Link for audio stream and GNSO Council Agenda for 28 October 2010 at 20 UTC
Robin Gross
robin at IPJUSTICE.ORG
Wed Oct 27 06:57:36 CEST 2010
> Dear All,
>
> Reminder: The audio stream for the Council meeting will be located at:
> http://stream.icann.org:8000/gnso.m3u
> Please distribute this link to your Stakeholder Groups and
> Constituencies
>
> Please find the updated GNSO Council Agenda for 28 October 2010 at
> 20 UTC.
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-council-28oct10-en.htm
> https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?
> proposed_agenda_28_october_2010
>
> The updates items are :
>
> Item 3: Election of Council Chair & Vice Chairs (15 minutes)
>
> Item 4: Whois Studies (15 minutes)
>
> Item 7: Planning for Cartagena Meetings (15 minutes)
>
> 7.1 Overview of plans/schedule (Stéphane Van Gelder, Glen de Saint
> Géry)
> http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/gnso-draft-agenda-cartagena-26oct10-
> en.pdf
>
> Item 9: Other Business (5 Minutes)
>
> 9.1 Final Report on Proposals for Improvements to the Registrar
> Accreditation Agreement
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/issues/raa/raa-improvements-proposal-final-
> report-18oct01-en.pdf
>
>
> Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting 28 October 2010.
>
> This agenda was established according to the GNSO Council Operating
> Procedures approved 5 August 2010 for the GNSO Council.
> http://gnso.icann.org/council/gnso-op-procedures-05aug10-en.pdf
>
> For convenience:
>
> * An excerpt of the ICANN Bylaws defining the voting thresholds is
> provided in Appendix 1 at the end of this agenda.
> * An excerpt from the Council Operating Procedures defining the
> absentee voting procedures is provided in Appendix 2 at the end of
> this agenda.
>
> Meeting Time 20:00 UTC
>
> See the following and http://www.timeanddate.com/ for other times:
>
> 13:00 PDT; 15:00 CDT; 16:00 EST; 17:00 Buenos Aires; 17:00 Brazil;
> 22:00 CET; 24:00 Moscow
>
> Friday, 29 October
> 01:00 Pakistan; 04:00 Hong Kong; 05:00 Tokyo, 07:00 Melbourne
>
> Dial-in numbers will be sent individually to Council members.
> Councilors should notify the GNSO Secretariat in advance if a dial
> out call is needed.
>
> GNSO Council meeting audiocast
>
> http://stream.icann.org:8000/gnso.m3u
>
> Item 1: Administrative matters (15 minutes)
>
> 1.1 Roll call of Council members and polling for Disclosures of
> Interest
>
> • Per the GNSO Operating Procedures, Section 5.4, we are required
> to poll Councilors regarding “any direct or indirect interests that
> may affect a Relevant Party’s judgment on an issue that is under
> review, consideration, or discussion” in this meeting.
> Here is the definition provided in the procedures:
>
> “Disclosure of Interest: Relevant to a specific issue at a specific
> time. A written statement made by a Relevant Party of direct and
> indirect interests that may be commercial (e.g. monetary payment)
> or non-commercial (e.g. non-tangible benefit such as publicity,
> political or academic visibility) and may affect, or be perceived
> to affect, the Relevant Party's judgment on a specific issue.”
>
> The main issues for this meeting are
>
> GNSO Prioritization
> Election Procedures for Council Chair & Vice Chairs
> Whois Studies
> Voting Procedures when Councilors are absent &/or must abstain
> Disclosure of Interest Procedures
>
> 1.2 Update any statements of interest
>
> Note that revised SoI"s were received from:
>
> Terry Davis
> David Taylor
>
> 1.3 Review/amend agenda
>
> 1.4. Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meeting
> per the GNSO Operating Procedures:
> • 7 October 2010 meeting minutes – Scheduled for approval on 28
> October 2010.
>
> Item 2: GNSO Project Prioritization (20 minutes)
>
> 2.1 Refer to posted project ratings:
> http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-work-prioritization-project-list-
> value-ratings-23jun10-en.pdf
>
> 2.2 Key points made in the 15 July Council meeting (from meeting
> minutes):
>
>
> • “. . . not a useful exercise, not much was learnt, should not
> proceed further with the prioritization exercise.”
