critical time for ICANN's new gtld policy

[Robin Gross]

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

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