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Mary and all,<div><br></div><div>You are right that the issue of a Registrants' Rights Charter is of significant interest to the constituency, and has been something we have been calling for for quite awhile, so I'm glad to see the GNSO is taking some positive action on this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like a Drafting Team will be created within 30 days of the Board approving the RAA Amendments. Has that happened yet? (When is it expected to happen?)</div><div><br></div><div>We will need several volunteers to participate on the Drafting Team once it is established, so I hope people will consider becoming involved in this initiative and contributing their time and energy to the DT. </div><div><br></div><div>It would also be good to get some discussion going on the list as to what we (as the noncommercial users) would like to see in this Charter. Surely every constituency will come to the Drafting Team with a few key elements each would like to see in the Charter. </div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas or suggestions from anyone as to what ought to belong in an ICANN Registrants' Rights Charter? Should we consider parameters or other guidance for criteria to include in such a Charter? This is a very big and open-ended question at this point -- let's try to flesh it out and give it some definition.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Mary Wong wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div>[...]</div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"> <div>** The action to be implemented that I think will be of interest to NCUC members relates to the motion passed in March on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). This requires a Drafting Team to be formed to draft a Registrants' Rights Charter by July 31 - as the proposed Charter was a primary reason why the 3 NCUC Councillors voted in favor of the RAA amendments, we believe this is an Action Item that NCUC members should get involved in. Please let us know if you are interested.</div> <div> </div> <div>The Thursday meeting agenda and further details can be found here: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-26mar09.shtml">http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-26mar09.shtml</a></div> <div> </div> <div><br></div><div></div></blockquote></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><u><b>Item 6 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) Motion Action Items (Council) </b></u><b>(10 mins)</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Resolution approved on 4 March:<br> <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/">http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/</a><br> Resolved:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in <br> <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.pdf</a><br> and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March 6, 2009;</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm#09">http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm#09</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later than July 31 2009; and</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the RAA and to identify those on which further action may be desirable. The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later than July 31, 2009.</font></p><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>