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Current Status
ICANN-accredited registrars and ICANN commenced a series of direct bilateral negotiations to amend and update the current Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) in November, 2011. A progress report was published prior to the ICANN Costa Rica meeting describing the status as of 1 March 2012.
The RAA negotiations have resumed and are currently underway. The tentative schedule of RAA negotiation meetings is as follows:
- May 10 teleconference
- May 16 full day teleconference
- May 23-24 two full day teleconferences
- May 25 teleconference
- May 30 full day teleconference
- June 1 teleconference
Recent developments:
- Registrars and Staff have been reviewing & analyzing redlined versions of the RAA
- Staff published an updated status report of the RAA Drafting Team's recommended amendment topics as of 1 March 2012.
- Correspondence delivered from the Registrar Stakeholder Group on the status of the negotiations
- Law enforcement representatives produced updates to their recommendations with respect to two issues:
These negotiations are currently underway.
Negotiation Goals/Objectives
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The Registrars Stakeholder Group and ICANN announced in Dakar the immediate commencement of negotiations on the RAA. These negotiations will occur regularly with the goal of issuing agreed amendments to the RAA for consideration by the ICANN Board at ICANN's Costa Rica Meeting..
Current Status
In advance of the Prague Meeting,on 4 June 2012, ICANN posted a group of documents on the status of negotiation of amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA).
These documents note that while ICANN and the Registrars have made progress in the negotiations, the negotiations are not complete and there remain key areas of difference. Of highest priority for ICANN are the areas of Whois verification and data retention requirements, where ICANN and Registrars were not able to agree on certain aspects of the law enforcement recommendations. Because these two areas are so important, ICANN and the registrars were not able to post consolidated, negotiated amendments in advance of the Prague meeting. The RAA Negotiations Summary Memorandum posted on 4 June 2012 explains this more fully; the Draft RAA reflects ICANN's most recent proposal as of 4 June 2012.
Recent developments
- Staff published a status report reflecting the status of the law enforcement recommendations ass of 1 March 2012, in advance of the Costa Rica Meeting
- Staff publshed an updated status report of the RAA Drafting Team's recommended amendment topics as of 1 March 2012.
- Correspondence delivered from the Registrar Stakeholder Group on the status of the negotiations
- Law enforcement representatives produced updates to their recommendations with respect to two issues:
More Information
- The ICANN Board’s Dakar resolution on the RAA is posted at: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-28oct11-en.htm#7
- To review the Final Report on Improvements to the RAA, please see: http://gnso.icann.org/issues/raa/raa-improvements-proposal-final-report-18oct01-en.pdf
- To review the Staff Discussion Paper published prior to Dakar, please see: http://gnso.icann.org/issues/final-raa-discussion-paper-13oct11-en.pdf
- To learn more about the RAA, please refer to the Non-Lawyers Guide to the RAA, posted at: http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/non-lawyers-guide-to-ra-agreement-15feb10-en.htm
- Reports of each of the RAA meetings and discussion of amendment topics addressed at each meeting will be posted on separate WIKI pages attached to this Home Page.
- The GNSO Final Issue Report delivered by Staff in response to the Board Dakar Resolution identifies the policy avenues for addressing these amendment topics.
- A Status Report on the RAA Negotiations was published on the ICANN website on 1 March 2012, at http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01mar12-en.htm
- An updated Status Report on the RAA Drafting Team recommendations as of 1 March 2012
Comments Requested at the ICANN Prague Session
- Date: Monday 25 June 2012 from 11:00-12:30
- Staff is seeking feedback on the discussion topics identified in the RAA Summary Negotiations Memo to help inform the community discussion in Prague
- If you have general feedback you'd like to provide, please provide them by submitting comments below.
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