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WHEREAS, on 18 October 2011 the OTF DT provided to the GNSO Council a revised Draft Charterhttp://gnso.icann.org/drafts/otf-draft-charter-18oct11-en.pdf
based on comments it received;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:

Wiki MarkupRESOLVED, that the GNSO Council approves the Draft Charter \ [http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/otf-draft-charter-18oct11-en.pdf\]\], thanks the OTF DT for its efforts on this important initiative, and dissolves the OTF DT;

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the GNSO Council requests staff to seek volunteers for Chair and Vice Chair of the OTF.

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Whereas the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group submitted a final report the GNSO Council on 29 May 2010 (see http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/rap-wg-final-report-29may10-en.pdf), recommending an issue report on the current state of the UDRP considering both (a) How the UDRP has addressed the problem of cybersquatting to date, and any insufficiencies/inequalities associated with the process, and (b) Whether the definition of cybersquatting inherent within the existing UDRP language needs to be reviewed or updated, and

Wiki MarkupWhereas, on February 3, 2011, the GNSO Council requested an Issues Report in accordance with the recommendations of the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group \ [LINK\], and \\

Wiki MarkupWhereas, a Preliminary Issue Report was published on 27 May 2011 \ [LINK\] and series of webinars and workshops were held soliciting public comment to allow for the ICANN community to provide feedback on the analysis and recommendations contained therein, and \\

Wiki MarkupWhereas, a Final Issue Report was published on 3 October 2011 \ [LINK\] in which ICANN staff recommended the GNSO Council consider the “perspective of the majority of the ICANN community, and the advice of the Government Advisory Committee (GAC), and the At-Large Advisory Committee” and that “a PDP be delayed until after the New gTLD Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) has been in operation for at least eighteen months. . . \ [to\] allow the policy process to be informed by data regarding the effectiveness of the URS, which was modeled on the UDRP, to address the problem of cybersquatting.” \\

RESOLVED, that the GNSO approved the initiation of a PDP and the establishment of a Working Group on recommendation #7 of the IRTP Part B Working Group concerning the requirement to lock a domain name subject to UDRP proceedings, which the GNSO Council at its meeting on 22 June 2011 received and agreed to consider when it takes up consideration of the Final Issue Report on the Current State of the UDRP.

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