[council] Final version of RAA amendment/motion

[Alan Greenberg]

As does ALAC.  Alan

At 04/03/2009 07:57 AM, William Drake wrote:
>Hi Tim,
>
>This is news to us.  NCUC much prefers the language we agreed on Sunday.
>
>Bill
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>On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Tim Ruiz 
><<mailto:tim at godaddy.com>tim at godaddy.com> wrote:
>
>Thought I should point out that the only change from the version that
>was circulated Sunday afternoon is in the last paragraph of the resolve.
>
>The Sunday afternoon version read:
>
>Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO
>Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss the amendments further and
>identify those that the community believes could be further revised
>through PDP processes or through additional changes to the RAA that may
>not fall within scope of a formal PDP process. The Drafting Team should
>endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later
>then July 31, 2009.
>
>It has been changed to:
>
>Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO
>Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the
>RAA.
>The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council
>and
>ICANN staff no later then July 31, 2009.
>
>
>Tim
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: [council] Final version of RAA amendment/motion
>From: "Tim Ruiz" <<mailto:tim at godaddy.com>tim at godaddy.com>
>Date: Tue, March 03, 2009 3:40 pm
>To: <mailto:council at gnso.icann.org>council at gnso.icann.org
>
>The attached, also copied below, is the final version of the motion many
>of us have worked on. It reflects all the changes that we've discussed.
>Not completely sure of the best way to frame it for voting, but would
>like to suggest that we consider it the only motion on this subject that
>we vote on tomorrow.
>
>Tim
>
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>Whereas, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) has not been
>amended since May 2001, and ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative
>process related to amending the RAA, including several public comment
>periods and consultations;
>
>Whereas, the proposed changes to the RAA include important compliance
>and enforcement tools for ICANN; The Council wishes to approve the set
>of proposed amendments as quickly as possible so that the ICANN Board
>may review them, and if approved then implement them as quickly as
>possible; and
>
>Whereas,
>
>The Council would like to proceed on the drafting of a charter
>identifying registrant rights that registrars would be obliged to link
>to, as contemplated in the set of amendments;
>
>The Council would like a specific process and timeline to move forward
>with additional potential amendments to the RAA; and
>
>The Registrar Constituency is supportive of these efforts and is willing
>to participate on a good faith basis on anticipated next steps.
>
>Resolved:
>
>The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in
><http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pdf>http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pdf
>and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March
>6, 2009;
>
>Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments,
>representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified
>to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated
>by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support
>from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later then July
>31; and
>
>Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO
>Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the
>RAA.
>The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council
>and
>ICANN staff no later then July 31, 2009.
>
>
>
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>--
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>William J. Drake
>Senior Associate
>Centre for International Governance
>Graduate Institute for International and
>  Development Studies
>  Geneva, Switzerland
>william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
>New book: Governing Global Electronic Networks,
><http://tinyurl.com/5mh9jj>http://tinyurl.com/5mh9jj
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