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Proposed GNSO Council Agenda 27 March 2008

This agenda was established according to the Rules of Procedure for the GNSO Council

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00 - see below for local times
(12:00 Los Angeles, 15:00 Washington DC, 19:00 London, 20:00 Brussels, 06:00 Melbourne, next day)

Avri Doria will be chairing the GNSO Council meeting
Scheduled time for meeting 120 minutes.
Dial-in numbers sent individually to Council members.

Item 0: Roll call of Council members (5 mins)

Item 1: Update any statements of interest (5 mins)

Item 2: Review/amend agenda (5 mins)

move item 12 to just after 4

Item 3: Approve GNSO minutes of 31 January 2008 (5 mins)

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04828.html

Motion: Chuck Gomes
Second: Adrian Kinderis

Item 4: Confirm Election Results for ICANN Board seat 14 (5 mins)

  • Please check your vote against your code

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04814.html

Motion: Avri Doria
Second: Tom Keller

Unanimous acceptance

Item 12: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (10 Min)

5.1 Discuss feedback from Board on new gTLD process

  • Is there to be a Face to Face meeting? What are the details? Are they acceptable to the council?

Item 6: IDNC update - Edmon Chung (10 mins)

Item 7: GNSO - ccNSO relations (10 mins)

  • Discuss plans for meeting with them in Paris.
    • Meeting Thursday Afternoon?
    • Council - Council or SO - SO?

No Issue with SO-SO if this is possible given time and space constraints.

Item 8: GNSO Improvements - Discuss planning group (20 mins)

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04821.html

  • discuss criteria for adding members to the planning group
    • 2-3 constituency members (possibly from council) who have organizational capability and represent diverse views
    • 1 from each constituency that wishes to add someone + interested nomcom appointees
    • some other formula
  • appoint members to initial planning group
  • Names that have been put forward (in order received)
    • Ken Stubbs (RyC) - withdrew in favor
    • Olga Cavalli (NA)
    • Philip Sheppard (BC)
    • Milton Mueller, Robin Gross (NCUC)
    • Ute Decker (IPC)
    • Wolf Ulrich (ISPC)
    • (RC)

Decision on 1 representative per constituency, with the possiblity of allowing a constituency to have 2 members share the work.

Item 9: Discuss Whois report - Start discussions on what to ask for a bid on. (20 mins)

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-study-suggestion-report-25feb08.pdf

Motion: Chuck Gomes
Second: Kristina Rosette

Whereas:
On 31 October 2007 the Council passed a motion to “. . . initiate the following sequential actions: 1) Council shall provide additional definition regarding the potential data gathering and study requirements 2) staff shall provide the Council with rough cost estimates for various components of data gathering and studies no later than February 15th, 2008; 3) the Council will decide what data gathering and studies would be pursued; and 4) staff will perform the resulting data gathering and studies and report the results back to the Council” (resolution 20071031-3)
On 6 December 2007 the Council initiated formation of a group of volunteers to develop a proposed “format to solicit what studies should be undertaken”
On 20 December 2007 the Council reviewed and discussed the WHOIS template developed by the group and approved it with one additional column under potential sources of data, asking proposers to comment on the challenges of sourcing that data
From 8 January through 15 February 2008 a public comment period was held soliciting suggestions from the community for specific topics of study on WHOIS that community stakeholders recommend be conducted
A report titled ‘Report on Public Suggestions on Further Studies of WHOIS’ and dated 25 February 2008 summarized the study suggestions and comments received during the public comment period (http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-study-suggestion-report-25feb08.pdf )
Resolve to form a group of volunteers to:
1. Review and discuss the ‘Report on Public Suggestions on Further Studies of WHOIS’
2. Develop a proposed list, if any, of recommended studies for which ICANN staff will be asked to provide cost estimates to the Council
3. Deliver the list of recommendations with supporting rationale not later than 24 April 2008.

Passed Unanimously

Item 10: Report on Single-Character Domain Names at the second -level (20 mins)

  • Overview by Patrick
  • Determine next steps

ICANN synthesis on Single-Character Domain Names at the Second-Level

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-synthesis-on-sldns-27feb08.pdf

Discussion tabled until next meeting.

Item 11: Vote on Electronic Voting (15 mins)

Absentee voting bylaw amendment

Motion by: Philip Sheppard
Seconded: Cyril Chua, Bilal Beiram

Whereas
Council members are from time to time disenfranchised from voting by the current ICANN
by-laws,
Council requests the Board to adopt the following change to the bylaws drafted by the ICANN
general council's office to permit absentee voting in certain specific circumstances.

Add to:ICANN Bylaws ARTICLE X: Section 3. 8

c. Absentee voting. Members that are absent from a meeting at the time of a vote on whether
to initiate a PDP, forward a policy recommendation to the Board, or fill a position open for
election may vote by absentee ballot. The GNSO Secretariat will provide reasonable means
for transmitting and authenticating absentee ballots, which could include voting by
telephone, e-mail, or web-based interface. Absentee ballots must be submitted within 72
hours after the start of the meeting in which a vote is initiated, except that in
exceptional circumstances announced at the time of the vote the Chair may reduce this time
to 24 hours or extend the time to 7 days.

http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/absentee-voting-bylaw-amendment-15feb08.pdf

Passed Unanimously with 21 votes for.

Moved to after 4 Item 12: Inter-Reigistrar Transfer Policy (10 Min)

WDPRS Issue

Arrival times for Face to face meeting

  • Glen to make the call based on email statements of preference

Item 14: Action Item Review (5 mins)

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/pending-action-list.pdf

The GNSO Council will meet on Thursday 27 March 2008, at 15:00
UTC.
Please note the change in time to 15:00 UTC
(See below for full list of times).

The proposed agenda for the teleconference can be directly viewed at:
http://www.gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-27mar08.shtml

Please let me have your telephone numbers if you would like the operator
to call you.

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.

Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen

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