[council] Draft GNSO Council Agenda 25 September 2008

Fri Sep 19 15:03:22 UTC 2008

Does 4.7 include the presentation/discussion by staff that Denise referenced in our last meeting? 

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Dear Councilors,

Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 25 September 2008

This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council

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Chuck Gomes 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 4 September 2008 (Items 0-3 10 mins )

Item 4: Status Update (15 mins)
4.1 ICANN Board

4.2 Fast Flux PDP WG

4.3 Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part A PDP

4.4 New gTLDs

4.5 Fast Track

4.6 AGP

4.7 RAA Amendments

Item 5: Discussion on GNSO Response concerning Geo Regions (15 mins) ICANN Geographic Regions
-- Constituency feedback
-- Next Steps

Item 6: Discussion/Decision GNSO Restructuring and Plan (25 mins)
-- Overview of Plan
https://st.icann.org/gnso_transition/index.cgi?gnso_improvements

Item 7: ICANN subsidization of GNSO travel expenses (10 mins).

- longer term procedure
--Next Steps

Item 8: Planning for Cairo (15 mins)

8.1 Proposal for Trans-Silo Joint meeting (ccNSO, GNSO, GAC, ALAC) on Monday 3 November 2008
8.2 Thursday 6 November 2008
Proposed Topics:
* Issues at the cross-section of implementation of New gTLD (LDH & IDN), and Fast Track IDNccTLDs
* ICANN Transition and the PSC
8.3 Other

Item 9: Whois Hypotheses Study Group (10 mins) http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-study-hypothesis-group-report-to-council-26aug08.pdf
-- Constituency feedback
-- Next Steps

Item 10: Motion on request for issues report on Registration Abuse Policies. (10 mins)
Motion: Mike Rodenbaugh Second: Greg Ruth
Whereas:
1. ICANN's mission is to ensure the security and stability of the DNS, and to develop policy reasonably related to that mission.
2. Various forms of DNS abuse, in isolation and/or in the aggregate, cause a less secure and stable DNS.
3. Some of ICANN's gTLD registry agreements and appended registry-registrar agreements contain a provision such as Section 3.6.5 of the.info Registry Agreement, Appendix 8 :
3.6.5. (Registrars) acknowledge and agree that Afilias reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration or transaction, or place any domain name(s) on registry lock, hold or similar status, that it deems necessary, in its discretion; (1) to protect the integrity and stability of the registry; (2) to comply with any applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, or any dispute resolution process; (3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Afilias, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, and employees; (4) per the terms of the registration agreement or (5) to correct mistakes made by Afilias or any Registrar in connection with a domain name registration.
Afilias also reserves the right to place upon registry lock, hold or similar status a domain name during resolution of a dispute.

4. Afilias, the dotInfo Registry Operator, per its recent RSEP request, has sought to clarify and implement its specific abusive registration policy with respect to this provision. This request has been approved by ICANN.
5. Some of ICANN's gTLD registry agreements, notably the Verisign contracts for .com and .net, have no such provision. Other gTLD registry agreements do contain such provision, but the registry operators have not developed or have inconsistently developed abusive registration policies.
The GNSO Council resolves to request an Issues Report from ICANN Staff with respect to the following:
1. To identify and describe the various provisions in existing and previous gTLD registry and registry-registrar agreements which relate to contracting parties' ability to take action in response to abuse.
2. To identify and describe various provisions in a representative sampling of gTLD registration agreements which relate to contracting parties' and/or registrants rights and obligations with respect to abuse.
3. To identify and describe any previous discussion in ICANN fora which substantively pertains to provisions of this nature in any of these agreements.
4. To identify and describe potential options for further Council consideration, relating to consistency and propriety of provisions of this nature in all of these agreements.

Item 11: Any Other Business (5 mins)

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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org