[registrars] FW: [council] Regarding Item 4: Proposed bylaws amendment to improve transparency with respect to contract approvals

[Bruce Tonkin]

To: Council GNSO
Subject: Re: [council] Regarding Item 4: Proposed bylaws amendment to
improve transparency with respect to contract approvals

Bruce,

Attached is a draft proposal for consideration by the GNSO Council in
response to the Council's request to "improve transparency with respect
to contract approvals."  In preparing this language our goal was to
attempt to meet the GNSO's needs, while not (inadvertently) requiring
the Board to post every consulting contract or grammar correction to a
registry agreement, etc.  This proposed new Bylaws provision would
require ICANN to notify the GNSO Council and allow for at least a 21-day
public comment period before approving any GTLD (sponsored or
unsponsored) registry or registrar agreement that is substantially
different from other past ICANN agreements:

> "With respect to any proposed GTLD registry or registrar agreement 
> that includes material contractual provisions that substantially 
> differ from other past ICANN agreements, ICANN will notify the GNSO 
> Council and post the proposed agreement with a public comment forum on

> the ICANN website at least twenty-one days (and if practical,
> longer) prior to any final approval of the agreement."

I look forward to working with you in order to finalize this effort as
quickly as possible.  Please feel free to let me know if you have any
questions or if I can be of any other assistance.

Best Regards,
Daniel Halloran
Deputy General Counsel
ICANN


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