[council] Proposed Motion on RAA

[Wendy Seltzer]

Thank you Thomas and Jonathan,
I'll look forward to our discussion in Beijing.  (Jonathan, I hope your
flight makes it!)

--Wendy

On 04/03/2013 08:41 AM, Thomas Rickert wrote:
> I am happy to second the motion!
> 
> Thomas
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> Am 03.04.2013 um 13:27 schrieb "Jonathan Robinson" <jonathan.robinson at ipracon.com>:
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>>
>> Thanks Wendy,
>>
>> Technically, this just missed the deadline but personally I have no
>> objections on this basis.
>> Providing no objections are received, I suggest we proceed as though it did
>> not miss the deadline.
>>
>> Do we have a second for this motion?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On
>> Behalf Of Wendy Seltzer
>> Sent: 03 April 2013 01:28
>> To: Council GNSO
>> Subject: [council] Proposed Motion on RAA
>>
>>
>> I'd like to propose the following motion for the Beijing meeting (resending
>> from the correct address):
>>
>> Whereas the most recently posted draft Registrar Accreditation Agreement
>> (RAA) has raised serious concerns of policy among most of the stakeholder
>> groups in the GNSO [see Minutes of March call];
>>
>> Whereas ICANN negotiators have held it out as a blocker to the
>> implementation of the New gTLD Program;
>>
>> Resolved, Council recommends that ICANN permit Registrars to extend the
>> rights and obligations in the current RAA and its renewals to new gTLDs
>> until such time as the GNSO adopts a consensus supporting the policy changes
>> in any proposed new RAA.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Wendy
>>
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>> Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
>> Harvard University Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society
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