[council] Amendments to IOC/RCRC Motion

Mon Mar 26 16:07:54 UTC 2012

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Policy Committee statement appearing in the ICANN public forum as
gibberish; attached is the statement from the NCSG Policy Committee on
the issue. 

Thanks, 
Mary

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From:  
Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> 

To: 
"Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman at neustar.us>, "council at gnso.icann.org GNSO"
<council at gnso.icann.org> 

Date:  
3/26/2012 11:46 AM 

Subject:  
Re: [council] Amendments to IOC/RCRC Motion 

I have no rights to amend the motion, but I would like to suggest the
following amendment if anyone else is prepared to formally propose it.

The rationale is that it is now reasonably clear that:
- There may be requests to widen the concept to other international
organizations;
- There have been recommendations that any such changes not mention
particular organizations but be more generic;
- There is concern in the community over the overall concept;
- There is concern in the community about making permanent the Board
Name reservation which did not have bottom-up input of community
involvement.

Replace:

Recommendation 3:    Protections should apply for all future rounds,
but may be reviewed after the first round.

            In its proposal, the GAC has recommended that the
protections for the IOC and RCRC should not just apply during the first
round of new gTLDs, but should be a permanent protection afforded for
all subsequent rounds.  Although, the Drafting Team has not spent a lot
of time discussing this topic, it does agree with the notion that it is
making this recommendation as one intended to apply in all future
rounds, but also recognizes that like all other aspects of the new gTLD
program, these protections may be reviewed by the ICANN community should
it desire to do so.

With:

Recommendation 3:   Protections should apply to the first round only.

            In light of the possible need to consider other
international organizations or make the above recommendations more
generic, and light of unease in parts of the committee, it is
recommended that the above changes to the Applicant Guidebook apply to
the first round only.

Alan

At 26/03/2012 08:42 AM, Neuman, Jeff wrote:

All,

The Drafting Team discussed possible amendments to the IOC/RCRC motion
last week during its regularly scheduled meeting.  I am not sure if
those will be proposed or not by some members of the Council, so I guess
we will just wait and see.  There are two changes I would like to see
which is more of clean-up administrative changes.  Because of (i) the
discussions in Costa Rica where changes were made to recommendation 2 to
limit the number of languages as opposed to the version proposed on
March 2nd, and (ii) the Board already met on March 16th,  I propose
making the following changes:

First Resolved Clause
Resolved, that the GNSO Council adopts the following three
recommendations from the IOC/RC Drafting Team’s three recommendations as
described in its Proposal for the protection of IOC and RCRC names at
the top level as provided in
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/ioc-rcrc-proposal-02mar12-en.pdf; namely:

Last Resolved Clause
Resolved, that the GNSO submits this proposed solution for Board
consideration and adoption at its 16 March 2012 next meeting in Costa
Rica as a recommended solution to implement Board Resolution
2011.06.20.01 for implementation in the first round of new gTLD
applications.

Thanks.

Jeffrey J. Neuman
Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs
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