critical time for ICANN's new gtld policy

[Robert Guerra]

I'll be in San Juan.

a notice of disclosure - icann will likely be paying my way as i'm
involved in the North American (NA) ralo formation process. Those
interested in tracking the NA ralo process can find more details here:

http://www.icannwiki.org/The_North_American_Regional_At-
Large_Organization

regards

Robert

On 13-May-07, at 3:55 PM, Robin Gross wrote:

> See the below email from ICANN on the next steps fort the proposed
> new gtld policy.
>
> 7 June has been given as the deadline for submitting a constituency
> statement on the draft new gtld policy.
>
> The San Juan meeting is critical for us to try to reform the new
> gtld policy, which expands trademark rights and proposes for ICANN
> to censor new domain names that include controversial ideas.   NCUC
> is holding a workshop at the meeting discuss this issue with the
> ICANN community.
>
> Who will be in San Juan?  (I plan to.)
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[gtld-council] PDP Dec 05: Updated Work Program
> Date: 	Sat, 12 May 2007 09:31:09 +0200
> From: 	Liz Williams <liz.williams at icann.org>
> To: 	gtld-council at gnso.icann.org
>
>
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> The work of the GNSO Committee on new TLDs has been continuing
> since the Lisbon meeting most notably with redrafting the Final
> Report to include all the Lisbon inputs; completing the work of the
> RN and PRO WGs and maintaining the internal implementation planning
> that ICANN staff have been involved with for many months.
> Particular work has been done on dispute resolution models to deal
> with contention between applicants and to developing objection
> resolution models where there are objections to an application or
> applicant.
>
> In terms of the next steps for the work of the Committee, an
> updated work plan is set out below.
> 1.  Please read the attached simplified document which sets out the
> Principles, proposed Recommendations and Implementation Guidelines
> and prepare for each of your Constituencies an "impact statement"
> which addresses the following guidelines.  Note that it includes
> reference to the GAC Principles as well as to ICANN's Mission and
> Core Values.
>
> 2.  Refer to Section 11 of the GNSO Policy Development Bylaws which
> talks about the impact on constituencies of the proposed policy
> recommendations (http://www.icann.org/general/archive-bylaws/
> bylaws-28feb06.htm#AnnexA).  The Council Report to the Board needs
> to include the following:
> /The Staff Manager will be present at the final meeting of the
> Council, and will have five (5) calendar days after the meeting to
> incorporate the views of the Council into a report to be submitted
> to the Board (the "Board Report"). The Board Report must contain at
> least the following:/
>
> /a. A clear statement of any Supermajority Vote recommendation of
> the Council;/
>
> /b. If a Supermajority Vote was not reached, a clear statement of
> all positions held by Council members. Each statement should
> clearly indicate (i) the reasons underlying each position and (ii)
> the constituency(ies) that held the position;/
>
> /c. An analysis of how the issue would affect each constituency,
> including any financial impact on the constituency;/
>
> /d. An analysis of the period of time that would likely be
> necessary to implement the policy;/
>
> /e. The advice of any outside advisors relied upon, which should be
> accompanied by a detailed statement of the advisor's (i)
> qualifications and relevant experience; and (ii) potential
> conflicts of interest;/
>
> /f. The Final Report submitted to the Council; and/
>
> /g. A copy of the minutes of the Council deliberation on the policy
> issue, including the all opinions expressed during such
> deliberation, accompanied by a description of who expressed such
> opinions./
>
>
> 3.  A meeting of the GNSO Committee is proposed for 7 June to
> review the proposed recommendations  for the Final  Report.
>
> 4.  The Final Report to the Council will be completed after the San
> Juan meeting to enable the Chairs of the Reserved Names Working
> Group and the Protecting the Rights of Others Working Group to
> present their Final Reports to the Committee on Saturday 23 June.
>
> 5.  Preparations are underway for the 24 June GNSO GAC session at
> which we will have another information exchange with GAC members
> about how their principles have been reflected in Committee's
> output. 6. Schedule a Council teleconference after the San Juan
> meeting to formally vote on the Recommendations in the Final Report.
>
> Of course, any questions or clarifications, please ask.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Liz
> .....................................................
>
> Liz Williams
> Senior Policy Counselor
> ICANN - Brussels
> +32 2 234 7874 tel
> +32 2 234 7848 fax
> +32 497 07 4243 mob
>
> <GNSORecomOverview11May2007.doc>
>
>