[council] Request for clarification from IOC-RC Drafting Team

Fri Apr 20 11:12:37 UTC 2012

This is not a consent agenda item, but rather a discussion item.  It didn't need a resolution to start this drafting team and if is the willow the council to either continue this group or even abandon the group, it would not need a resolution of the council to do so,

Thanks.

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I agree that the question of keeping the DT active should be addressed by the Council.

I am happy to add that to our next meeting's agenda, as a consent agenda item, but it may be helpful if this discussion is started on the list before the meeting.

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Le 19 avr. 2012 à 05:15, <Mary.Wong at law.unh.edu> <Mary.Wong at law.unh.edu> a écrit :

	Thanks for adding the clarifications, Jeff - you're right that I'd assumed that some of the options would be obvious. 

	Cheers 
	Mary

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			RE: [council] Request for clarification from IOC-RC Drafting Team 

	Thanks to Mary for sending this note to the Council and I agree that clarification is needed.

	I do want to note a couple of points that were perhaps implicit in Mary's note, but not stated.  Yes, a coup,e of people from the NCSG questioned whether this group should continue, others from other constituencies and SGs did believe that the DT could still continue.  Even if ultimately a new group were formed in response to a PDP, the work of the DT could be used to inform the PDP process. So, one of the options included in Mary's e-mail is keeping the Drafting Team in place on the narrow issue of advising the GNSO on Its response to the GAC proposal dated September 14, 2011.   Whether or not we keep the drafting team in place, we do owe the GAC a response to its proposal, which is now over 7 months old.

	The other thing to keep in mind is that a Preliminary Issue report will not be out until Prague and a final one by the Toronto meeting.  This would be when the formal PDP would be launched and would also be over 12 months from when The GAC made its proposal to the GNSO regarding the IOC-RC names.

	So, let's get the discussion started at the Council to provide direction.

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	Subject:[council] Request for clarification from IOC-RC Drafting Team

	Dear Councilors,

	A question has arisen in the IOC-RC Drafting Team (DT), which as you'll recall was formed by the Council at the conclusion of the Dakar meeting to formulate an appropriate GNSO response to the GAC request of September 2011, regarding specific protections for the IOC and RCRC.

	In light of certain recent events, i.e. the April passage of a recent GNSO Council motion and two relevant Board resolutions, the DT requests clarification from the Council as to whether or not it is to continue with its discussions regarding second level protections for these two organizations.

	Since the DT is not a formal GNSO Working Group (WG), it does not have a formal charter that sets out clearly the scope of its work, which in any event may in the view of some have been superseded by these recent events anyway. While some in the DT believe there is no reason not to continue its deliberations for second level protections relating to the IOC and RCRC, others prefer that the Council (which was the body that formed it) provide further direction.

	Options include disbanding the DT in light of the pending Issue Report, forming a WG that would supersede it, or suspend the DT's work until either the Board's rationale for its resolutions is available or the conclusion of the Issue Report process (or both).

	Can the Council please provide some guidance on this question?

	FYI the language of our recent motion and the Board resolutions are:

	- The Council's recent passage of a motion to request an Issue Report on whether certain international organizations (to be defined/described) should be given additional protections at the top and second levels in the new gTLD program: http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201204;

	- The Board's recent resolution not to make further changes to the AGB at this time despite the Council's earlier passage of a motion recommending the adoption of the DT's proposals for additional protections for the IOC and RCRC: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-10apr12-en.htm (GNSO Council motion: http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201203); and

	- The Board's recent resolution to request a staff briefing paper on defensive registrations and second level protections as well as for the GNSO to consider whether "additional work on defensive registrations at the second level" should be undertaken: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-10apr12-en.htm.

	Thanks and cheers
	Mary

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	Chair, Graduate IP Programs
	Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
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