[council] GNSO Council Resolutions and Action Items 16 April 2009

[Glen de Saint Géry]

Dear Councillors,

Ahead of the official minutes, the following motions were voted on during the Council meeting on Thursday, 16 April 2009. The final result will be communicated when the absentee ballots have been received for both motions. Absentee voting closes on Sunday, 19 April at 16:10 UTC.

MOTION 1
Proposed Motion on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part A Policy Development Process (PDP)
MOTION 2
Next round of IRTP issues to address

The Council passed the following resolution on Travel Funding by voice vote at the meeting on 16 April 2009. Two 'Nay' votes were heard.

Present at the time of voting:
Philip Sheppard, Cyril Chua, Tony Holmes, Tony Harris, Greg Ruth, William Drake, Tim Ruiz, Stephane van Gelder, Chuck Gomes, Terry Davis, Olga Cavalli, Avri Doria.

Absent: Mike Rodenbaugh, Zahid Jamil, Ute Decker, Kristina Rosette, Mary Wong, Carlos Souza, Adrian Kinderis, Jordi Iparraguirre, Edmon Chung.

Motion on Travel Funding

Made by Stéphane van Gelder
Seconded by Philip Sheppard

Whereas:

At its meeting of September 25, 2008 the GNSO Council created the Travel
Drafting Team (TDT) to work on proposals to optimize the allocation and the
management of Travel Funding for the GNSO Constituencies.

At a meeting held during the Mexico ICANN meeting in March 2009 between the
TDT and members of ICANN staff, the TDT requested that all GNSO
Constituencies receive Funding Slots for each of their elected Councillors
at each one of the three yearly international ICANN meetings, with the
understanding that it would then be up to each Constituency to allocate
these slots according to their own internal processes.

That request stemmed in part from the recognition of the significant, and
ever increasing work loads, that GNSO Councillors face. Work which they
carry out as unpaid volunteers.

Since that meeting it has been identified that an amount of funds left over
from the DNSO are available for use should the Council wish to provide
additional Travel Funding to those GNSO Constituencies that no longer have
enough credits left for their three slots for the final meeting of the
fiscal year 2008, in Sydney.

The funds identified are in the amount of 19,963.79 USD.

Resolved:

That the DNSO funds be distributed evenly across all six GNSO Constituencies
in time for the Sydney meeting in June, with the express purpose of
providing additional Travel Funding for those persons nominated by each
Constituency as recipients to be of said Travel Support.

The Action items arising from the Council meeting:
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     Item 6: Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) Motion Action Items (continued from    previous Council meeting) 

Council formed a drafting team to recommend how to proceed on the two tasks: 
1)  how to go about drafting a charter of registrant rights;
2)  how to form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the RAA and to identify those on which further action may be desirable.  

The Drafting Team (DT) will have 30 days from Board approval.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: please let the GNSO Secretariat know if you would like to be subscribed to the drafting team.

     Item 11.7 Restructuring Group

A meeting to be scheduled for the group to meet, preferably in the week 20-24 April and to report back to Council at the next Council meeting on 7 May 2009.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
kind regards,

Glen

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