span class=apple-style-span>and if so if a Drafting Team should be formed to create the charter for such a Working Group. It is now up to the Council to decide on next steps.</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The comments received have been included in the revised draft minutes they will be deemed to have been approved for posting on 8 December 2011 as per the GNSO operating procedures:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://gnso.icann.org/council/gnso-operating-procedures-22sep11-en.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>“All comments received from GNSO Council members will be incorporated in the summary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>unless there are objections from other GNSO Council members.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Where there are objections, the Chair will attempt to resolve the issue (by reference to the audio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>transcript, if any) and secure agreement from the relevant GNSO Council members. If agreement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>is not achieved, the Chair will determine the final version of the minutes and will note areas in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>which agreement has not been achieved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Disputes: If any GNSO Council member disputes what he or she has said in the resulting draft<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>minutes, the recording and/or transcript of the meeting should be reviewed before minutes are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>approved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>The Chair will ensure the above procedure is complete and an approved version of the summary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>is circulated and made public within 21 days of the relevant meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>All minutes of meetings of the GNSO (and any working groups thereof) shall be approved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>promptly by the originating body. No later than the business day after the date on which they are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>approved by the Council, the minutes shall be made publicly available on the Website.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please let me know whether you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Glen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org">http://gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>