> • “. . . spending more time on the exercise will not accomplish
> useful results.”
> • “It was a difficult exercise, policy matters were not prioritized
> and the core issue, management of the workload, still has not been
> resolved.”
> • “The exercise was intended as a first step and not intended to
> solve the workload management; other steps are needed. The exercise
> contributed an important degree of common awareness and dissent to
> the group.”
> • “The prioritization process could be improved with further input
> from the Councilors and stakeholder groups.”
> • “The exercise is important and informative from a staff
> perspective and the Council needs to look at a two-step process
> going forward: step one - form a small team to improve the process
> used to date drawing on input received; step two - develop a
> process to manage the workload with input from staff of the
> resources being used to support each of the working groups, which
> will reflect both staff and community efforts.”
> • “Support was expressed for continuing the prioritization work,
> but linking it to the overall ICANN Staff and Community workload
> and to the Budget process.”
> • “The question of available resources should be looked at in
> context. The Vertical Integration working group as an example of
> one that would not normally have commenced with all the work before
> Council, yet it did and the community resources were available.”
> • “Some believe that work should be prioritized but the methodology
> chosen is not the most appropriate or efficient.”
>
>
> 2.3 Next Steps
>
> • Staff Utilization Analysis (Liz Gasster)
> Refer to:
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/gnso-council-resource-
> management-policy-staff-utilization-28sep10-en.pdf
>
> • Results of Adobe Connect Poll regarding possible next steps:
>
>
> o Option 1: Spend no more time on prioritization - 5 votes (33%)
> o Option 2: Develop a plan for using the results to manage the
> workload in the near term - 2 votes (13%)
> o Option 3: Form a drafting team with the task of developing a new
> process - 0 votes (0%)
> o Option 4: Form a drafting team with the task of improving the
> process - 1 vote (7%)
> o Option 5: Other? (including combinations of options 2, 3, and or
> 4) - 7 votes (47%)
>
> • Discussion?
> • Action Items
>
> Item 3: Election of Council Chair & Vice Chairs (15 minutes)
>
> Refer to proposed procedures:
> http://gnso.icann.org/elections/draft-election-procedures-2010.htm
>
> 3.1 Brief overview of procedures (Chuck Gomes)
>
> 3.2 Discussion
>
> 3.3 Edits?
>
> 3.4 Any objections to using the procedures for this election cycle?
>
> 3.5 Should we consider referring the election procedures to the OSC
> & GCOT for further review with the goal of starting the chair
> election process earlier to increase the chances of the chair being
> elected before the vice chairs?
>
> Item 4: Whois Studies (15 minutes)
>
> 4.1 Status Report and presentation on Whois Studies (Liz Gasster)
> http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/presentation-whois-studies-
> oct10-en.pdf
>
>
> • Refer to redline version of Proxy/Privacy Reveal study (Study 4)
> RFP at
> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-29sep10-en.htm
>
>
> 4.2 Staff analysis of Study #3 -- WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Abuse
> (Liz Gasster)
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/gnso-whois-pp-abuse-studies-
> report-05oct10-en.pdf
>
> 4.3 Discussion
>
> 4.4 Next steps?
>
> Item 5: Voting Procedures when Councilors are absent &/or must
> abstain (25 minutes)
>
> 5.1 Overview (Ken Bour, Staff; Ray Fassett, GNSO Council Operations
> Work Team (GCOT) Chair)
>
> 5.2 Discussion
>
> 5.3 Report from Operations Steering Committee/ GNSO Council
> Operations Work Team (OSC/GCOT) (Philip Sheppard, OSC Chair; Ray
> Fassett)
>
> 5.4 Next steps?
>
> Item 6: Disclosure of Interest Procedures (15 minutes)
>
> 6.1 Report from OSC/GCOT (Philip Sheppard, Ray Fassett)
>
> 6.2 Discussion
>
> 6.3 Next steps?
