[council] Regarding support for GNSO Policy work in Operational plan

[Bruce Tonkin]

From:
http://www.icann.org/financials/proposed-budget-fy06-07-17may06.pdf 



Designation of new gTLDs 
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* Develop capacity to support the Policy Development Process
consideration of economic, 
consumer, market and business issues through the engagement of expertise
in economics and 
statistics. 

* Introduction of New gTLDs - Pending the finalization of the PDP on
introduction of new 
gTLDs, ICANN will be implementing the consensus policy that the GNSO is
reaching 
agreement upon. Policy questions that will affect the implementation of
this policy are: 
selection criteria, allocation method, and contractual policy related
topics. After successful 
implementation of the policy, interested applicants will be able to
submit their proposals to 
ICANN for introduction of new gTLDs. 

* Develop and implement program for universal acceptance of gTLDs (i.e.,
registries with 
more than three letters). 


WHOIS development 
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* See gTLD Registry tasks and policy implementation: Establish within
ICANN the 
infrastructure, resources and workflow for consideration of new registry
applications by the 
implementation of the ICANN consensus policy. Apply methodology to
results of Whois 
policy development. 



Addressing issues of DNS market behaviour (within IP addresses and
domain names) 
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* See gTLD Compliance - work to improve Whois accuracy. 

* Set-up task force with appropriate economic, technical and statistical
skill sets to determine 
root causes of market behaviour and determine if practices are
appropriate: 
o Add storm 
o Add/deletes 
o RGP 
o Whois accuracy 

As appropriate, make recommendations to create incentives, amend
agreements (see, 
restructure of RAA above), and implement new services that will mitigate
that behaviour. 


Develop capacity to better understand economic issues and the 
implications of these factors on ICANN policy development 
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* Facilitate the Policy Development Process consideration of economic,
user, market and 
business issues through the retention of expertise in economic studies
and statistical analysis. 


Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Supporting Organizations and

Advisory Committees 
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* In collaboration with the Supporting Organisations and Advisory
Committees, develop and 
implement effective collaboration tools to facilitate the policy
development process. 

* Provide economic assistance to volunteering organisations that
includes appropriate cost 
controls and cost-benefit analysis: 

	o Investigate and implement a travel assistance policy for
Supporting Organisation 
volunteers, 

	o Provide Secretariat services to the NCUC to enhance the
effectiveness of this 
constituency group. 

	o In a collaborative fashion determine how to enhance
stakeholder participation in 
RSSAC and SSAC led discussions that are so important to ICANN's
stability & 
security mission. 



* Through the Vice President, Policy Development Support: 

	o accomplish the objectives set out in the strategic plan
regarding the reviews to 
measure the efficiency and effectiveness of Supporting Organizations and

Advisory Committees through statistical surveys to determine present 
effectiveness, 

	o identify & manage new & existing policy development
requirements through 
interaction in the community (updating those requirements throughout the
year), 

	o maintain a docket of all pending policy development matters,
including their 
schedule and current status 

	o retain economics expertise to develop frameworks for
establishing objective 
performance criteria and measuring performance against the criteria, 

	o develop a Policy Development Process involving and
coordinating the activities 
of Supporting Organisations and Advisory Groups 



Board meetings & Other Travel  ($5.9 million in 2006/2007 budget,
compared with $3.7 million in 05/06)
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(4) This line item includes budget for ICANN meetings, Board travel and
staff travel. Also 
included are ICANN attended or sponsored meetings as indicated in the
operating plan. This year 
ICANN has also included a provision to provide some assistance to
selected volunteer members 
of the ICANN community who could not otherwise attend task force or
other ICANN meetings. 
Travel assistance will be provided on a case-by-case basis only after
the trip request is evaluated 
and deemed to have a value-added component for ICANN and the community.