Proposed Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting 7 Oct 2010 & link to audiocast for live streaming

Robin Gross robin at IPJUSTICE.ORG
Wed Sep 22 00:35:09 CEST 2010


FYI:

GNSO Council meeting audiocast

http://stream.icann.org:8000/gnso.m3u


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
> Date: September 21, 2010 3:18:33 PM PDT
> To: liaison6c <liaison6c at gnso.icann.org>
> Subject: [liaison6c] Proposed  Agenda for GNSO Council Meeting 7  
> October 2010.
>
> Please distribute to the Stakeholder Group and Constituency members!
> Dear All,
>
> Please find the proposed GNSO Council Agenda for the meeting on  
> Thursday, 7 October at 15:00 UTC below and also posted at:
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-council-07oct10-en.htm
>
> https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi? 
> proposed_agenda_7_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 15:00 UTC
>
> See the following and http://www.timeanddate.com/ for other times:
> 08:00 PDT; 10:00 CDT; 11:00 EST; 12:00 Buenos Aires; 12:00 Brazil;  
> 17:00 CET; 19:00 Moscow, 20:00 Karachi, 23:00 Hong Kong,
>
> Friday, 8 October
> 00:00 Tokyo, 01:00 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 proecedures:
>
> “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:
> New gTLDs
> Recommendation 6 Community WG Report to the Board
> Excerpt from Draft Final Report -  New gTLD Applicant Support
> GNSO Comments regarding both of the above
> GNSO Prioritization
>
> 1.2 Update any statements of interest
>
> 1.3 Review/amend agenda
>
> 1.4. Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meeting  
> per the GNSO Operating Procedures:
> • 8 September 2010 meeting (insert link) – Scheduled for Approval  
> on 30 September 2010.
>
> Item 2: Suggested Improvements for GNSO Public Council meetings (10  
> minutes)
>
> 2.1 Proposed recommendations (Wendy Seltzer)
>
> 2 .2 Discussion
>
> Item 3: New gTLD Recommendation 6 Community WG (25 minutes)
>
> 3.1 Summary of Report (Margie Milam)
>
> 3.2 Discussion
>
> 3.3 GNSO Comments
>
> • Summary of comments on Council list to date (Margie Milam)
> • Additional comments
> • Should we submit comments from the Council or from individual SGs/ 
> Constituencies?
> • Next steps?
>
>
> o Possible Council action on 28 October (if needed)?
>
>
> 3.4 Special thanks to the Rec6 CWG and to Margie & Marika for their  
> incredible support.
>
> Item 4: Excerpt from Draft Final Report -  New gTLD Applicant  
> Support (JAS) WG (15 minutes)
>
> 4.1 Brief Summary of Report (Rafik Dammak)
>
> 4.2 Discussion
>
> 4.3 GNSO Comments
>
>
> • Should we submit comments from the Council or from individual SGs/ 
> Constituencies?
> • Next steps?
>
>
> o Possible Council action on 28 October (if needed)?
>
>
> 4.4 Special thanks to the JAS WG members
>
> Item 5: GNSO Prioritization (20 minutes)
>
> 5.1 Refer to posted project ratings:
>
> 5.2 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.”
>
>
> 5.3 Next Steps
>
> • Staff Utilization Analysis targeted for 26 August meeting (Liz  
> Gasster)
> • 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 6: Selections for the AoC SSR & Whois Policies RTs (10 minutes)
>
> 6.1 Refer to:
>
> • GNSO AoC Reviews site: http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/
> • GNSO SSR RT site: http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/dns-ssr-en.htm
> • GNSO Whois RT site: http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/whois- 
> policies-en.htm
>
>
> 6.2 Selections by Rod Beckstrom & Heather Dryden
>
>
> CSG
> NCSG
> RrSG
> RySG
> SSR Primary
> Jeff Brueggeman
> David Cake (Australia)
> Rick Wilhelm
> Ken Silva
> Whois Primary
> Susan Kawaguchi
> Kim G. Von Arx
> James Bladel
> Kathy Kleiman
> (Insert link to announcement)
>
> 6.3 Discussion?
>
> Item 7: Report from Board Retreat? (10 Minutes)
>
> 7.1 Refer to (insert link if any)
>
> 7.2 Action items?
>
> 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 (Liz Gasster)
> • Next steps? Charter?
>
>
> 8.3 High Level Progress of House/Stakeholder Group Elections
>
> • Councilors
> • Chair & Vice Chair Nominations
> • NCA Assignments
>
> 8.4 Whois Studies
>
> • Status report for Whois Studies 3 & 4 (Liz Gasster)
>
> Item 9: Other Business (5 minutes)
>
> 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.
> ________________________________________
> Local time between March and October, Summer in the NORTHERN  
> hemisphere
> ________________________________________
> Reference (Coordinated Universal Time) 15:00UTC
> ________________________________________
> California, USA (PST) UTC-8+1DST 08:00
> Cedar Rapids, USA (CDT) UTC-6+1DST 10:00
> New York/Washington DC, USA (EDT) UTC-5+1DST 11:00
> Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 12:00
> Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo Brazil UTC-3+0DST 12:00
> Dublin, Ireland (GMT) UTC+1DST 16:00
> Darmstadt, Germany (CET) UTC+1+1DST 17:00
> Paris, France (CET) UTC+1+1DST 17:00
> Moscow, Russian Federation (MSK) UTC+3+1DST 19:00
> Karachi, Pakistan UTC+5+0DST 20:00
> Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 23:00
> Tokyo, Japan UTC+9+0DST 00:00
> Melbourne/Sydney Australia (EDT) UTC+10+0DST 01:00 (Friday)
> ________________________________________
> The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of October 2010, 2:00 or 3:00  
> local time (with exceptions)
>
>   Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Glen
>
>
>
>
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat
> gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
>
>




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