>
> Item 7: Planning for Cartagena Meetings (15 minutes)
>
> 7.1 Overview of plans/schedule (Stéphane Van Gelder, Glen de Saint
> Géry)
> http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/gnso-draft-agenda-cartagena-26oct10-
> en.pdf
>
> 7.2 Next steps?
>
> Item 8: Status of Continued Action Items (10 Minutes)
>
> 8.1 Drafting team for draft DNS-CERT/SSR WG charter (Chuck Gomes)
>
> 8.2 Standing committee to monitor GNSO Improvements implementation
> (Glen de Saint Géry)
>
>
> • Volunteers to date: Wolf-Ulrich Knoben (ISCPC), Tatyana
> Khramtsova (RrSG), Ray Fassett (RySG), Avri Doria (NCSG), Rudi
> Vansnick (NCSG), Philip Sheppard (CBUC)
> • Feedback from Steering Committees (Rob Hoggarth)
> • Question raised regarding GNSO Operating Procedures: Should the
> concerns about the newly approved disclosure of interest
> requirements be dealt with by the OSC & GCOT or by the standing
> committee?
> • Next steps? Charter?
>
>
> 8.3 Progress of House/SG Elections
>
> • Councilors
> • Chair & Vice Chair Nominations
> • NCA Assignments
>
> Item 9: Other Business (5 Minutes)
>
> 9.1 Final Report on Proposals for Improvements to the Registrar
> Accreditation Agreement
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/issues/raa/raa-improvements-proposal-final-
> report-18oct01-en.pdf
>
> Appendix 1: GNSO Council Voting Thresholds (ICANN Bylaws, Article
> X, Section 3)
>
> 9. Except as otherwise specified in these Bylaws, Annex A hereto,
> or the GNSO Operating Procedures, the default threshold to pass a
> GNSO Council motion or other voting action requires a simple
> majority vote of each House. The voting thresholds described below
> shall apply to the following GNSO actions:
> 1. Create an Issues Report: requires an affirmative vote of more
> than 25% vote of each House or majority of one House;
> 2. Initiate a Policy Development Process (“PDP”) Within Scope (as
> described in Annex A): requires an affirmative vote of more than
> 33% of each House or more than 66% of one House;
> 3. Initiate a PDP Not Within Scope: requires an affirmative vote of
> more than 75% of one House and a majority of the other House (“GNSO
> Supermajority”);
> 4. Approve a PDP Recommendation Without a GNSO Supermajority:
> requires an affirmative vote of a majority of each House and
> further requires that one GNSO Council member representative of at
> least 3 of the 4 Stakeholder Groups supports the Recommendation;
> 5. Approve a PDP Recommendation With a GNSO Supermajority: requires
> an affirmative vote of a GNSO Supermajority; and
> 6. Approve a PDP Recommendation Imposing New Obligations on Certain
> Contracting Parties: where an ICANN contract provision specifies
> that “a two-thirds vote of the council” demonstrates the presence
> of a consensus, the GNSO Supermajority vote threshold will have to
> be met or exceeded with respect to any contracting party affected
> by such contract provision.
>
> Appendix 2: Absentee Voting Procedures (Council Operating
> Procedures 4.4)
>
> Members that are absent from a meeting at the time of a vote on the
> following items may vote by absentee ballot:
> 1. Initiate a policy development process;
> 2. Forward a policy recommendation to the Board;
> 3. Recommend amendments to the ICANN Bylaws;
> 4. Fill a position open for election.
>
> The GNSO Secretariat will provide reasonable means for transmitting
> and authenticating absentee ballots, which could include voting by
> telephone, e- mail, or web-based interface. Absentee ballots must
> be submitted within 72 hours following the start of the meeting in
> which a vote is initiated, except that, in exceptional
> circumstances announced at the time of the vote, the Chair may
> reduce this time to 24 hours or extend the time to 7 days. There
> must be a quorum for the meeting in which the vote is initiated.
> ________________________________________
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> ________________________________________
> The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October 2010, 2:00 or 3:00
> local time (with exceptions)
>
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat
> gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
>
>
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